FEATURES / THE SHELTER: THE MICHAEL PARE INTERVIEW

One of Hollywood's great survivors, Michael Paré's career has run the gamut from toplining studio summer blockbusters (including the cult classic, Streets of Fire) to working with the notorious Uwe Boll (on his notorious BloodRayne). The actor's latest, a dramatic psychological thriller called The Shelter, paved the way for a Career Achievement honour at A Night of Horror Film Festival in Sydney (Click here).

REVIEWS / THE LAUNCHPAD DIRECTORS: REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS FROM A NIGHT OF HORROR/FANTASTIC PLANET 2015

A NIGHT OF HORROR / FANTASTIC PLANET 2015: Three directors brought their latest projects to one of the Southern Hemisphere's leading genre film events to partake in Launchpad 2015, a strand that highlights World Premiere visions from emerging talents. We put the three 2015 participants under the critical glare (Click here).

INDUSTRY / DOWN UNDER DOLLAR HELPS SECURE SCOTT'S ALIEN EPIC

From Sydney's Fox Studios, director Ridley Scott (and his poli mates) offered gathered journalists a glimpse inside his Prometheus sequel, Alien: Covenant, and reflected upon the high level dealings that secured the production's Australian shoot (Click here).

REVIEWS / A NIGHT OF HORROR VOLUME 1

2015 A NIGHT OF HORROR/FANTASTIC PLANET FILM FESTIVAL: The opening night event is a fittingly reverential ode to new horror visions, inspired by the most vibrant and challenging of genres (Click here).

REVIEWS / THE SECOND COMING VOLUME 1

2015 A NIGHT OF HORROR/FANTASTIC PLANET FILM FESTIVAL: Richard Wolstencroft reinterprets William Butler Yeats by way of Kenneth Anger in this transcontinental, sex-and-drugs fuelled account of the early days of the end of man...phew (Click here).

REVIEWS / ARROWHEAD

Arrowhead, a bold, bewildering, brutal science-fiction vision from first-time Aussie director Jesse O'Brien has taken out Best Film honours at the Down Under genre celebration (Click here)

BLOG / THE BEAUTIFUL WORDS OF MELISSA MATHISON

The late screenwriter Melissa Mathison's legacy will be not only the words she could conjure but the generations of hearts she has touched (Click here). 

FEATURES / SCHLOCK AND AWE: THE CHRISTOPHER R MIHM INTERVIEW.

SCIFI FILM FESTIVAL 2015: The collective memory of a movie-going generation is being honoured by America's king of B-movie magic, Christopher R Mihm, director of such epics as It Came From Another World, Cave Women on Mars, The Giant Spider and his latest, Danny Johnson Saves The World (Click here).

REVIEWS / JACKRABBIT

SCIFI FILM FESTIVAL 2015: Carlton Ranney's dystopic future thriller Jackrabbit paints crafts a lo-fi version of an Orwellian future under threat by two small-scale but determined cyber hackers (Click here). 

REVIEWS / GIRL ASLEEP

ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL 2015: The Australian teen movie heroine has a new angst-ridden, sweet-natured poster child in Greta, played by Bethany Whitmore, in Rosemary Myers' adaptation of Michael Whittet's play, Girl Asleep (Click here)

REVIEWS / CRIMSON PEAK

The latest from the ghoulish mind of horror/fantasy maestro Guillermo del Toro, the haunted-mansion gothic melodrama Crimson Peak, pits an A-list cast against some B-movie tropes (Click here).

FEATURES / A NIGHT TO REMEMBER: THE STEVE DE JARNATT INTERVIEW

Enjoying a HD-remastered Blu-ray renaissance is Miracle Mile, the 80s cult classic that has proven a long labour-of-love for director, Steve De Jarnatt, who says, “I think if I had not held to my vision, no one would be watching it today…” (Click here)

REVIEWS / ALEX & EVE

2015 GREEK FILM FESTIVAL: The clashing of two of the world's oldest cultures might just be enough to spoil the blossoming romance between a Greek teacher and a Lebanese lawyer in the new Australian film, Alex & Eve (Click here).

FEATURES / IN AMERICA: THE RAMIN BAHRANI INTERVIEW

In his latest film 99 Homes, starring Michael Shannon and Andrew Garfield, New York-based writer/director Ramin Bahrani explores the morally corrupt 'New America', in which the working class are cast aside heartlessly to further bolster the 1 percent profit margins (Click here).

FEATURES / ONE FROM THE HEART: THE GASPAR NOE INTERVIEW

2015 SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL: The sex-and-violence oeuvre of European cinema badboy Gaspar Noe takes an unexpected, if no less confronting, left turn in his explicit 3D romance, Love. “I wanted to make a sentimental film about what love is," he says. (Click here)