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Monday
May192014

BLOG / SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL: THE CINEMA OF CINEMA

Mark Cousins' A Story of Children in Film (pictured, left) is one of the many works at SFF2014 that will examine the magic of film from an insider's perspective (Click pic)

Saturday
May172014

REVIEWS / IN YOUR EYES

Joss Whedon turns his scripting skill from blockbuster bulge to indie introspection with Brin Hill's romantic fantasy, In Your Eyes, starring hipster 'it-girl' Zoe Kazan (Click pic)

Wednesday
May142014

REVIEWS / SXTAPE

Candyman director Bernard Rose returns to the dark, dangerous world of the suburban supernatural with his handheld horror pic, sxtape (Click pic)

Monday
May122014

INDUSTRY / ADELAIDE'S AUTEURS GATHER FOR STATE SECTOR GALA

Aaron Schuppan's existential sci-fi tale Pale Blue Dot (pictured, left) is among the films vying for honours at the 15th annual South Australia Screen Awards this week (Click pic). 

Sunday
May112014

HORROR / THE WOODSMAN: THE JEREMY GARDNER INTERVIEW

With US$6,000 and an all-or-nothing attitude, writer/director Jeremy Gardner crafted the cult hit The Battery, a bloody ode to mateship in a world full of zombies that has taken the indie horror scene by storm (Click pic)

Thursday
May082014

REVIEWS / MINUSCULE: VALLEY OF THE ANTS

French co-directors Helene Giraud and Thomas Szabo prove that all you need to make a great adventure film is a ladybug, an ant and a tin of sugar in this bigscreen reworking of their TV hit, Minuscule (Click pic)

Thursday
May082014

BLOG / SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL: 'WOW MOMENTS' IN THE 2014 PROGRAM

Bobcat Goldthwait's Bigfoot thriller Willow Creek (pictured, left) is amongst the left-field programming choices that has made the 2014 Sydney Film Festival program one of the best in years (Click pic) 

Tuesday
May062014

FEATURES / THE WARRIOR WAY: THE TEMUERA MORRISON INTERVIEW

One of New Zealand's acting greats, Temuera Morrison reflects upon a career filled with iconic screen characters, none morseo than the towering brute, Jake Heke, from Once Were Warriors (Click pic)

Saturday
May032014

REVIEWS / THE BABADOOK

Sundance buzz suggests that Australian Jennifer Kent's nailbiting feature debut deserves to be spoken of in the same breath as haunted-house classics The Shining, The Others and The Amityville Horror (Click pic)

Friday
May022014

INDUSTRY / THE ROCKET TAKES FEATURE DIRECTOR HONOURS AT PEER-VOTED GALA

Kim Morduant and Sophie Turkiewicz take feature film honours at the Australian Director's Guild award ceremony in Sydney tonight (Click pic)

Friday
May022014

REVIEWS / 3D NAKED AMBITION

Chapman To becomes an unlikely stud to the AV industry starlets of Tokyo in Lee Kung-lok's bouyant, bouncy 3D romp, Naked Ambition (Click pic).

Friday
May022014

REVIEWS / ICEMAN 3D

Action superstar Donnie Yen and first-time director Wing-cheong Law can expect a chilly response from critics and audiences alike to their ill-concieved fantasy epic, Iceman (Click pic)

Tuesday
Apr292014

FEATURES / REQUIEM FOR A VILLAGE: THE KIMBERLEY JOSEPH INTERVIEW

The 90's soap-opera starlet makes her debut as a documetarian with The Polygon, a heartbreaking chronicle of a Kazakhstan village suffering through the ill-effects of nuclear pollution (Click pic)

Monday
Apr282014

BLOG / AMITABH BACHCHAN AND THE LEGEND OF DEEWAAR

Amitabh Bachchan's arrival in Melbourne for the 2014 Indian Film Festival prompts a re-evaluation of the film that made him Bollywood's biggest star, Yash Chopra's 1975 crime epic Deewaar (Click pic)

Tuesday
Apr152014

FEATURES / MEDICINE MAN: THE DAVID GOULD INTERVIEW

Wellington-based expat David Gould observed first-hand the slick, sublime cinematic storytelling of his boss, Peter Jackson, and has parlayed that knowledge into his first feature, The Cure (Click pic).