Four of the Australian sector's most eagerly anticipated 2013 releases will screen at the influential Toronto International Film Festival in September. (Click pic)
The Godfather of Hollywood character actors is afforded due respect and fascinating insight in Sophie Huber's artfully constructed profile piece. (Click pic)
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)
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)
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)
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).
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)