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Wednesday
Dec042019

WORLD CINEMA / BERLIN SCI-FI FILMFEST FETES M.A.J.I.C., THE TANGLE IN 2019 HONOURS ROLL

The vast 2019 program made narrowing down the best of the fest a tough gig, but judges and organisers of this year's Berlin Sci-fi Filmfest have done a cracking job with their final choices (Click here

Saturday
Nov302019

FEATURES / THE PUBLIC LIFE OF EMILIO ESTEVEZ

One the biggest stars of his generation is now making smart, heartfelt, humanistic dramas that speak to a better America. Emilio Estevez talks about his latest film, The Public (Click here)

Friday
Nov222019

WORLD CINEMA / PARASITE, BEANPOLE LEAD HONOUREES AT 2019 ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN AWARDS

The film industries of Korea and Russia took key trophies, but everyone got a ribbon in an even spread of honourees at last night's 13th Asia Pacific Screen awards in Brisbane (Click here).

Wednesday
Nov202019

REVIEWS / THE UNSEEN (KAGHAZ-PAREH HA)

2019 ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN AWARDS: The plight of homeless women on the streets of Tehran, their involuntary life-long incarceration, and the patriarchal brutality that drove them their are confronted in Behzad Nalbandi's stunning stop-motion, heartbreaking documentary vision (Click here)

Monday
Nov182019

REVIEWS / STAY OUT STAY ALIVE

A PSA klaxon-call to steer clear of abandoned mines fall on five sets of deaf ears, leading to an increasing level of danger, both natural and supernatural, in debutant Dean Yurke's gripping wilderness thriller (Click here)

Monday
Nov182019

HORROR / CUT TO 20 YEARS LATER: AN ORAL HISTORY OF AUSTRALIA'S CULT SLASHER FILM

FANGORIA x MONSTER FEST 2019: The four young men behind our film sector's shot at 90's-era slasher deeconstruction revisit their cult hit as older, wiser types 20 uyears later (Click here)

Monday
Nov112019

REVIEWS / MIDWAY

Roland Emmerich's take on the turning point in the war in the Pacific is equal parts smashing combat cinema and broad B-movie tropes. So why does it work so well? (Click here)

Wednesday
Oct302019

FEATURES / THE FURIES' FINAL GIRL: THE AIRLIE DODDS INTERVIEW

FANGORIA x MONSTER FEST 2019: The star of Australia's latest horror sensation, Airlie Dodds, warmed to the positive female empowerment message the emerges from beneath the gore of Tony D'Aquinos' splatter epic (Click here

Wednesday
Oct302019

REVIEWS / BLOOD VESSEL

FANGORIA x MONSTER FEST 2019: A deserted German minesweeper, a desperate band of survivors and ancient coffins sheltering Romanian vampires. Justin Dix's Blood Vessel (geddit?) is the kind of crowdpleasing horror romp that should be made more often (Click here)

Tuesday
Oct292019

FEATURES / DARK WHISPERS, LOUD VOICES: THE WOMEN SHAPING AUSTRALIAN HORROR CINEMA.

FANGORIA x MONSTER FEST 2019: Twelve women filmmakers have pooled their collective talent for the horror anthology Dark Whispers Vol 1. The result is a glimpse into the promise that the future holds for Australian genre films (Click here)

Sunday
Oct272019

REVIEWS / SOUTH AFRICAN SPOOK HUNTER

If there's something strange in your middle-class London terrace, who ya gonna call...? (Click here

Saturday
Oct262019

BLOG / PREVIEW: 2019 VETERANS FILM FESTIVAL

2019 VETERANS FILM FESTIVAL: The people of Canberra are set for the three days of introspective war stories and full-uniform respectability (aside from the raucous non-conformity of our own The Odd Angry Shot, of course), in line with the tone of this years' Veterans Film Festival program (Click here).

Friday
Oct252019

HORROR / LARRY VAN DUYNHOVEN AND THE GUTS IT TAKES TO MAKE HORROR GREAT AGAIN

FANGORIA x MONSTER FEST 2019: The Australian sector's latest horror sensation, The Furies, gives prosthetic master Larry Van Duynhoven unprecedented access to his own deepest, darkest horror imagery. The results are...oh, boy... (Click here

Tuesday
Oct152019

REVIEWS / IN SEARCH OF DARKNESS

FANGORIA X MONSTER FEST 2019: Even at four hours, can David A. Wiener's ode to 80s horror possibly encompass the impact the decade had on genre cinema (Click here)

Monday
Oct142019

REVIEWS / WORKING WOMAN

The #MeToo revolution gets its own 'Rambo' in Orna, the harassed heroine played with grace and guts by Liron Ben Shlush in Michal Aviad's Working Woman (Click here)