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).
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).
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)
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).
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).
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)
The merciless nature of the globe's highest peak is rendered authentically in Baltasar Kormakur's gruelling, majestic account of the 1996 climb that claimed eight lives (Click here).
Umrika brings a humanistic, incisive perspective to the refugee experience at a time when the tragedy of the displaced is front-page news. The director, Prashant Nair (pictured, centre, with stars Tony Revolori and Suraj Sharma), told Screen-Space that his film, "allows its audiences to think of immigration beyond the statistics." (Click here).
MELBOURNE UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL 2015: Actress Kristen Condon has emerged as a figurehead of the alternative film sector, with four films programmed into the latest edition of Melbourne's underground film event (Click here).
After some commercial and critical stumbles, M Night Shyamalan returns to chilling form with his latest, The Visit. Says the director made famous by The Sixth Sense and Signs, "I’m so close to it still, but it seems like the most fun I’ve had making a film." (Click here)
Seven film franchises were given a fresh coat of paint and sent out into the American summer box office race. We analyse which emerged victorious, which shouldn't have bothered and who was left cowering in the dust. (Click here)
We Can Be Who We Are: Movie Musicals from The 1970s is an immense work, a major achievement for the books author, Lee Gambin. Is it at all possible that the Melbourne-based writer could define, from the more than 200 films he exhaustively researched (including Hair; pictured, left), his five most memorable moments from that most enigmatic of decades (Click here)
A 20 year-old passion project is resurrected by Kiwi expat and horror afficionado Bryn Tilly, and the world is taking notice (Click here).
2015 MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: Despite containing no fraternal siblings of any specific ethnicity whatsoever, Bob Byington's 7 Chinese Brothers is a truthful and funny slice of slacker life comedy with a winning performance by Jason Schwartzman (Click here)
A compelling new filmmaking talent has arrived on the Australian industry scene in Rhiannon Bannenberg. Her debut film, the moody, melancholy Ambrosia, is a bold arthouse vision (Click here)
Kinopanorama, the three-film widescreen format pioneered in Russia in the mid 1950s, has a passionate crusader in the form of John Steven Lasher, a veteran entertainment industry executive determined to save the Soviet format from his base in the New South Wales country town of Menindee (Click here).