REVIEWS / EVEREST

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).
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).
REEL SYDNEY FESTIVAL OF WORLD CINEMA 2015: The Closing Night film of Sydney's newest festival event is a hard but hopeful journey deep into the sordid world of Manila's child sex industry (Click here).
MIFF 2015: Iranian writer/director Nima Javidi discusses his appropriately-titled psychological drama, Melbourne, ahead of it's screening at the southern capital's iconic film event (Click here).
Things get weird and wonderful in this next round of Revelation 2015 reviews from The SCREEN-SPACE Critic's Capsule, including our take on the (very) unexpected frontrunner for Best of the Fest honours (Click here).
With his idiosyncratic sophomore feature, Hollywood, multi-hyphenate Davidson Cole (pictured, left; with co-star Dana Melanie) takes on the well-worn tropes of cinema lore and crafts a bracing, bold, bizarre odyssey that could only happen...well, you get the idea. (Click here).
The first volley of reviews from Revelation Perth International Film Festival, via The Capsule Critic, tackles some of the event's most challenging and anticipated films (including Doug Aitken's Amtrak artistic odyssey, Station to Station; click here).