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 […]
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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 […]
‘REARVIEW’ THE BIG WINNER AT THE SF3 SMARTFONE FLICK FEST 2017 GALA AWARDS
“There’s such an amazing networking community happening in the smartphone film space, we’re really amazed to be a part of it.” SF3 SmartFone Flick Fest Co-Director Angela Blake, having wrapped this year’s Gala Awards at […]
SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCHES PROGRAM
There isn’t any Film Festival in Sydney quite like SUFF. Going strong into it’s 11th season, the curation of the Festival’s, let’s say less than usual content, is all the more thrilling for knowing you […]
THE BEGUILED
There are two films here – you might like one of them, and you may struggle to like both. Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, based on the novel by Thomas P. Cullinan, itself adapted by Don […]
BRIGSBY BEAR
Imagine being stuck in a bunker for 25 years and your only point of pop culture reference was a bad TV show. A fish out of water in every sense, James (Saturday Night Live’s Kyle […]
GAME OF DEATH
These are the last people you would want to be stuck in a horror movie with – it makes for a great flick. The appropriately named Game of Death is only as literal as […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 2: SF3 SMARTFONE FLICK FEST, JONATHAN DEMME, STAR WARS SPIN-OFFS & COLOSSAL
For Film Fight Club Round #2 we talk to SF3 SmartFone Flick Fest co-Director Angela Blake, all things Jonathan Demme, Star Wars spin-offs and Colossal – in cinemas now. Tune in to 2SER 107.3 on […]
YOUNG AT HEART FILM FESTIVAL TO TOUR NATIONALLY
“What we tried to do is find films that are ideally suited to the seniors audience, films that are entertaining, where you can learn something, where you can reminisce and where you can embrace yourself […]
IRISH FILM FESTIVAL SET FOR ITS BIGGEST YEAR YET
“People are looking for a window on contemporary Ireland and that’s our goal. All of these films, 8 features, they’ve all been made in the last 12 months, so that’s certainly what they’re going to […]
SHORT+SWEET FILM FESTIVAL GALA FINAL
The inaugural Short + Sweet Film Festival Gala screened at Dendy Cinemas Newtown on Sunday night, will all but two of the Festival’s twelve finalists hailing from independent Australian filmmakers. “The 12 short films we […]
DIRECTOR SEVE SCHELENZ ON A NIGHT OF HORROR/FANTASTIC PLANET OPENER ‘PEELERS’
“I’m pretty excited, it’s the Australian premiere – its pretty wicked.” Canadian Director Seve Schelenz is in town for the Australian premiere of his new Festival hit Peelers, which on Thursday opened this year’s A […]
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