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Wednesday
Oct072020

INDUSTRY / WARNERMEDIA AND ROADSHOW FILMS SPLIT IN DISTRIB SECTOR SHAKE-UP

The two distribution giants shared in blockbuster gamechangers like The Matrix, but Warner Bros have brought the curtain down on the decades-old distribution deal with Australia's Roadshow Films (Click here)

Saturday
Sep192020

HORROR / PREVIEW: BEYOND FEST 2020

The LA genre festival is holding fast to the physical festival format and bringing horror pics, including Charlotte Kirk in Neil Marshall's The Reckoning, back to where they belong - the drive-in theatre (Click here).

Saturday
Sep192020

REVIEWS / PACIFICO

Beyond the life-enriching power of taming a decent swell, two young men find greater meaning in life on a Latin American odyssey in Andreas Geipel's stunning, spiritual doc Pacifico (Click here)

Thursday
Sep102020

INDUSTRY / HANKS RETURNS TO OZ FOR BAZ'S ELVIS EPIC

As long as everyone adheres to pandemic protocol, Baz Luhrmann's blockbuster biopic Elvis, starring Austin Butler and Tom Hanks, will begin shooting in Queensland from September 23 (Click here)

Thursday
Sep102020

REVIEWS / OLDER

New Zealand writer/director Guy Pigden brings a seven-year production to fruition, finding love and maturity along the way, in his romantic drama, Older. (Click here)

Wednesday
Sep022020

REVIEWS / BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC

Those most excellent musical talents from San Dimas, California - Ted Theodore Logan and Bill S. Preston Esquire - are now middle-aged dudes. But the world, and also their marriages, still need saving (Click here)

Sunday
Aug302020

REVIEWS / SUPERHUMAN

The power of the mind and the force of the collective consciousness in shaping our world is examined in Caroline Cory's Superhuman (Click here)

Sunday
Aug302020

FEATURES / THE NEW BLOOD REANIMATING SYDNEY'S ORIGINAL HORROR PARTY 

After contributing for years behind the scenes, Bryn Tilly steps up to program the relaunch of Sydney's iconic shock show, A Night of Horror International Film Festival (Click here)

Sunday
Aug232020

REVIEWS / THE UNFAMILIAR

Henk Pretorious' spooky demonic/haunting low-budgeter will bulk up streaming channel's and appease the easily-pleased horror hounds (Click here

Tuesday
Aug182020

REVIEWS / THE PICKUP GAME

Thought toxic masculinity couldn't manifest itself any more insidiously? Check out The Pickup Game, a shocking insight into the 'seduction coaching' industry (Click here)

Sunday
Aug162020

REVIEWS / GRIZZLY 2: REVENGE

43 years in the making (sort of), a terrible sequel to an inexplicably popular Jaws rip-off could be the 'Great Bad Movie' weve been waiting for (Click here)

Saturday
Aug152020

BLOG / PREVIEW: 2020 SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL

Despite the shuttering of their physical event due to COVID concerns, the 14th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival forges ahead with a mammoth online program (Click here)

Tuesday
Aug112020

INDUSTRY / BABYTEETH TAKES BITE OUT OF TRANSILVANIA F.F. AWARD ROSTER 

Director Shannon Murphy (left) continues to impress festival juries with her debut feature, Babyteeth (Click here)

Thursday
Aug062020

WORLD CINEMA / KINOSCOPE STRANDS, NEW TALENT INITIATIVE FORGING AHEAD ONLINE AT SARAJEVO FILM FEST

Sarajevo is under COVID-19 conditions, but the programming and technical teams behind the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival are determined to get their line-up (including Shirley, starring Elizabeth Moss; left) to the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Click here)

Tuesday
Aug042020

INDUSTRY / VALE ROSSLYN ABERNETHY

For four decades, New Zealand-born expat Rosslyn Abernethy was arguably Australasia's greatest production manager (Click here)