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Tuesday
Apr122016

FEATURES / WORKING CLASS MAN: THE HEATH DAVIS INTERVIEW

Fallen idols and broken dreams are examined in Broke, a hardbitten, soft-hearted working-class drama that marks an impressive debut for writer/director Heath Davis (Click here)

Thursday
Apr072016

FEATURES / AUSSIE AUTEUR PUTS 'FILM' BACK INTO SHORT FILM PRODUCTION.

A lifelong dream to crank the camera and shoot a movie on traditional film stock came true for director Chris Elena when his short film, The Limited, was lensed on 16mm (Click here)

Monday
Apr042016

WORLD CINEMA / NEPAL

A nation's turbulent history and remote geography dictate a disrupted but richly rewarding national cinema. Our first 'World Cinema' profile captures the beautiful spirituality and brave visions of Nepalese cinema (pictured, leftSatya Harischandra, 1952; Click here).

Sunday
Apr032016

HORROR / LAST DRINKS: THE SEVÉ SCHELENZ INTERVIEW.

After the international success of his low-budget, high-energy debut Skew, Sevé Schelenz found inspiration in strippers and the undead for his sophomore feature, Peelers (Click here)

Saturday
Apr022016

REVIEWS / FATHERS AND DAUGHTERS

2016 YOUNG AT HEART FILM FESTIVAL: Russell Crowe taps a more grounded 'everyman' persona in Gabrielle Muccino's latest saccharine cinematic soap opera, Fathers and Daughters (Click here).

Thursday
Mar312016

INDUSTRY / STARDUST MEMORIES: THE PETER FLYNN INTERVIEW

Director Peter Flynn's sadness-tinged doco Dying of The Light profiles the film projectionist, a disappearing craftsman who helped forge the legacy left by a century of cinema (Click here).

Monday
Mar212016

HORROR / NEW WAVE OF HORROR HITS PALM BEACH FILM FEST

Under new CEO Jeff Davis (pictured), Palm Beach International Film Festival is headed into some new, delightfully dark terrotory with its inaugural horror strand, curated by veteran program director Larry Richmann (Click here).

Friday
Mar182016

FEATURES / SAVE THE LAST DANCE: THE GERMAN KRAL INTERVIEW.

Director German Kral's connection to the national dance of his homeland inevitably led him to Maria Nevies Rego and Juan Carlos Copes, the greatest proponents of the tango to have ever lived and the subjects of his documentary, Our Last Tango (Click here)

Sunday
Mar132016

FEATURES / FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS: THE MAIKE BROCHHAUS INTERVIEW.

For Maike Brochhaus, sexuality in cinema is due for some redefining. The German filmmaker/feminism advocate is bringing X-rated imagery to mainstream cinema with her contemporary comedy, Schnick Schnack Schnuck (Click here)

Thursday
Mar102016

REVIEWS / 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE

Producer JJ Abrams, working with first-time director Dan Trachtenberg, go deep and dark in this sequel-of-sorts to the 2008 found-footage monster pic (Click here)

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)