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Monday
Mar072016

REVIEWS / THE CRITIC'S CAPSULE: MARDI GRAS FILM FESTIVAL 2016

Five of the best (including Dianna Agron in Bare, left) from the 2016 Mardi Gras Film Festival, ahead of the event's roadshow screenings in Sydney's west, highlight our latest edition of The Critic's Capsule (Click here).

Monday
Feb292016

INDUSTRY / PROYAS CASTS DARK SHADE OVER GODS OF EGYPT DETRACTORS

Alex Proyas is as mad as hell and he's not going to take all the negative press about Gods of Egypt, rebuking film critics via the very platform from which they attack him - social media (Click here).

Sunday
Feb282016

BLOG / SENTIMENTAL FAVES TO DOMINATE OSCAR 2016

Leo has the Best Actor trophy locked up, but what of the rest of the 2016 Academy Awards categories? Our predictions and prognostications ahead of Hollywood's biggest night of the year (Click here

Sunday
Feb212016

BLOG / IN BOB WE TRUST: DEFENDING DE NIRO

Dirty Grandpa brought on a lot of that 'What has happened to Robert De Niro?' rhetoric that bubbles up whenever 'The Greatest Living Actor' fails to deliver another Raging Bull. Here's why the detractors all need to shut up (Click here).

Thursday
Feb182016

FEATURES / WATER WORLD: THE ANGIE DAVIS INTERVIEW.

An ailing Peruvian coastal village is re-emerging after decades of misfortune and decay thanks to envoronmentally-minded surfers and progressive locals, as captured via the lens of Australian documentarian and humanitarian advocate Angie Davis (Click here)

Tuesday
Feb162016

REVIEWS / RISEN

The crucifixion and resurrection of Christ is retold from the perspective of a non-believer in Kevin Reynolds' modestly-staged, faith-based venture, Risen (Click here).

Saturday
Feb132016

REVIEWS / CHEMSEX

MARDI GRAS FILM FESTIVAL 2016: An increasing and deadly trend amongst London's gay sector is examined with frank insight and shocking honesty in the documentary, Chemsex (Click here).

Saturday
Feb062016

REVIEWS / THE MONKEY KING 2

Sun Wukong, 'The Monkey King', one of the most revered and beloved figures in Chinese literary history, gets a bigscreen version worthy of his cultural legacy in Pou-Soi Cheang's epic fantasy (Click here)

Wednesday
Feb032016

REVIEWS / THE CRITIC'S CAPSULE: BRISBANE UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL 2016

From the world of trailer-park auteur Giuseppe Andrews in Giuseppe Makes a Movie (pictured, left) to the tensions of the US/Mexican drug war in 600 Miles, we cast a critical eye over the highs (and lows) of this year's Brisbane Underground Film Festival (Click here).

Tuesday
Jan262016

FEATURES / THE POWER OF ONE: THE PHILLIP VIANNINI INTERVIEW

Canadian academic Phillip Viannini, with directorial cohort Jonathan Taggart, turned environmental-themed documentarian to capture the idiosyncratic existence of off-griders in The Great White North in the film, Life Off Grid (Click here).

Tuesday
Jan262016

HORROR / SLASH 'N' GRAB: IF HORROR FILMS WON OSCARS...

Whilst on the topic of Hollywood's lack of diversity, let's recount and redress nearly a century of cinema that has seen the horror film unfairly ignored come awards season (Click here).

Sunday
Jan172016

REVIEWS / SKIN DEEP

Sydney's alt-culture hub of King Street, Newtown proves a gateway to friendship, understanding and acceptance for two distinctly different young women in Jon Leahy's Skin Deep (Click here)

Friday
Jan152016

FEATURES / OSCAR'S REVENGE: ANGRY MEN LEAD 2016 NOMINATIONS RACE

The existential struggles of broad-shouldered alpha-males in the action epics The Revenant and Mad Max Fury Road wooed AMPAS members when ballots were cast for the 2016 Oscar race (Click here

Thursday
Jan142016

REVIEWS / THE 5th WAVE

The latest YA publishing hit to give big-screen franchise glory a shot is Rick Yancy's teen-queen warrior tale, The 5th Wave, with Chloe Grace Moretz carrying both hardcore weaponry and a beleaguered studio's sequel hopes (Click here).

Wednesday
Jan132016

FEATURES / PREVIEW: 2016 BRISBANE UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL

Festival director Nina Riddel has held steadfast to the traditions of counter-culture cinema in programming the 2016 Brisbane Underground Film Festival (which will feature Sebastian Silva's Nasty Baby, with Kristen Wiig; left) (Click here)