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Tuesday
Dec012020

REVIEWS / APARTMENT 1BR

David Marmor's chilling, brutal pitch-black social satire hits Australian platforms and paints an even darker picture on the fracturing of US society than it did a year ago (Click here

Friday
Nov272020

FEATURES / PREVIEW: 2020 BERLIN SCI-FI FILMFEST

A whopping 110 films from all corner of the galaxy (well, 28 countries) are set to invade German homes with the Berlin Sci-Fi Filmfest heading online (Click here)

Sunday
Nov222020

WORLD CINEMA / A WORLD OF SCI-FI HONOURED AT SYDNEY SCIENCE FICTION FILM FESTIVAL

Visionary works from the U.A.E., Iran, Spain, Italy, Japan, France and Australia dominated the prize pool at the first annual Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival (picture, left; Denise Tantucci, Best Actress winner for Darkness) (Click here)

Saturday
Oct312020

HORROR / BETTER THE DEVIL YOU KNOW: THE ALEXANDRE O. PHILIPPE INTERVIEW

George Lucas, Alfred Hitchcock, Ridley Scott have all been placed under the filmic microscope of Alexandre O. Philippe. Now, it's William Friedken and his masterpiece The Exorcist that are dissected, in Leap of Faith (Click here)

Thursday
Oct292020

HORROR / IS TROMA'S TEMPEST REDO LLOYD KAUFMAN'S CITIZEN KANE MOMENT? 

He gave the world The Toxic Avenger and Sgt Kabukiman NYPD. Finally, Troma boss Lloyd Kaufman has made the film he's yearned to make his whole life. It is spin on The Tempest, with added whales faeces (Click here)

Saturday
Oct242020

BLOG / RENOWNED ASTROPHYSICIST ANNOUNCED AS SYDNEY SCIENCE FICTION FILM FEST PATRON

Having travelled the world to explore the stars, University of New South Wales' senior lecturer Dr Maria Cunningham steps into a patron's role with the newly launched Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival (Click here)

Sunday
Oct182020

FEATURES / MEET THE FILMMAKERS OF THE SYDNEY SCIENCE FICTION FILM FESTIVAL

We posed a series of questions to the directors with films selected in the inaugural Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival. Their answers show insight into the talent, determination and excitement filmmaking offers. (Click here)

Tuesday
Oct132020

REVIEWS / AN UNQUIET GRAVE

NIGHTSTREAM Film Festival: A grieving husband and a desperate sister head deep into the woods to resurrect their lost love in Terence Krey's 'supernatural-noir' thriller, An Unquiet Grave (Click here)

Sunday
Oct112020

DVD GIVEAWAY / MORTAL

Win one of 5 DVD copies of the new film by director André Øvredal by answering the question, "If I could control any of nature's elements, it would be..." and "Why...?" (Australian Residents only; T&Cs apply; Click here)

Saturday
Oct102020

MEDIA / SO WHAT WILL WE BE WATCHING AT THE MOVIES?

We pick six new films that are holding firm to later 2020/early 2021 release dates and ponder if the likes of Johnny Depp, Mel Gibson, Frances McDormand or Tom Hanks have what it takes to reignite a cinephile's passion? (Click here 

Thursday
Oct082020

FEATURES / 2020 SYDNEY SCIENCE FICTION FILM FESTIVAL: PREVIEW

Australia's newest genre film festival presents an international line-up (including Tunisian helmer Myriam Khammassi’s Magnum Opus; left) in a celebration of the international science fiction community (Click here)

Wednesday
Oct072020

INDUSTRY / WARNERMEDIA AND ROADSHOW FILMS SPLIT IN DISTRIB SECTOR SHAKE-UP

The two distribution giants shared in blockbuster gamechangers like The Matrix, but Warner Bros have brought the curtain down on the decades-old distribution deal with Australia's Roadshow Films (Click here)

Saturday
Sep192020

HORROR / PREVIEW: BEYOND FEST 2020

The LA genre festival is holding fast to the physical festival format and bringing horror pics, including Charlotte Kirk in Neil Marshall's The Reckoning, back to where they belong - the drive-in theatre (Click here).

Saturday
Sep192020

REVIEWS / PACIFICO

Beyond the life-enriching power of taming a decent swell, two young men find greater meaning in life on a Latin American odyssey in Andreas Geipel's stunning, spiritual doc Pacifico (Click here)

Thursday
Sep102020

INDUSTRY / HANKS RETURNS TO OZ FOR BAZ'S ELVIS EPIC

As long as everyone adheres to pandemic protocol, Baz Luhrmann's blockbuster biopic Elvis, starring Austin Butler and Tom Hanks, will begin shooting in Queensland from September 23 (Click here)