REVIEWS / PARANOIA

A star-making vehicle for the latest Aussie hunk can't overcome its genre shortcomings, resulting in a work of generic mediocrity and lazy filmmaking. (Click pic)

REVIEWS / PASSION

Brian De Palma revisits the well of diminishing returns in his latest Euro-trash offering, Passion, a familiar film that plays like a half-baked homage to his younger self. (Click pic) 

REVIEWS / V/H/S 2

Redefining the term 'video nasty', the cult-bound horror-anthology series offers up a second installment of headache-inducing, stomach-turning weirdness. (Click pic)

INDUSTRY / TORONTO WELCOMES FOUR OF OUR FINEST

Four of the Australian sector's most eagerly anticipated 2013 releases will screen at the influential Toronto International Film Festival in September. (Click pic)

REVIEWS / HARRY DEAN STANTON: PARTLY FICTION

The Godfather of Hollywood character actors is afforded due respect and fascinating insight in Sophie Huber's artfully constructed profile piece. (Click pic)

REVIEWS / INTERIOR. LEATHER BAR

James Franco toys with fanbase perception in this offbeat, awkward docudrama that explores the mystery and meaning of excised hardcore footage from the Al Pacino film, Cruising. (Click pic)

BLOG / REVELATIONS 2013 REVIEW: THE WEST FEST'S BEST.

As the sun sets on the west coast's leading film event, we look back at the highlights of what many consider to be the best programme in the 16 year history of the festival they call Revelations. (Click pic) 

REVIEWS / PACIFIC RIM

Guilermo de Toro finally gets the mega-budget go-ahead for a premise that should soar under his vision and intelligence, the likes of which are too rare in fantasy films. But is Pacific Rim everything his fans have been hoping for? (Click pic)

REVIEWS / THE END OF TIME

Indian funerals, dead grasshoppers, lava flows and the Hadron Collider. Canadian cine-philosopher Peter Mettler explores man's relationship to time in a dazzling but gratingly impenetrable visual odyssey (Click pic).

FEATURES / STREETS OF FIRE: THE BRENNA SANCHEZ INTERVIEW

Documentarian Brenna Sanchez has captured a year in the life of the fire department that struggles daily to stop her hometown of Detroit from burning to the ground. The film, Burn, opens the Revelations Film Festival this week on Australia's west coast. (Click pic)

REVIEWS / THE LONE RANGER

Uh-oh, Silver.... The latest effort from Hollywood to relaunch our collective memory as a profit-focussed initiative is an odd, uneven action-comedy which will leave many scratching their heads, asking "What happened?" and "Why bother?"  

REVIEWS / THE CONJURING

Fascinating facts meet fanciful fiction in James Wan's creaky, creepy account of a true-life haunting, The Conjuring. (Click pic)

FEATURES / DEEP IN THE HEART: THE DON SWAYNOS INTERVIEW

Austin, Texas, may not seem like your typical hub of independent filmmaking creativity, but as Don Swaynos shows with his giddyingly original new film, Pictures of Superheroes, there is nothing typical about the films coming from there (Click pic).

REVIEWS / THE FINAL MEMBER

An Icelandic collector's never-ending search for the most elusive of mementos brings him into contact with a brash American in this winning and warm documentary (Click pic).

REVIEWS / THE WAY, WAY BACK

Coming-of-age tales don't come smarter or sweeter than the new film from the Oscar-winning writers of The Descendants. (Click pic)