REVIEWS / THE MANSION

A makeshift family unit must survive a post-apocalyptic middle America in Andrew Robertson's stunning first feature. (Click pic)

REVIEWS / THE HOST

Though Twilight-size fandom seems unlikely, Andrew Niccol's adaptation of Stephanie Meyer's teen alienation novel may not be as dire as early reviews suggest. (Click pic)

REVIEWS / WET AND RECKLESS

Jason Trost and Lucas Till hit Thailand in a roided-up, hedonistic fury only to find their celebrity on the wane in this parody of party-boy reality fame. (Click pic) 

INDUSTRY / NIGHTMARE FACTORY: A GREG NICOTERO RETROSPECTIVE

Ahead of the Australian premiere of a doco that charts his rise to Hollywood royalty, we check out the most influential moments in the career of visual makeup effects icon and The Walking Dead showrunner, Greg Nicotero. (Click pic)

REVIEWS / THE TAKING

If you go down in the woods today, expect demon cultists, bloodthirsty subtitled entities and work of frightening if confounding vision from LA production outfit, The BAPartists. (Click pic)

REVIEWS / THANATOMORPHOSE

A young artist's decaying body provides debut director Eric Falardeau with chilling inspiration in the hard to watch (and pronounce) body-horror nightmare, Thanatomorphose. (Click pic)

REVIEWS / THE HISTORY OF FUTURE FOLK

If red buckets suddenly become the must-have fashion item of 2013, we'll know The History of Future Folk has found the audience it deserves. (Click pic) 

REVIEWS / SPACE MILKSHAKE

A crew of four aboard a deep-space garbage barge must fight off the B-movie by-product of a rubber duckie from a parallel universe in Canadian Armen Evrensel's goofy crowdpleaser. (Click pic) 

INDUSTRY / LITTLE FCCAS: THE 2013 FILM CRITICS CIRCLE OF AUSTRALIA AWARDS

Australia's only official critic group handed out their annual gongs at a refreshingly ego-free industry gathering in inner-Sydney tonight. (Click pic)

FEATURES / THE SHORT FILM THAT SAVED JANE CAMPION.

It took a 2006 portmanteau project that very few ever saw to reignite the creative spark within Oscar-winner Jane Campion and set her on course to her latest epic project, Top of the Lake. (Click pic)

REVIEWS / SLEEPWALK WITH ME

Mike Birbiglia's leading man debut doesn't ask too many questions, though one springs to mind - is he the next Tom Hanks or the next Rick Moranis? (Click pic)

REVIEWS / FOUND

From America's blue-state mid-west comes Scott Schirmer's deep-red riff on coming-of-age and the alienation it requires to be sociopathically-inclined (Click pic)

REVIEWS / MON AMI

Canadian Rob Grant dabbles in the blackly-funny stylings of kidnapping, murder and friendship with his Cohen-esque comedy-thriller. (Click pic)

REVIEWS / COCKNEYS VS ZOMBIES

When a plague of abercrombies takes over, always heavily arm the old people first. (Click pic)

REVIEWS / THE TSUNAMI AND THE CHERRY BLOSSOM

On March 11 2011, the nation of Japan was devastated by one of the largest tsunamis in modern history. Filmmaker Lucy Walker grabbed her camera and was in country within days. The Tsunami and The Cherry Blossom is her account of the first spring after the disaster. (Click pic)