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Film Fight Club S5E10: Framing Britney Spears & Oscar Nominations
Where we fight about Hollywood patting itself on the back and the New York Times’ dedicated Britney Spears feature + cover the inaugural Australian Womens Film Festival
Inaugural Australian Womens Film Festival & “fighting for other stories to be told”
“The very first year for the second time”
Film Fight Club S4E38: The Devil All The Time, Irresistible & SF3
Where we trek through the dark souls of rural America, according to Hollywood
Film Fight Club S4E35: The Social Dilemma
Where we fight about the social networks, streamings and screenings happening about town
Film Festivals Bridging the Void
“My son turns around to me and says, take it online, go for it”
New Filmmaker Challenges: Festivals Launch Isolation Comps
“The world has never been through a pandemic like this in our lifetime; we want to see what that world looks like from each individual’s perspective”
The Report
You probably know the story, and if you don’t The Report really, really thinks you should
Film Fight Club S3E28: KOFFIA, #MIFF2019 & OUATIH (spoilers)
Where we chat with the 10th annual Korean Film Festival in Australia Artistic Director David Park, fight about our favourite and least favourite flicks from the Melbourne International Film Festival and return to Hollywood to unpack what we’re told is the 9th film from Quentin Tarantino (spoilers discussion)
Little Monsters
It’s a strange thing to say that something is deceptively good
SUFF Launches 2019 Program
It’s that oh so disquieting, insightful, morbid mind-bogglingly fun time of year with the Sydney Underground Film Festival launching the 2019 program! The purveyors of all things colourful with classes and comps to boot – […]
66TH #SYDFILMFEST PROGRAM LAUNCHES WITH GENRE, HORROR & COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS
The truly weird, wacky and wonderful are usually left for those ‘Freak Me Out’ screenings packed by those most dedicated genre fans. Not this year. Launching the 2019 Sydney Film Festival program at Sydney’s Town […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S3E10: IRISH FILM FESTIVAL & CINEMA REBORN INTERVIEWS, ENDGAME (SPOILERS) AND THE BATTLE OF WINTERFELL
Our biggest episode of all time
PARACINEMA FEST: CLIMBING OVER BOUNDARIES
“Paracinema as a style of and approach to cinema has always been about climbing over boundaries to see what is on the other side, always obsessed with ferreting out oddities and unique films that show […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E48: ROMA, SUSPIRIA, JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL
Where we fight about Alfonso Cuaron’s latest screening at the Cine Latino Film Festival, whatever happened in Suspiria and the flicks on show at the Japanese Film Festival including One Cut of the Dead, […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E47: JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL, STAN LEE, SHOPLIFTERS, ROMA, AUSTRALIA SAYS YES & KINO KABARET
Where we chat with Japanese Film Festival Programmer Alison Groves about the latest, greatest Japanese cinema (screening in Sydney from Nov 15-25), discuss the formidable, indelible and much loved legacy of Stan Lee, […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E46: RUSSIAN RESURRECTION & WINDA FILM FESTIVAL
Where we chat all things Russian Resurrection Film Festival now in full swing with Festival Director Nicholas Maksymow and delve into the third annual Winda Film Festival with Executive Director Medika Thorpe and Artistic […]
THE COACH & RUSSIAN RESURRECTION DIRECTOR NICHOLAS MAKSYMOW ON THE FESTIVAL’S OPENING FILM
Films are rarely as ideally timed as The Coach. Fresh off the Russian team’s stellar rise to the upper echelons of the FIFA World Cup tally board to the thrill and against the expectations of […]
SGT. STUBBY: AN AMERICAN HERO
Australians will likely know the tale of Simpson and his donkey – staples of the World War who famously ferried injured soldiers to safety. Perhaps better known to American audiences is Sgt. Stubby, a terrier […]
JOURNEY’S END
War epics more often than not revolve around the key or decisive battles, the grand, sweeping calls to arms or the impact, whatever it may be, of victory and defeat. Not this one. Centred on […]
