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Wednesday
Jul242013

REVIEWS / HARRY DEAN STANTON: PARTLY FICTION

The Godfather of Hollywood character actors is afforded due respect and fascinating insight in Sophie Huber's artfully constructed profile piece. (Click pic)

Tuesday
Jul232013

REVIEWS / INTERIOR. LEATHER BAR

James Franco toys with fanbase perception in this offbeat, awkward docudrama that explores the mystery and meaning of excised hardcore footage from the Al Pacino film, Cruising. (Click pic)

Monday
Jul152013

BLOG / REVELATIONS 2013 REVIEW: THE WEST FEST'S BEST.

As the sun sets on the west coast's leading film event, we look back at the highlights of what many consider to be the best programme in the 16 year history of the festival they call Revelations. (Click pic) 

Sunday
Jul142013

REVIEWS / PACIFIC RIM

Guilermo de Toro finally gets the mega-budget go-ahead for a premise that should soar under his vision and intelligence, the likes of which are too rare in fantasy films. But is Pacific Rim everything his fans have been hoping for? (Click pic)

Tuesday
Jul092013

REVIEWS / THE END OF TIME

Indian funerals, dead grasshoppers, lava flows and the Hadron Collider. Canadian cine-philosopher Peter Mettler explores man's relationship to time in a dazzling but gratingly impenetrable visual odyssey (Click pic).

Wednesday
Jul032013

FEATURES / STREETS OF FIRE: THE BRENNA SANCHEZ INTERVIEW

Documentarian Brenna Sanchez has captured a year in the life of the fire department that struggles daily to stop her hometown of Detroit from burning to the ground. The film, Burn, opens the Revelations Film Festival this week on Australia's west coast. (Click pic)

Tuesday
Jul022013

REVIEWS / THE LONE RANGER

Uh-oh, Silver.... The latest effort from Hollywood to relaunch our collective memory as a profit-focussed initiative is an odd, uneven action-comedy which will leave many scratching their heads, asking "What happened?" and "Why bother?"  

Thursday
Jun272013

REVIEWS / THE CONJURING

Fascinating facts meet fanciful fiction in James Wan's creaky, creepy account of a true-life haunting, The Conjuring. (Click pic)

Tuesday
Jun252013

FEATURES / DEEP IN THE HEART: THE DON SWAYNOS INTERVIEW

Austin, Texas, may not seem like your typical hub of independent filmmaking creativity, but as Don Swaynos shows with his giddyingly original new film, Pictures of Superheroes, there is nothing typical about the films coming from there (Click pic).

Tuesday
Jun252013

REVIEWS / THE FINAL MEMBER

An Icelandic collector's never-ending search for the most elusive of mementos brings him into contact with a brash American in this winning and warm documentary (Click pic).

Sunday
Jun162013

REVIEWS / THE WAY, WAY BACK

Coming-of-age tales don't come smarter or sweeter than the new film from the Oscar-winning writers of The Descendants. (Click pic)

Saturday
Jun152013

REVIEWS / WORLD WAR Z

Star Brad Pitt and director Marc Forster turn author Max Brook's global zom-pocalypse account into a thrilling mainstream spin on an undead uprising. (Click pic)

Saturday
Jun152013

REVIEWS / AFTER EARTH

The career of M Night Shyamalan continues its downward spiral with his sci-fi bore, After Earth, and this time he's taking Will Smith and wanna-be-star son Jaden along for the ride. (Click pic)

Friday
Jun142013

REVIEWS / FINAL CUT - LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

Hungarian auteur Gyorgy Palfi's magnificent montage tribute to the romance of cinema may emerge as the best film of the 2013 Sydney Film Festival. (Click pic)

Tuesday
Jun112013

REVIEWS / THE RAMBLER

A wild Lynch-ian odyssey through the American midwest, complete with fleshy monsters, UFOs and country music is, quite inexplicably, not as cool as it sounds. (Click pic)