Two years ago, an artificial intelligence robot called Benjamin wrote a screenplay after absorbing hundreds of others taken from science fiction films and television. Rudimentary, the finished product nonetheless bore basic tenets and tropes of […]
Category: Festivals
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E18: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAM LAUNCH
Where we chat to Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley fresh off the program launch about this year’s line-up, fight about our favourite picks and what you should go see and chat to […]
IRISH FILM FESTIVAL – FILMMAKER INTERVIEWS & OPENING NIGHT
The Film Fight Club crew’s coverage of the Irish Film Festival 2018 – taking place over four days at Paddington’s Chauvel Cinema, we reviewed the opening night flick Maze, spoke with No Stone Unturned Producer Trevor Birney […]
PROGRAM LAUNCH: 25 FLICKS TO CATCH AT THE SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL
If finding the quickest routes from Dendy Newtown to Circular Quay to the State Theatre is a challenge you face yearly, then you’re as excited for the Sydney Film Festival as the hundreds of eager […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E17: CINEMA REBORN INTERVIEW, LOVELESS, UNSANE & GUERNSEY
Where we chat to Geoffrey Gardner from Cinema Reborn – the inaugural Festival kicks off Thursday night at AFTRS – and fight about the latest in Russian cinema, the exact of opposite of […]
FOURTH ANNUAL IRISH FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCHES IN SYDNEY
The fourth annual Irish Film Festival kicked off in it’s 2018 run at Paddington’s Chauvel Cinema with a sold-out screening of Maze, based on the 1983 breakout of a heavily-fortified prison in Northern Ireland. The […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E15: IRISH FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR ENDA MURRAY, FOR FILM’S SAKE & RAMPAGE
Where we chat to Irish Film Festival Director Enda Murray about this year’s program which kicks off this week, our favourite flick’s from For Film’s Sake and the aptly titled RAMPAGE – Wednesdays […]
CHAPPAQUIDDICK
There’s a fantastic movie in cinemas now. It’s a dark thriller with some counter-intuitively comic elements, telling of a tumultuous period decades-past. It’s called The Death of Stalin. There is also Chappaquiddick. The film’s events, […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E14: ISLE OF DOGS & A QUIET PLACE
Where we fight about how much we love dogs and the horrifying sounds of silence – Wednesdays 7:30PM on 2SER 107.3
ISLE OF DOGS
Isle of dogs, a lot more than this movie. In this latest foray into animation by the Fantastic Mr. Fox Director, a young boy crash-lands on a Japanese island, heaped with the nation’s deserted pups, in […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E13: FOR FILM’S SAKE DIRECTOR SOPHIE MATHISEN, THE SPANISH FILM FESTIVAL & ABRACADABRA
Where we chat to For Film’s Sake Director Sophie Mathisen about this year’s line-up and fight about Abracadabra, screening at the upcoming Spanish Film Festival – tune in Wednesdays 7:30PM on 2SER 107.3
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 31: JUSTICE LEAGUE AND THE JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL
Where we are all in for Batfleck’s latest and all our favourite flicks from this year’s Japanese Film Festival – join Glen Falkenstein, Chris Evans & Virat Nehru on Film Fight Club, Wednesdays […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 30: JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL, BORG VS MCENROE, LUCKY & BLADE OF THE IMMORTAL
Where we fight about whether John McEnroe was well cast as Shia LaBeouf, Harry Dean Stanton’s ‘Lucky,’ how many deaths you can fit into a movie in ‘Blade of the Immortal’ and chat […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 29: MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS & THE BRITISH FILM FESTIVAL
Where we fight about Kenneth Branagh’s take on Belgium’s most famous detective and the only thing more English than Kenneth Branagh – the British Film Festival, with special guest Adelle Drover from Roll […]
WINDA FILM FESTIVAL ARTISTIC DIRECTOR PAULINE CLAGUE ON CELEBRATING INDIGENOUS CINEMA
Now in it’s second year, the WINDA Film Festival, dedicated to showcasing the work of Indigenous filmmakers around the world, is set to kick off in Sydney this November. WINDA Artistic Director Pauline Clague sat […]
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE BRITISH FILM FESTIVAL
“We are bringing to audiences the best and most high profile British films available and I know that this is our strongest line up yet.” British Film Festival Director Kim Petalas will be showcasing 20 […]
HOW TO TALK TO GIRLS AT PARTIES
One of the latest to hit Aussie shores from Cannes, Neil Gaiman fans won’t be the only ones left wanting. The prolific writer somehow only a marginal fixture in Hollywood, How to Talk to Girls […]
MARY SHELLEY
Mary Shelley may have liked her most recent biopic, but she wouldn’t have written it. Starring Elle Fanning in the lead role, together with Douglas Booth (Percy Shelley), Tom Sturridge (Lord Byron) and Bel Powley […]
THAT GOOD NIGHT
John Hurt’s last film yet released, itself a reminder of our own merciless mortality, That Good Night’s formidable focus is regretfully the subject of this ineffectual production. Ralph (Hurt), a reclusive, clearly affluent scribe, whose […]
CARGO
Cargo is every emerging filmmaker’s dream. A short, lauded at Tropfest, captures studio eyes with a premise more than worthy of a fully funded feature, here adapted to thrilling if flawed effect. Taking over as […]
SWEET COUNTRY
Sometimes it’s never too early to reckon a film has the makings of a classic. Sweet Country’s setting may be of a time and place yet it is a film that figures well beyond it’s […]
LOVING VINCENT
Taking painting by numbers to a whole new level – Vincent Van Gogh is fittingly the subject of the first ever fully painted feature film. A panoply of the Dutch master’s works are intermingled throughout […]
