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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)

Tuesday
Jun112013

REVIEWS / LOVELACE

All too appropriately, porn icon Linda Lovelace is under appreciated - again - in the bigscreen retelling of her sordid life story. (Click pic)

Tuesday
Jun042013

BLOG / SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL 2013: SO YOU COULDN'T GET A TICKET...

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)

Sunday
Jun022013

REVIEWS / THE GREAT GATSBY

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)  

Friday
May312013

REVIEWS / A HAUNTED HOUSE

Had enough of high-brow Cannes artiness? Well, be careful what you wish for... (Click pic)

Monday
May272013

BLOG / SAPPHIC SERENADE: BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR TAKES CANNES' TOP HONOUR.

A graphic lesbian love drama proves a popular choice for the 66th Palme d'Or trophy. (Click pic).