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Tuesday
Nov122013

REVIEWS / HERE COMES THE DEVIL

MONSTER FEST 2013: Giallo, grindhouse and a smattering of other 70's-era Euro-horror tropes provide the main source of inspiration for this otherwise underwhelming Spanish effort (Click pic).

Tuesday
Nov122013

MEDIA / TRAILERS, SHORTS AND FIRST-LOOKS

Coverage of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire world premiere; the remarkable first short film from Todd Haynes; a 2 hour career retrospective chat with James L Brooks; the scene-clip feature film, Los Angeles Plays Itself; and, the new trailer for the latest from James Franco and Jessica Chastain (Click pic)

Monday
Nov112013

FEATURES / KIER-LA JANISSE AND THE WOMEN IN HER LIFE 

MONSTER FEST 2013: Ahead of the Canadian film scholar's presentation, we nominate our favourite femme fatales (including Desiree Nosbusch, left) from Kier-La Janisse's book, House of Psychotic Women (Click pic)

Monday
Nov112013

REVIEWS / CONTRACTED

MONSTER FEST 2013: 'If it's not on, it's not on' takes on a new dimension of grave importance in Eric England's body-horror shocker, Contracted (Click pic).

Saturday
Nov092013

REVIEWS / CHOCOLATE STRAWBERRY VANILLA

MONSTER FEST 2013: Sociopaths have a new poster child in the form of Warren Thompson, the chilling ice-cream vendor creation of actor Glenn Maynard, director Stuart Simpson and writer Addison Heath in their instant cult classic, Chocolate Strawberry Vanilla (Click pic)

Thursday
Nov072013

FEATURES / WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE: THE ANDREW TRAUCKI INTERVIEW

MONSTER FEST 2013: Man-vs-nature genre maestro Andrew Traucki (Black Water; The Reef) talks about his rainforest-set supernatural thriller, The Jungle (Click pic)

Wednesday
Nov062013

REVIEWS / KRRISH 3

Third time seems to the charm for Hrithik Roshan's nice-guy superhero, as audiences flock to the Diwali blockbuster (Click pic)

Wednesday
Nov062013

INDUSTRY / FOREIGN TOONS COLOUR OSCAR'S PALETTE

Nine foreign works will be vying for Oscar consideration when the Best Animated Feature nominations are announced in January (Click pic).  

Monday
Nov042013

FEATURES / THE KILLER INSIDE ME: THE DUNCAN CUNNINGHAM INTERVIEW

MONSTER FEST 2013: From deep within the no-budget Australian genre underground emerges a directorial talent whose debut film has already taken YouTube by storm. (Click pic)

Saturday
Nov022013

REVIEWS / FREE CHINA: THE COURAGE TO BELIEVE

A stirring advocacy documentary relates two stories of Chinese human rights abuses and the willingness of the human spirit to overcome oppression (Click pic). 

Saturday
Nov022013

FEATURES / OVER THE TOP: TILT 2013 SET TO GET HEARTS PUMPING

Skate parks, ski-slopes and big wave beaches will be deserted come mid November, as Australia's extreme sports fans settle in for some safer but no less thrilling bigscreen action (Click pic).

Saturday
Nov022013

BLOG / RIP HAL NEEDHAM

Hollywood's greatest stuntman takes his final bow after a legendary career taking the hard hits for Tinseltown's biggest stars (Click pic)

Tuesday
Oct292013

REVIEWS / THOR: THE DARK WORLD

The Marvel universe expands further with the comic-book stable's latest - an artfully crafted if slightly too underdone adventure starring everyone's favourite Asgardian Avenger (Click pic).

Thursday
Oct242013

REVIEWS / FORESIGHT KILLER INSTINCT

MONSTER FEST 2013: A bloody, nutty, no-budget revenge fantasy thriller from an Aussie backyard auteur is just one of the local offerings from the southern capital's premiere horror gathering (Click pic).

Wednesday
Oct232013

REVIEWS / SHAHID

The brief but resonant life of a Mumbai human rights lawyer is afforded a compelling and moving bigscreen treatment (Click pic).