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Wednesday
Jun082016

REVIEWS / GOLDSTONE

2016 SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL: The 63rd edition gambles on a sequel and a western to open the event, but Ivan Sen's gritty, grim and fiercely compelling Goldstone proves the best festival first night in recent memory (Click here). 

Thursday
Jun022016

REVIEWS / UNIQUE ARTISTRY FINDS LOVE AT MELBOURNE DOC FEST

The artistic endeavours of a Japanese punk-rock group, an iconic Aussie band, the worst film director ever and a yacht-pop legend are examined in four films screening at the 2016 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival (Click here).

Saturday
May282016

INDUSTRY / VIRTUAL HORRORS AT FOREFRONT OF NEW ERA IN STORYTELLING

CANNES 2016: An immersive haunted house experience inspired by a blockbuster film franchise convincingly confirms the legitimacy of Virtual Reality (Click here).

Thursday
May262016

FEATURES / BEAUTIFUL CREATURES: THE BRUNO DUMONT INTERVIEW.

CANNES 2016: Known for his bleak portraits of desperate humans, French director Bruno Dumont looks on the bright side of life with Ma Loute, his first comedy (complete with cannibals and in-breeding) (Click here)

Monday
May232016

FEATURES / CANNES 2016: CANNES FAVOURS PAST WINNERS WITH 2016 COMPETITION PRIZES

Festival favourites Ken Loach, Xavier Dolan and Asghar Farhadi take top honours at the 2016 Festival du Cannes (Click here)

Friday
May202016

BLOG / CANNES 2016: CAN THE QUEEN OF CANNES CONQUER THE WORLD…AGAIN?

The biggest teen star of her generation is eyeing a long term international career, if her 2016 films are any indication (Click here

Friday
May202016

HORROR / CANNES 2016: CANNES CLASSICS BOWS REFN'S RESTORATION OF BAVA BRILLIANCE 

The Cannes Classic sidebar was home to the World Premiere of Nicholas Winding Refn's restoration of Italian horro legend Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires  (Click here)

Monday
May162016

REVIEWS / CANNES 2016: RAW

The feature debut for French director Julia Ducournau is a chilling, charming, stomach-churning minor classic of the vet-students-as-cannibals sub-genre (Click here)

Sunday
May152016

REVIEWS / CANNES 2016: THE BFG

What reads as the dream-come-true triptych of the great storytellers Steven Spielberg, Roald Dahl and Disney Studios becomes something else entirely in the finished product (Click here

Saturday
May142016

REVIEWS / CANNES 2016: THE STUDENT

A Russian teen turns increasingly hostile as dogmatic Christian fundamentalism drives him towards an act of heartbreaking religious extremism in Kirill Serebrennikov's The Student. (Click here)

Friday
May132016

REVIEWS / CANNES 2016: MONEY MONSTER

The Hollywood power triptych of George Clooney, Julia Roberts and director Jodie Foster deliver bang-for-buck and some social commentary to boot in their crowdpleasing thriller, Money Monster (Click here

Thursday
May122016

REVIEWS / CANNES 2016: CAFÉ SOCIETY

Woody Allen returns to The Croisette with a work of sweet, sly immorality, a star turn from Kristen Stewart and award season buzz for veteran DOP Vittorio Storaro (Click here)

Wednesday
May112016

FEATURES / NOTES ON A SCANDAL: THE SCOTT HICKS INTERVIEW

Shine director Scott Hicks returns to the obsessive personalities and brilliant talents of classical music in his new documentary, Highly Strung (Click here

Wednesday
May112016

FEATURES / PREVIEW: 63rd SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL

An expanded focus on international content and a strong commitment to diversified visions highlight the 250+ films on offer at this year's Sydney Film Festival (Click here)

Wednesday
May042016

BLOG / CANNES 2016: WOODY'S FRENCH FESTIVAL LOVE STORY

A third Opening Night honour for Woody Allen ensures the director a place in cinema history even before the 69th Cannes Film Festival launches next week (Click here