Thursday, July 6, 2017 at 10:31AM 
2017 MELBOURNE DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL: For his debut feature Lunar Orbit, Patrick Buchanan captured the life, inspirations and creative impulses that have shaped the 30-year house music pioneers, The Orb, as they prepare their latest studio album (Click here)
Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 6:59PM 
2017 MELBOURNE DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL: Eight of the filmmakers bringing their latest to the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (including Play Your Gender's Stephanie Clattenburg) bring unique perspectives to the sentence-starter, "Documentary is..." (Click here)
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 at 9:18PM 
Giddy with kitschy style and camp homoeroticism, Fags in The Fast Lane is a raucous middle-finger to good taste, convention and banality. But be warned... (Click here)
Monday, June 19, 2017 at 8:04PM 
2017 SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL: Warwick Thornton scored Opening Night honours for his impassioned docu-diatribe We Don't Need a Map, a fierce but frustrating study in nationalism and indigenous tradition (Click here)
Sunday, June 18, 2017 at 5:06PM 
2017 SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL: One of the first virtual reality 'feature films' is the toy robot saga Miyubi, an 80s-set comedy-drama that employs VR dexterity with a bittersweet take on the inevitabilty of ageing (Click here)
Friday, June 16, 2017 at 8:46AM 
2017 SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL: Faith, disenfranchisement and centuries of Middle Eastern tension are just some of the elements that combine to make Holy Air such a bracing, brilliant satire of modern life in Israel. It announces the writer/director/star Shady Srour as a major international talent (Click here)
Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at 7:29AM 
Oscar-winning cinematographer Fred J. Koenekamp, the versatile DOP who soared in the era of grand Hollywood spectacle (Patton; Papillon; The Towering Inferno) passed away on May 31, aged 94 (Click here)
Sunday, June 11, 2017 at 9:38PM 
2017 REVELATION PERTH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: From alternative artist and academic Denah Johnston (pictured, left) to the great one-time-only Bond, George Lazenby, Perth's premiere film event Revelation sets a typically eclectic agenda for its 20th anniversary bash (Click here)
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 4:48PM 
2017 SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL: Need a guide to the best of the Sydney Film Festival's gazillion films? Just ask the man in charge... (Click here)
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 12:46PM 
2017 SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL: With his latest Whitney Can I Be Me stiring debate and pulling heartstrings, Nick Broomfield reflects on the emotional journey he took in compiling hours of archival footage and his own career, nearly 40 years in the making (Click here)
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 8:45AM 
2017 SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL: Although set deep in the Thai countryside, Kirsten Tan's Pop Aye explores the universal themes of longing, memory and hope within a road-trip movie framework. Critics and audiences have fallen in love with her old-man-and-an-elephant tale (Click here)
Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 8:11AM 
2017 SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL: From one of the most remote regions in Canada's Northwest Territories emerges The Sun at Midnight, a tough, tender coming-of-age drama from writer/director Kirsten Carthew (Click here)
Monday, May 29, 2017 at 7:54AM 
2017 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL: A divisive Palme d'or winner and an awards ceremony filled with headline-grabbing was always on the cards for the 70th anniversary festival's closing night (Click here)
Friday, May 26, 2017 at 8:40PM 
2017 MELBOURNE DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL: Food shortages. Greenhouse gases. The very means by which we feed the planet. Could the humble cricket, or the larvae of the black fly, or the meal worm, hold the answer to these potentially crippling environmental concerns? In The Gateway Bug, director Johanna B. Kelly advocates a return to the bug-based diet of our ancestors... (Click here)
Thursday, May 25, 2017 at 9:42AM 
2017 SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL: Six years in the making, Afghani filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat's slice-of-village-life drama Wolf and Sheep explores an outsider's perspective from within a country rife with conflict. From Kabul, the director spoke with us about her passion project... (Click here)
