WORLD CINEMA / PREVIEW: 2022 JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL

A free sidebar featuring master filmmaker Mikio Naruse, including his 1955 masterpiece Floating Clouds (pictured), is one of many highlights in this year's Japanese Film Festival (Click here)
A free sidebar featuring master filmmaker Mikio Naruse, including his 1955 masterpiece Floating Clouds (pictured), is one of many highlights in this year's Japanese Film Festival (Click here)
Returning post-COVID to a full live-event roster of screenings and sidebars, the Adelaide Film Festival hits big with audiences and filmmakers alike (Click here).
After a three year hiatus, the 2022 Palestinian Film Festival is about to unspool across Australia, led by the Opening Night film Farha (pictured), with a program of diverse and thoughtful works (Click here)
The only big-screen showing in Australia of the new Jennifer Lawrence film Causeway will launch the Veterans Film Festival, in Sydney from November 3 (Click here)
They're not perfect films, of course, but this week's new cinema releases suggest there are still some brains behind the brights lights of Hollywood (Click here)
The Sydney studios formally known as Fox host the latest blockbuster franchise reboot, Kingdom of The Planet of the Apes, featuring The Witcher actress Fraya Allen (Click here)
A new U.S. crime thriller turns tabloid rapper Machine Gun Kelly into lead actor Colson Baker, and he holds his own against Kevin Bacon and Travis Fimmel, in One Way (Click here)
Oh sure, it's scary. VERY scary. But Smile is also an interpretation of depression and cyclical trauma that will move and engage the audience like few genre works mamnage to do (Click here).
The web has gone into meltdown over Andrew Dominik's redrawing of Marilyn Monroe through anguish, bitterness and dark psychology. But is it any good, or possibly that bad? (Click here)
In a world constantly looking to the future for inspiration, the artisans and craftspeople of Suzhou honour centuries-old traditions in this beathtakingly lovely social documentary (Click here)
'Sly' Stallone and Aussie director Julius Avery combine for a super-hero pic more notable for its unfulfilled potential than anything on screen (Click here)
Is there a Hollywood director who has fallen so far off the rails than Robert Zemeckis? Exhibit A: Pinocchio, the latest live-action/CGI cash-grab from Disney (Click here)
Netflix has reworked the Resident Evil mythology into an 8-episode arc that gets the pulse rating - both for the franchise, and those brave enough to tune in (Click here)
Should we be at all surprised that the man who wrote Paddington 2 has turned a British sports hero into a pitiful buffoon? And what was Mark Rylance thinking? (Click here)
Adam Sandler pushes his 'Billy Madison' days further into the past with his latest dramatic offering, the NBA-set drama Hustle (Click here)