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Friday
Jan052018

REVIEWS / BLEEDING STEEL

Jackie Chan's wild and wobbly sci-fi extravaganza, shot in Sydney, takes the ageing action icon into some of the nuttiest terrain of his long career (Click here)

Saturday
Dec302017

BLOG / THE CLASS OF 2018: NEXT YEAR AT THE MOVIES

Determined to make up a 2.5% downturn at the 2017 box office, Hollywood has prepared a 2018 film roster aimed at bringing cashed-up patrons back to the movies (Click here)

Thursday
Dec282017

FEATURES / THE WOUND: THE JOHN TRENGROVE INTERVIEW

Johannesburg director John Trengrove challenges some ingrained perceptions of African masculinity by exploring oppressed homosexuality and tribal circumcision rites in his remarkable feature, The Wound (Inxeba) (Click here)

Tuesday
Dec192017

INDUSTRY / VALE CHRIS MURRAY

Fans, filmmakers and a global network of friends are mourning the shock passing of Chris Murray, a beloved, passionate advocate of Australian film culture (Click here).

Saturday
Dec162017

FEATURES / PREVIEW: 2018 SCREENWAVE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

SWIFF 2018: As summer film festival season is in full swing and Screenwave International Film Festival, which runs January 10-25 in Coffs Harbour, has unveiled it's most daring slate of international films, local works and, of course, surf docs in its 3 year history (Click here)

Friday
Dec152017

BLOG / SCREEN-SPACE’S BEST (& WORST) FILMS OF 2017

The 2017 Movie Year in Review, in our humble opinion (Click here)

Friday
Dec152017

REVIEWS / SWINGING SAFARI

The new comedy from Priscilla Queen of The Desert director Stephan Elliott takes a fondue spike to the coarse, crass but not unlovable caricatures of Australian life, circa 1975 (Click here)

Tuesday
Dec122017

REVIEWS / PERFECT BID: THE CONTESTANT WHO KNEW TOO MUCH

The super-fan whose obsession caused one of the most remarkable moments in American television history tells his story in C.J. Wallis' Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much (Click here)

Wednesday
Dec062017

INDUSTRY / IN PROFILE: 2017 AACTA HONOREE PHILLIP NOYCE

2017 AACTA: One of Australia's directing giants (at 6'4", quite literall) will be honored with the Australian film industry's highest honour at tonight's annual backslap, the AACTAs (Click here)

Wednesday
Dec062017

REVIEWS / D-LOVE

A Danish drifter bringing a warm connection to life-affirming spirituality changes the course of a troubled marriage in Elena Beuca's enriching drama, D-love (Click here)

Sunday
Dec032017

REVIEWS / THE COMET KIDS

Can an ambitious Australian indie film, shot on a shoestring budget and starring a cast of young, largey inexperienced actors, recapture the magic of 80s family classics like The Goonies and Stand By Me...? (Click here)

Thursday
Nov302017

HORROR / THE MARSHES: THE ROGER SCOTT INTERVIEW

2017 A NIGHT OF HORROR: Young Australian director Roger Scott has reworked an old Australian legend, The Swagman in his debut feature, The Marshes. "It was a landscape of billabongs and Coolibah trees," he told us, ahead of his film's world premiere. (Click here)

Wednesday
Nov292017

REVIEWS / THE SEEN AND UNSEEN

2017 ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN AWARDS: A twin stays connected to her terminally ill sibling through flights of fantasy in Kamila Andini's remarkable The Seen and Unseen, winner of the 2017 Best Youth Feature Film at this year's APSA ceremony (Click here)

Tuesday
Nov282017

BLOG / MONSTER FEST FETES FIERCE FEMMES AT CLOSING NIGHT KUDOS

2017 MONSTER FEST: The handing out of the iconic 'Monster Trophy' reflected a 2017 line-up positively overflowing with mean, take-no-s**t leading ladies, including Can Evrenol's shocker Housewife (left; Click here)

Saturday
Nov252017

BLOG / GEORGIA ON EVERYONE'S MIND AFTER APSA TRIUMPH

2017 ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN AWARDS: An Aussie western takes Best Picture honours, but the film industries of Georgia and Russia led the country tally at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Click here)