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Wednesday
Jun222016

REVIEWS / INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE

20 years after a united global nation fought off alien attackers, director Roland Emmerich reunites (most of) his original cast to battle a new wave of space invaders in Independence Day: Resurgence (Click here)

Tuesday
Jun212016

FEATURES / FRESH FACT-BASED FEST SET TO WARM SOUTHERN CINEPHILES

Lyndon Stone, Festival Director of the soon-to-launch Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, takes the reponsibility of representing Melbourne to the global film community as passionately as he advocates the skill of local and international fact-based filmmakers (Click here)

Saturday
Jun182016

BLOG / 11 UNFORGETTABLE MOMENTS (10 GREAT; 1 TERRIBLE) FROM THE SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL

2016 SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL: A wildly subjective recollection of the movie moments that left an impression from the 63rd Sydney Film Festival (Click here).

Wednesday
Jun152016

REVIEWS / PERSONAL SHOPPER

CANNES 2016: Kristen Stewart and director Olivier Assayas reteam to examine longing, loneliness and grief within a supernatural setting in the compelling Personal Shopper (Click here).

Sunday
Jun122016

WORLD CINEMA / ROMANIA

The nation's political and social struggle is reflected in the often bleak, hard-bitten social realism of the best of Romanian film, but the spirit of the population also emerges throughout a century of cinema (Click here).

Wednesday
Jun082016

REVIEWS / GOLDSTONE

2016 SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL: The 63rd edition gambles on a sequel and a western to open the event, but Ivan Sen's gritty, grim and fiercely compelling Goldstone proves the best festival first night in recent memory (Click here). 

Thursday
Jun022016

REVIEWS / UNIQUE ARTISTRY FINDS LOVE AT MELBOURNE DOC FEST

The artistic endeavours of a Japanese punk-rock group, an iconic Aussie band, the worst film director ever and a yacht-pop legend are examined in four films screening at the 2016 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (Click here).

Saturday
May282016

INDUSTRY / VIRTUAL HORRORS AT FOREFRONT OF NEW ERA IN STORYTELLING

CANNES 2016: An immersive haunted house experience inspired by a blockbuster film franchise convincingly confirms the legitimacy of Virtual Reality (Click here).

Thursday
May262016

FEATURES / BEAUTIFUL CREATURES: THE BRUNO DUMONT INTERVIEW.

CANNES 2016: Known for his bleak portraits of desperate humans, French director Bruno Dumont looks on the bright side of life with Ma Loute, his first comedy (complete with cannibals and in-breeding) (Click here)

Monday
May232016

FEATURES / CANNES 2016: CANNES FAVOURS PAST WINNERS WITH 2016 COMPETITION PRIZES

Festival favourites Ken Loach, Xavier Dolan and Asghar Farhadi take top honours at the 2016 Festival du Cannes (Click here)

Friday
May202016

BLOG / CANNES 2016: CAN THE QUEEN OF CANNES CONQUER THE WORLD…AGAIN?

The biggest teen star of her generation is eyeing a long term international career, if her 2016 films are any indication (Click here

Friday
May202016

HORROR / CANNES 2016: CANNES CLASSICS BOWS REFN'S RESTORATION OF BAVA BRILLIANCE 

The Cannes Classic sidebar was home to the World Premiere of Nicholas Winding Refn's restoration of Italian horro legend Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires  (Click here)

Monday
May162016

REVIEWS / CANNES 2016: RAW

The feature debut for French director Julia Ducournau is a chilling, charming, stomach-churning minor classic of the vet-students-as-cannibals sub-genre (Click here)

Sunday
May152016

REVIEWS / CANNES 2016: THE BFG

What reads as the dream-come-true triptych of the great storytellers Steven Spielberg, Roald Dahl and Disney Studios becomes something else entirely in the finished product (Click here

Saturday
May142016

REVIEWS / CANNES 2016: THE STUDENT

A Russian teen turns increasingly hostile as dogmatic Christian fundamentalism drives him towards an act of heartbreaking religious extremism in Kirill Serebrennikov's The Student. (Click here)