REVIEWS / BIG HERO 6

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)

REVIEWS / LOST SOUL: THE DOOMED JOURNEY OF RICHARD STANLEY'S ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU

A NIGHT OF HORROR / FANTASTIC PLANET 2014: David Gregory's insightful and wildly entertaining account of a Hollywood blockbuster's implosion and the man whose reputation and artistry was left smouldering in the rubble (Clic pic).

FEATURES / PLAYING FOR THE MOB: THE CAYMAN GRANT INTERVIEW

The intricacies of organised crime's most bold foray into the American sporting landscape is captured by filmaker Cayman Grant, who, with co-director Joe Lavine, dissects the Boston College point-shaving scandal in Playing for the Mob (Click pic). 

MEDIA / TRAILERS, SHORTS AND FIRST-LOOKS

The Inherent Vice cast and crew face the opening night audience; Sofia Coppola's calling card short; Hugo Weaving headlines an Aussie ensemble in The Mule; and, director David Gregory discusses his hot doc, Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's The Island of Dr Moreau (Click pic).

FEATURES / FOR THE BOYS: THE PASCAL VUONG INTERVIEW

IMAX director Pascal Vuong has brought a densely detailed, vividly realised version of one of history's greatest battles to the world cinema's biggest screens with his epic retelling, D-Day: Normandy 1944 (Click pic).

FEATURES / A GOOD YEAR: THE NADIR CASELLI INTERVIEW

With her two latest films hitting big both home and abroad, Nadir Caselli reflects upon a year that may have set her up as Italy's next great acting export (Click pic).

FEATURES / WAR STORY: THE CATHERINE KEENER INTERVIEW

Mark Jackson's dark, challenging study of the impact of PTSD caught his leading lady by surprise, says the great Catherine Keener, who delivers a rare and complex lead performance (Click pic). 

INDUSTRY / THE 5 MOST IMPORTANT MOMENTS IN AUSTRALIA'S UNDERGROUND FILM CULTURE

MUFF 2014: As founder and festival director of Australia's oldest underground film event, Richard Wolstencroft has been at the forefront of cutting-edge, socially-minded film culture for over three decades. Here are the moments that he believes have shaped our transgressive cinema movement (Click pic).

REVIEWS / START OPTIONS EXIT

MUFF 2014: The Opening Night selection for the Melbourne Underground Film Festival could not be more appropriate for an event known for its cage-rattling agenda (Click pic).

REVIEWS / THE GREEN INFERNO

Hostel director Eli Roth finally delivers his Amazon jungle cannibal epic, The Green Inferno. Threatened with a straight-to-DVD fate in the US, is his bloody vision worthy of a bigscreen season? (Click pic)

REVIEWS / KITE

Imagine a sullen, sexed-up, psychopathic Hit Girl and you've got some idea of what to expect from India Eisley's Sawa in Ralph Ziman's adaptation of the anime hit, Kite (Click pic)

REVIEWS / HOUSEBOUND

SUFF 2014: New Zealander Gerard Johnstone's debut feature confirms that when it comes to dark secrets, scary phenomena and tastefully dubious humour, there is no place like home (Click pic).

HORROR / MIDNIGHT MADNESS SHINES LIGHT ON HORROR'S BEST AND BRIGHTEST

The Toronto Film Festival's late-night genre strand Midnight Madness, screening Sion Sono's Tokyo Tribe in 2014, has lost none of its bite after 26 years as one of cinema's most respected cult/horror/fantasy showcases (Click pic).

FEATURES / DAY OF THE ANIMALS: THE MICHAEL DAHLSTROM INTERVIEW

SUFF 2014: Director Michael Dahlstrom talks about his debut documentary feature, The Animal Condition, an examination of the methodology, ideology and controversy surrounding modern industrialized farming (Click pic).  

REVIEWS / WETLANDS

SUFF 2014: David Wnendt adapt's Charlotte Roche's YA bestseller into a brazen coming-of-age tale, driven by an unforgettable leading lady and a sweaty, sticky sense of body-realism (Click pic)