After a 2014 that teetered upon the edge of box office ignominy, Hollywood is bringing out the big guns in a year filled with Marvel mega-pics, kinky yuppies, red hot reboots, a new Brad Bird film (finally) and the droids that we've been looking for (Click pic).
First-time writer/director Dane Millerd has crafted a dark, disturbing found-footage vision of the the Australian bush with his Yowie-inspired shocker, There's Something in The Pillaga (Click pic).
Despite good intentions and a big heart, Robert Connolly's family flick is a laboured, contrived slab of simple-natured sentimentality centred on the world of competitive paper-folding (Click pic).
From growing to hate the Oscars to my chat with Joe Swanberg (left), here is a meandering recollection of the issues and events from my year reporting on the business of show (Click pic).
Narrated by The Craft's Fairuza Balk, Charlie Lyne's study of 90s teen cinema is a dizzying yet deeply thoughtful plunge into the dark, confused world of the turn-of-the-century teenager (Click pic).
From her luminous starlet beginnings to the Cannes Best Actress podium, Italian actress Virna Lisi dictated her career own her terms. She has passed away, aged 78 (Click pic).
Pinoy bad boy Christopher Ad Castillo's In Darkness We Live is a hard-edged, challenging, at times downright perplexing mash-up of bank-robbery thriller and local supernatural mythology (Click pic).
Zach Clark's beautiful, bittersweet Christmas tale White Reindeer has cocaine, sex parties, strippers and a mesmerising central performance by Anna Margaret Hollyman (Click pic).
A NIGHT OF HORROR/FANTASTIC PLANET 2014: Founder and festival director Dr Dean Bertram has offered up some of the strongest women characters in modern horror (including Honeymoon's Rose Leslie; left) with his 2014 line-up (Click pic).
SCIFI FILM FESTIVAL 2014: The fear of nuclear war still looms large in the new millenium if debutant director Tim Lea's independent Australian vision 54 Days is any indication (Click pic)
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION FILM FESTIVAL 2014: Fedor Bondarchuk's rousing, bloody battle epic celebrates the excesses of war cinema as much as it does the heroism of his countrymen.
A NIGHT OF HORROR / FANTASTIC PLANET 2014: Commissioned by festival director Dr Dean Bertram, SCREEN-SPACE interviewed four filmmakers, including Ursula Dabrowsky (left) whose works have their World Premiere at the 2014 A Night of Horror / Fantastic Planet Film Festival.
Christopher Nolan's highly-anticipated space opera proves a grandly visual but plodding deep space adventure that becomes bogged down in irksome existentialism (Click pic)
Samantha Morton and Helen Hunt top an all-star cast in Steven Bernstein's low-key gem that tackles the true-life search for a genetic link amongst breast cancer sufferers (Click pic).
Disney Animation and Marvel Studios combine to present a cartoon superhero blockbuster with a big cuddly main character. Well, what did you expect? (Click pic)