Where we chat all things inaugural Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival with Fest Founder Simon Foster
Tag: Sci-fi
‘Norman’ among Australian Premieres at SciFi Film Festival 2019
“There’s a vastness of vision in the 2019 line-up”
DIVINE LOVE
A near-futurist neon-dystopian theological Brazilian sex-sci-fi isn’t what you’d normally come across at the cinema, but that’s why we have Film Festivals
UFO
Speculative, notional sci-fi, usually the domain of more abstract offerings, aren’t often melded with kids flicks. Thankfully, there were a few gutsy earthlings willing to give it a go. For UFO is above all a […]
ANON
One of those near-future escapades where the execution is barely a match for the idea, Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried give it all they’ve got in Anon. Starring respectively as a hardened detective and an […]
THE TITAN
Avatar-lite Netflix release The Titan is one you can miss. Why Sam Worthington, scheduled for not one, not two, not three, but FOUR sequels to the Fern Gully remake would headline yet another languid jaunt […]
THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX FAILS TO LAND
Are you a Star Trek fan? Then you aren’t missing much here. Dropped sensationally on Netflix the same day the trailer first aired at the Super Bowl, The Cloverfield Paradox, the third and by no […]
BLADE RUNNER 2049
Blade Runner 2049’s most enduring legacy, not unlike it’s predecessor, will no doubt be it’s ability to defy interpretation. Fairly one of the two most anticipated films of 2017, the deftness of the film’s contributions […]
SCIFI FILM FESTIVAL SET TO SCREEN FROM WEDNESDAY
“Science fiction has always been a genre of endless potential for storytellers, which stretches the imagination and offers mind-bending and jaw-dropping ideas – Sci-Fi genre films give us the opportunity to escape for the briefest […]
OTHERLIFE
Fixing on a great idea or something you haven’t seen before isn’t easy – watching any flick is that much better when you know the filmmakers have floored their premise. Home-grown Aussie sci-fi OtherLife asks […]
DIRECTOR BEN LUCAS ON THE ‘OTHERLIFE’ WORLD PREMIERE
“We distinctly set it in Perth, we set it in Australia, it is now an Australian story, we took the very broad concept that was the novel and did quite a lot of […]
LIFE
It’s very rare that a movie benefits from being both so incredibly smart and so incredibly stupid. But that’s Life. Set aboard the International Space Station where an ill-defined extra-terrestrial proceeds to terrify Ryan Reynolds, […]
MORGAN
A decrepit mansion in the middle of the woods. A tight-knit group with a secret. A monster lurking underground. Luke Scott’s (son of Ridley) sci-fi shocker Morgan may sound like your typical horror film. It’s […]
ARRIVAL
Arrival, like so many before, begs the question – how can, and will we react in the event an alien species makes contact. From much-loved Star Trek: The Next Generation’s episodes First Contact and Darmok […]
REACHING NEW AUDIENCES AT THE 20TH CANBERRA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
“99% of the films you’ll see in the Festival, you won’t have access to them at the cinema usually. They’re non-commercial films and they tell stories from people who we might not hear from otherwise.” […]
EQUALS
It’s a wonder Equals didn’t get a mainstream release, yet alone an Australian showing beyond the SciFi Film Festival. Nicholas Hoult, Kristen Stewart and Australia’s Guy Pearce and Jacki Weaver alone are enough to sell […]
THE FUTURE OF THE SCIFI FILM FESTIVAL
“I saw in the marketplace so many sci-fi films barely getting a release in Australia so I thought let’s switch it up.” New Festival Director and also FilmInk publisher Dov Kornits sat down to discuss […]
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