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)
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?"
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).
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).
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)
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)
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)
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)
Fearful of braving the early morning cold or the death-stare from fellow Festival goers hungry for that last ticket to the most buzzed-about film? Check out our guide to the left-of-centre films and events that all the really cool people are going to. (Click pic)
Baz Luhrmann's most ambitious project to date, a reinterpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic American novel, oozes a modern if misguided sensibility. (Click pic)