Where we fight about everything we’ve seen at the Sydney Film Festival and everything you should see with the Film in Revolt crew – Wednesdays 7:30PM on 2SER and Sundays 12-1PM during the […]
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THE SEEN AND UNSEEN
Most stories are better without a sledgehammer to drive it’s point home, though subtlety doesn’t always help. Set in rural Bali, 10 year-old Tantri, contending with her gravely ill twin brother who is no longer […]
DON’T WORRY HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT
The presence of the ever-talented Joaquin Phoenix is enough to recommend a movie, even this one. Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far on Foot, Gus Van Sant’s biopic of Oregon cartoonist John Callahan who passed […]
UPGRADE
Upgrade is a B-Movie and when the audience and the film itself embraces this, everyone is going to have a lot of fun. Set in semi-futuristic USA, Grey (Logan Marshall-Green), paralysed following a freak attack […]
GHOST STORIES
Have you ever wanted to be scared by one of those old spook houses before they went out of fashion? Ghost Stories will remind you of one of the rides you went on at Luna […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E22: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL CLASHES & SOLO
Where we fight about our Sydney Film Festival schedules and what you just can’t miss, plus our extended review of Solo’s so long-awaited solo outing – Wednesdays 7:30PM on 2SER + Sundays June […]
MELBOURNE DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCHES PROGRAM
With documentaries proving ever a Festival favourite, the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival has released it’s annual program set to kick off in July. With features ranging from New Zealand to Japan, from George Michael […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E21: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR NASHEN MOODLEY
Where we put aside our fighting to chat all things Sydney Film Festival 2018 with Festival Director Nashen Moodley, the creative directions for this year’s program and what you can’t miss – Wednesdays […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 22: SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL WRAP & IT
Where we fight about our favourite SUFF flicks after four mind-bending days including Drib, Tragedy Girls, Dawson City: Frozen Time, The Endless & Where is Rocky II, plus the return of pop culture’s most […]
TRAGEDY GIRLS
A starry night. An ageing mid-west bridge. Two teenagers in the back of a car. A bump in the night. A savage murderer. Tragedy Girls’ opener may sound like a typical horror film. Thankfully, it’s […]
FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL OPENS SUFF 2017
Packing Marrickville’s Factory Theatre with lovers of the strange, perplexing and endearingly gaudy, the first-ever Australian appearance of Found Footage Festival founders Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher kicked off the 11th annual Sydney Underground Film […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 21: SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR STEFAN POPESCU
Where we chat to Sydney Underground Film Festival Director Stefan Popescu about this year’s Festival and incredible line-up – join Glen Falkenstein, Chris Evans & Virat Nehru Wednesdays 7:30PM on 2SER 107.3 For […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 19: THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD, KILLING GROUND, ALI’S WEDDING AND THE SYDNEY LATIN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL
Where we fight about Samuel L. Jackson’s latest action extravaganza, Aussie cinema breakouts Killing Ground and Ali’s Wedding and our chat with this year’s Sydney Latin American Film Festival programmer and what to […]
FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL TO MAKE AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE AT SUFF
“People who come to SUFF (Sydney Underground Film Festival) expect to see something they’ve never seen and we will definitely deliver on that.” Found Footage Festival co-founder Joe Pickett, now featuring at the Edinburgh Fringe […]
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