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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)

Monday
Aug032020

FEATURES / FIVE MUST-SEE MIFF MOVIES

The Melbourne International Film Festival is set to soar as a digital event, ensuring that for filmlovers across the Southern state and beyond, MIFF lives on in 2020 (Click here)

Monday
Jul272020

REVIEWS / GREMLINS: A PUPPET STORY

Joe Dante's iconic 1984 creature-feature was a turning point in Hollywood film-making and the career of monster designer Chris Walas, who recounts the period in this heartwarming making-of doco (Click here)  

Tuesday
Jul212020

REVIEWS / BLACK WATER: ABYSS

Just when you thought it was safe to go swimming in the shallow, muddy estuaries of northern Australia (Ed: it never is), Andrew Traucki unleashes his latest creature feature (Click here)

Sunday
Jul192020

REVIEWS / THE VERY EXCELLENT MR. DUNDEE

One of Australia's favourite sons travels down the 'ageing celebrity' satirical path in his final film, with very mixed results (Click here)

Friday
Jul172020

HORROR / THE GENRE FESTIVALS FRONTING AUSTRALIA'S CINEMA RE-EMERGENCE

One way that patrons will come back to the nation's cinemas is with fresh, unique content, and Australia's genre film festivals are nothing if not fresh and unique (Click here)

Wednesday
Jul152020

INDUSTRY / AUSTRALIAN DIRECTORS' GUILD ANNOUNCE 2020 NOMINATIONS 

A new wave of Australian filmmaking talent has been recognised in the Director's Guild annual nomination roster (Click here)

Tuesday
Jul142020

FEATURES / PREVIEW: 2020 SCIFI FILM FESTIVAL

In a year when nothing seemed certain, the 2020 SciFi Film Festival carried on and kept calm (mostly). The event is holding firm to its August 28 launch, and here are the film's to prove it (Click here