Wednesday, July 4, 2018 at 10:59AM 
2018 MELBOURNE DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL: Director Skye Borgman has crafted a chilling study in manipulation, sociopathy, faith and abuse in her retelling of the abduction of 13 year-old Jan Broberg by 40 year-old Robert Berchtold in 1973 (Click here)
Tuesday, July 3, 2018 at 3:49PM 
Bulgaria's cinema history began when the wealthy embraced filmmaking as an art-form and invested in production and exhibition assets. It is still regarded with the utmost respect by a population that adores its domestic industry (left; Todor Dinov's iconic short, The Daisy; click here)
Monday, July 2, 2018 at 11:55AM 
2018 MELBOURNE DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL: From the deep pool of locally-produced short films at this years MDFF, we pick five standouts (amongst them, the mesmerising Wolfe from director Claire Randall, left). (Click here)
Sunday, July 1, 2018 at 5:43PM 
The promise of Manga-inspired, CGI-generated fantasy madness and a "how-did-this-happen?" appearance by Hollywood heavyweight Michael Douglas isn't enough to carry Han Yan's Animal World into the realm of cultdom (Click here)
Sunday, July 1, 2018 at 5:40PM 
Shailene Woodley bridges her teen queen roles and pending adult career with a strong, sweet performance as oceanfaring survivor Tami Oldham in Adrift (Click here)
Tuesday, June 26, 2018 at 11:59AM 
2018 MELBOURNE DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL: An environmental plague of South American swamp rats was all that the people of Delacroix Island, Louisiana, needed to come together, defy adversity and have a wild ol' time doing it, in the documentary Rodents of Unusual Size (Click here)
Saturday, June 23, 2018 at 7:28AM 
LALIFF 2018: A Spanish matriarch's personal struggle and how her extended family must reconcile their own fate with hers makes for a charming, bittersweet profile in Gustavo Salmerón's winning doco (Click here)
Friday, June 15, 2018 at 9:19PM 
2018 MELBOURNE DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL: Julian Boshier embedded himself in the life and music of New Zealand rock gods Head Like A Hole, resulting in a foot-tapping, ear-shattering, occasionally heart-breaking documentary work (Click here)
Thursday, June 14, 2018 at 7:47AM 
A father's journey from Queensland suburbia to a galaxy far, far away with his son by his side makes for a moving documentary experience in Adam harris' My saga (Click here)
Friday, June 8, 2018 at 6:11AM 
It's as if Steven Spielberg had made Saving Private Ryan via Dreamworks Animation. An incredible real-life canine war hero makes for a winning lead character in Richard Lanni's matter-of-fact combat adventure, Sgt Stubby (Click here)
Thursday, June 7, 2018 at 4:15PM 
MELBOURNE DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL: 60 films over 9 days at six venues (including the big rat doc Rodents of Unusual Size; pictured, left) suggest that the 2018 MDFF is not cutting corners when it comes to representing the global factual filmmaking community (Click here)
Wednesday, June 6, 2018 at 6:35AM 
The spectre of grief and the ghosts of the past haunt a family already struggling with dysfunction in Ari Aster's Hereditary (Click here)
Sunday, June 3, 2018 at 6:36AM 
With thanks to Owen Gleiberman and his wonderful memoir, Movie Freak: My Life Watching Movies, we apply his Five Trade Secrets to surviving festival meltdown to the 65th Sydney Film Festival, which opens this week (Click here)
Saturday, June 2, 2018 at 6:58AM 
Long overdue recognition for a horror film industry that has largely gone without praise proved strong motivation for director Steve De Roover, the man behind the documentary Forgotten Scares: An In-Depth Look at Flemish Horror Films (Click here)
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 at 11:48AM 
MELBOURNE DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL: Director Dawn Mikkelson's three-tiered account of grievous injustice and life-altering forgiveness is a work that needs to be seen by a world struggling to find direction (Click here)
