REVIEWS / AVARICE

From his Perth base, John V Soto continues to roll out solid genre pics that get serious play globally. His latest is the action/thriller, Avarice (Click here) 

REVIEWS / TRUE SPIRIT

Director Sarah Spillane and star Teagan Croft afford the seafaring accomplishments of Jessica Watson the respect and excitement they command in Netflix's rousing biopic (Click here)

FEATURES / OSCAR NOMINATIONS DOMINATED BY…IRELAND, GERMANY AND HOT DOG FINGERS.

An offbeat sci-fi indie, a German combat classic and an Irish ode to a disintegrating friendship lead a new-look batch of Academy Award hopefuls (Click here)

TELEVISION / THE BEST TELEVISION SHOWS OF 2022

With COVID still keeping much of the world couchbound, small-screen content providers swung for the fences in 2022 (Click here)

REVIEWS / THE COST

All the moral issues that generally arise in 'vigilante cinema' rear their ugly heads in Matthew Holmes' skilfully crafted Australian indie, The Cost (Click here) 

FEATURES / THE SCREEN-SPACE BEST FILMS OF 2022

Theatres waited for patrons post-COVID...and waited...and waited. It took a healthy dose of '80s nostalgia to bring them back in droves, but it's not like there were no films worthy of your movie-going dollar in 2022 (Click here) 

BLOG / THIS YEAR'S CINEMATIC BIN WATER: THE WORST FILMS OF 2022

Cash-grab sequels, video game adaptations, pointless remakes - the usual Hollywood dreck makes our Worst Films of 2022 list. But there's some misbegotten indie sludge and lots of streamer filler, too (Click here)  

REVIEWS / AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

Thirteen years on, James Cameron envisions a vast interplanetary aqua-scape...then plods through a 'family first' message film rife with diminishing returns (Click here)

REVIEWS / POKER FACE

With his creative input spanning multiple disciplines, there's no hiding for Russell Crowe when the finger-pointing starts on his latest, Poker Face (Click here)

INDUSTRY / MERCURY CX PITCHING HARD FOR DOLLARS, INDUSTRY SUPPORT AS CLOSURE BECKON

The iconic Adelaide-based film collective Mercury CX is desperately fighting to keep its doors open (Click here)

INDUSTRY / CASTING SECTOR HERALDS NEXT GEN TALENT POOL IN RISING STARS LIST

Australia's acting future has had a spotlight shone on them by the Casting Guild of Australia as part of the 2022 Rising Stars list (Click here)

TELEVISION / APPLE TV+ ADDS BAD SISTERS SEASON 2 TO LIST OF RECENT RENEWALS

The Garvey sisters, five ladies who struggle to find meaningful relationships on-screen in Bad Sisters, find love from AppleTV+, with a second season just greenlit (Click here).

REVIEWS / THE HAUNTING OF THE MURDER HOUSE

YouTubers desperate for online eyeballs can't believe what they find when they lock themselves into a real fixer-upper, in this derivative no-brainer from The Rudnicki Brothers (Click here)

WORLD CINEMA / PREVIEW: 2022 JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL

A free sidebar featuring master filmmaker Mikio Naruse, including his 1955 masterpiece Floating Clouds (pictured), is one of many highlights in this year's Japanese Film Festival (Click here)

INDUSTRY / PRAYERS ANSWERED AS CHURCH CITY AUDS FLOCK TO ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL

Returning post-COVID to a full live-event roster of screenings and sidebars, the Adelaide Film Festival hits big with audiences and filmmakers alike (Click here).