INDUSTRY / THE NIGHTINGALE SOARS AT AACTA 2019

Jennifer Kent's blistering tale of violent retribution in the Tasmanian wilderness set records at the 2019 AACTA Awards ceremony last night (Click here)
Jennifer Kent's blistering tale of violent retribution in the Tasmanian wilderness set records at the 2019 AACTA Awards ceremony last night (Click here)
The vast 2019 program made narrowing down the best of the fest a tough gig, but judges and organisers of this year's Berlin Sci-fi Filmfest have done a cracking job with their final choices (Click here)
One the biggest stars of his generation is now making smart, heartfelt, humanistic dramas that speak to a better America. Emilio Estevez talks about his latest film, The Public (Click here)
The film industries of Korea and Russia took key trophies, but everyone got a ribbon in an even spread of honourees at last night's 13th Asia Pacific Screen awards in Brisbane (Click here).
2019 ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN AWARDS: The plight of homeless women on the streets of Tehran, their involuntary life-long incarceration, and the patriarchal brutality that drove them their are confronted in Behzad Nalbandi's stunning stop-motion, heartbreaking documentary vision (Click here)
A PSA klaxon-call to steer clear of abandoned mines fall on five sets of deaf ears, leading to an increasing level of danger, both natural and supernatural, in debutant Dean Yurke's gripping wilderness thriller (Click here)
FANGORIA x MONSTER FEST 2019: The four young men behind our film sector's shot at 90's-era slasher deeconstruction revisit their cult hit as older, wiser types 20 uyears later (Click here)
Roland Emmerich's take on the turning point in the war in the Pacific is equal parts smashing combat cinema and broad B-movie tropes. So why does it work so well? (Click here)
FANGORIA x MONSTER FEST 2019: The star of Australia's latest horror sensation, Airlie Dodds, warmed to the positive female empowerment message the emerges from beneath the gore of Tony D'Aquinos' splatter epic (Click here)
FANGORIA x MONSTER FEST 2019: A deserted German minesweeper, a desperate band of survivors and ancient coffins sheltering Romanian vampires. Justin Dix's Blood Vessel (geddit?) is the kind of crowdpleasing horror romp that should be made more often (Click here)
FANGORIA x MONSTER FEST 2019: Twelve women filmmakers have pooled their collective talent for the horror anthology Dark Whispers Vol 1. The result is a glimpse into the promise that the future holds for Australian genre films (Click here)
If there's something strange in your middle-class London terrace, who ya gonna call...? (Click here)
2019 VETERANS FILM FESTIVAL: The people of Canberra are set for the three days of introspective war stories and full-uniform respectability (aside from the raucous non-conformity of our own The Odd Angry Shot, of course), in line with the tone of this years' Veterans Film Festival program (Click here).
FANGORIA x MONSTER FEST 2019: The Australian sector's latest horror sensation, The Furies, gives prosthetic master Larry Van Duynhoven unprecedented access to his own deepest, darkest horror imagery. The results are...oh, boy... (Click here)
FANGORIA X MONSTER FEST 2019: Even at four hours, can David A. Wiener's ode to 80s horror possibly encompass the impact the decade had on genre cinema (Click here)