After years of delighting children around the world, Hollywood has produced a live-action remake of The Jungle Book, a Disney classic and collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling. It’s a bittersweet affair given the sudden death of comedian Garry Shandling at […]
Donald Trump is not just the frontrunner for the Republican Presidential nomination, he is a pop culture icon who has insurmountably ingrained himself into the public consciousness. He’s more recognisable than any other nominee (with […]
17 years after The Phantom Menace, Darth Maul has finally gotten the on-screen due he deserves. A fan-made short featuring Maul as we always imagined him (read: festering in a cave, only to be unleashed […]
Spencer Susser has taken out the top prize at the Tropfest short film festival in Sydney for his stop-motion comedy Shiny alongside filmmaking partner Daniel Cloud-Campos. He sat down to share his thoughts on the importance […]
The Revenant is a visual, technical marvel which errs in only one major respect – the casting. Leo DiCaprio is everyone’s favourite to take home gold at this year’s Oscars. With five nominations to his […]
The greatest criticism levelled at ‘The Force Awakens’ is that it is entirely derivative. Glen Falkenstein explains why that isn’t a bad thing. Note: Contains major spoilers. J.J. Abrams has comfortably transitioned the Star […]
It’s quite something to turn up at an inner-city cinema on a Wednesday night, months out from Comic-con, knowing that you won’t be the only one rocking your Jedi robes. Something we once thought consigned […]
It’s not easy for Game of Thrones fans to wait a year to find out what happened after their favourite character was killed/abandoned/maimed/left for near-certain death. In the meantime, here’s a whole pile of great […]
‘Spectre’ is aptly named – not for the criminal empire that plagued Bond’s early adventures, but for its two-syllable summary of why the super-spy’s 24th outing is one of his best. Haunted by the dead […]
Jurassic World. Avengers: Age of Ultron. Furious 7. Minions. These four films soared past the $1 billion dollar mark in 2015, the cream of the crop grossing hundreds of millions for their respective studios. Dozens […]
The Matrix. The Great Gatsby. Mad Max: Fury Road. The Lego Movie. All were box office hits filmed right here in Australia; and with the news that several new major productions will be coming Down […]
The final trailer for ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ hit the interweb yesterday leading one to ask: will it be a hit or will its director be branded Jar Jar Abrams? It’s not a question […]
Mark Reeder explains how he became the accidental protagonist in the doco ‘B-Movie: Lust & Sound In West Berlin’, which dives head first into the heady post-punk scene of the ’80s, and is screening at […]
“I’d never put a bar on that. The great thing about Doctor Who is that anything is possible.” BBC One Chief Charlotte Moore confirmed this week that there’s no reason the universe’s most famous Time […]
Daniel Craig is only just suiting up for the release schedule of his fourth (and by no means final) James Bond outing, while the world is already debating who should fill the shoes of the iconic […]
Not done flexing his particular set of skills in three Hollywood blockbusters, ex-agent and super-dad Bryan Mills (originally played by Liam Neeson) is set to revive his covert career in a TV spin-off/prequel, with major […]
Following the release of the first few Harry Potter novels the film industry quickly jumped on the bandwagon, conjuring up eight movies, a theme park and a merchandising extravaganza to match Star Wars. Each film was […]
“There are feature films being made on smartphones now, so for all the finalists, your dreams can be bigger.” A presenter accurately pitched the inaugural festival to a theatre full of finalists, families and keen […]
Note: spoilers “There was a time, it seemed not so long ago, when your friends at the ages of 30 and 40 were dying, people were going to funerals week after week. It’s really important […]
What can we expect from the latest adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic? Playing to type as an unhinged professor, the first full-length trailer for James McAvoy’s turn as the obsessive Dr Frankenstein was released yesterday, […]
“Let’s try a different way of reaching audiences where they are now.” Kill Me Three Times producer Tania Chambers addressed a post-screening Q&A of the Aussie dark comedy, filmed on location in Western Australia. The […]
With only six feature films under his belt, the thirty-something filmmaker Sebastian Silva, is enjoying a retrospective at MIFF and discussed his 2013 feature ‘Crystal Fairy and the Magical Cactus’. “It’s a movie based on […]
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