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Sunday
May112014

HORROR / THE WOODSMAN: THE JEREMY GARDNER INTERVIEW

With US$6,000 and an all-or-nothing attitude, writer/director Jeremy Gardner crafted the cult hit The Battery, a bloody ode to mateship in a world full of zombies that has taken the indie horror scene by storm (Click pic)

Thursday
May082014

REVIEWS / MINUSCULE: VALLEY OF THE ANTS

French co-directors Helene Giraud and Thomas Szabo prove that all you need to make a great adventure film is a ladybug, an ant and a tin of sugar in this bigscreen reworking of their TV hit, Minuscule (Click pic)

Thursday
May082014

BLOG / SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL: 'WOW MOMENTS' IN THE 2014 PROGRAM

Bobcat Goldthwait's Bigfoot thriller Willow Creek (pictured, left) is amongst the left-field programming choices that has made the 2014 Sydney Film Festival program one of the best in years (Click pic) 

Tuesday
May062014

FEATURES / THE WARRIOR WAY: THE TEMUERA MORRISON INTERVIEW

One of New Zealand's acting greats, Temuera Morrison reflects upon a career filled with iconic screen characters, none morseo than the towering brute, Jake Heke, from Once Were Warriors (Click pic)

Saturday
May032014

REVIEWS / THE BABADOOK

Sundance buzz suggests that Australian Jennifer Kent's nailbiting feature debut deserves to be spoken of in the same breath as haunted-house classics The Shining, The Others and The Amityville Horror (Click pic)

Friday
May022014

INDUSTRY / THE ROCKET TAKES FEATURE DIRECTOR HONOURS AT PEER-VOTED GALA

Kim Morduant and Sophie Turkiewicz take feature film honours at the Australian Director's Guild award ceremony in Sydney tonight (Click pic)

Friday
May022014

REVIEWS / 3D NAKED AMBITION

Chapman To becomes an unlikely stud to the AV industry starlets of Tokyo in Lee Kung-lok's bouyant, bouncy 3D romp, Naked Ambition (Click pic).

Friday
May022014

REVIEWS / ICEMAN 3D

Action superstar Donnie Yen and first-time director Wing-cheong Law can expect a chilly response from critics and audiences alike to their ill-concieved fantasy epic, Iceman (Click pic)

Tuesday
Apr292014

FEATURES / REQUIEM FOR A VILLAGE: THE KIMBERLEY JOSEPH INTERVIEW

The 90's soap-opera starlet makes her debut as a documetarian with The Polygon, a heartbreaking chronicle of a Kazakhstan village suffering through the ill-effects of nuclear pollution (Click pic)

Monday
Apr282014

BLOG / AMITABH BACHCHAN AND THE LEGEND OF DEEWAAR

Amitabh Bachchan's arrival in Melbourne for the 2014 Indian Film Festival prompts a re-evaluation of the film that made him Bollywood's biggest star, Yash Chopra's 1975 crime epic Deewaar (Click pic)

Tuesday
Apr152014

FEATURES / MEDICINE MAN: THE DAVID GOULD INTERVIEW

Wellington-based expat David Gould observed first-hand the slick, sublime cinematic storytelling of his boss, Peter Jackson, and has parlayed that knowledge into his first feature, The Cure (Click pic).

Monday
Apr142014

FEATURES / WONG KAR-WAI BACK IN FAVOUR WITH HONG KONG AWARDS BODY

Best Actress honouree Zhang Ziyi took home one of the 12 trophies snared by Wong Kar-Wai's The Grandmaster in its domination of the 33rd annual Hong Kong Film Awards (Click pic).

Friday
Apr112014

MEDIA / TRAILERS, SHORTS AND FIRST-LOOKS

A surreal omnibus short from 42 of international cinema's wildest visionaries; festivals celebrating political radicalism and human rights issues; a first look at Jon Favreau's Chef, Opening Night pic at SXSW 2014; and, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of John McTiernan's action classic, Die Hard (Click pic)  

Monday
Apr072014

REVIEWS / SUNSHINE ON LEITH

Scottish audiences walked 500 miles to see this toe-tapper, but will international audiences warm to the journey (and accents) of an Edinburgh clan and their romantic highs and lows (Click pic)

Monday
Apr072014

REVIEWS / NURSE 3D

The Amazonian dimensions of Paz de la Huerta acutely capture the menace and sensuality of a psychopathic nurse in Doug Aarniokoski's grindhouse ode, Nurse 3D (Click pic).