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Monday
Nov182013

FEATURES / BODY MELT: THE ADDISON HEATH INTERVIEW

MONSTER FEST 2013: Chocolate Strawbery Vanilla, the feature film debut of writer Addison Heath, signifies the emergence of a strong, fresh voice from the Melbourne underground film community (Click pic)

Sunday
Nov172013

REVIEWS / EUROPA REPORT

BRISBANE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Sebastian Cordero's found-footage riff on space exploration and extra-terrestrial life is a thrilling experience that proves to be one giant leap for the genre (Click pic)

Friday
Nov152013

REVIEWS / DELIVERY MAN

Vince Vaughan gives his strongest indication yet that rom-com inanity and bro-mance silliness are not high on the actor's priorities these days with Ken Scott's Delivery Man (Click pic)

Tuesday
Nov122013

REVIEWS / THE BANSHEE CHAPTER 3D

MONSTER FEST 2013: Those who still have a Fox Mulder poster on their bedroom wall will lap up the complex, nutty paranoid contortions of Blair Erickson's debut psycho-thriller, The Banshee Chapter (Click pic)

Tuesday
Nov122013

REVIEWS / HERE COMES THE DEVIL

MONSTER FEST 2013: Giallo, grindhouse and a smattering of other 70's-era Euro-horror tropes provide the main source of inspiration for this otherwise underwhelming Spanish effort (Click pic).

Tuesday
Nov122013

MEDIA / TRAILERS, SHORTS AND FIRST-LOOKS

Coverage of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire world premiere; the remarkable first short film from Todd Haynes; a 2 hour career retrospective chat with James L Brooks; the scene-clip feature film, Los Angeles Plays Itself; and, the new trailer for the latest from James Franco and Jessica Chastain (Click pic)

Monday
Nov112013

FEATURES / KIER-LA JANISSE AND THE WOMEN IN HER LIFE 

MONSTER FEST 2013: Ahead of the Canadian film scholar's presentation, we nominate our favourite femme fatales (including Desiree Nosbusch, left) from Kier-La Janisse's book, House of Psychotic Women (Click pic)

Monday
Nov112013

REVIEWS / CONTRACTED

MONSTER FEST 2013: 'If it's not on, it's not on' takes on a new dimension of grave importance in Eric England's body-horror shocker, Contracted (Click pic).

Saturday
Nov092013

REVIEWS / CHOCOLATE STRAWBERRY VANILLA

MONSTER FEST 2013: Sociopaths have a new poster child in the form of Warren Thompson, the chilling ice-cream vendor creation of actor Glenn Maynard, director Stuart Simpson and writer Addison Heath in their instant cult classic, Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla (Click pic)

Thursday
Nov072013

FEATURES / WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE: THE ANDREW TRAUCKI INTERVIEW

MONSTER FEST 2013: Man-vs-nature genre maestro Andrew Traucki (Black Water; The Reef) talks about his rainforest-set supernatural thriller, The Jungle (Click pic)

Wednesday
Nov062013

REVIEWS / KRRISH 3

Third time seems to the charm for Hrithik Roshan's nice-guy superhero, as audiences flock to the Diwali blockbuster (Click pic)

Wednesday
Nov062013

INDUSTRY / FOREIGN TOONS COLOUR OSCAR'S PALETTE

Nine foreign works will be vying for Oscar consideration when the Best Animated Feature nominations are announced in January (Click pic).  

Monday
Nov042013

FEATURES / THE KILLER INSIDE ME: THE DUNCAN CUNNINGHAM INTERVIEW

MONSTER FEST 2013: From deep within the no-budget Australian genre underground emerges a directorial talent whose debut film has already taken YouTube by storm. (Click pic)

Saturday
Nov022013

REVIEWS / FREE CHINA: THE COURAGE TO BELIEVE

A stirring advocacy documentary relates two stories of Chinese human rights abuses and the willingness of the human spirit to overcome oppression (Click pic). 

Saturday
Nov022013

FEATURES / OVER THE TOP: TILT 2013 SET TO GET HEARTS PUMPING

Skate parks, ski-slopes and big wave beaches will be deserted come mid November, as Australia's extreme sports fans settle in for some safer but no less thrilling bigscreen action (Click pic).