Film and culture. Not content.
Let’s be honest, Coronavirus has killed a lot of people, screwed the economy, and given a lot of people an unwanted and unaffordable holiday. In the scheme of things, not being able to go to the cinem…
For the past week I’ve been vibing on one of the coolest, more unexpected arrivals on the film landscape right now: The truly excellent, beyond entertaining, Aussie film Top Knot Detective original s…
You ever watch a movie and think “what was that really supposed to be?” or “how am I supposed to feel?”. That was Come to Daddy for me, plain and simple. I would say that going into a movie knowing a…
Australia isn’t well known for its sci-fi films, but it’s clear that with his visionary short film Carmentis, writer-director Antony Webb intends to change that mentality. Made over many years in Pert…
Taking the supernatural sensibilities of H.P. Lovecraft’s beloved 1927 sci-fi tale and transporting into contemporary America, writer-director Richard Stanley overloads Color Out of Space with enough…
What are we to do when the place where films are born ceases to be? A film can be made by people, but it merely gestates in the ether until it is released into the world and exists as it is in the onl…
People have opinions man, and they sure are shitty. Well, that’s what you can take away from the raging roar from the angry internet who is eagerly grabbing their pitchforks to burn down the steeple…
Austin Film Festival Announces the 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2020 List It’s with great pride and excitement that I share the news that South Australian screenwriter, Indianna Bell, has been named…
Cornerstone Films, Genesius Pictures and Distribution Executive Lisa Garner have formed The Reset Collective, a vertically integrated Australian content company encompassing a new model distribution a…
The re-emergence of Frank Shields 1983 thriller Hostage (aka Savage Attraction) from Umbrella Entertainment comes at a fascinating time in history. Based on Christine Maresch’s book of the same name,…
Finding the familiar during global uncertainty... I landed on an uninhabited island, accompanied by a bird and a hamster, guided by a racoon. The grass an unnaturally verdant primary green, peppered…
As humans, the way we process pain can seem mysterious. Many of us think of pain as a purely physical phenomenon. We get injured, we bruise or bleed, we heal. But when lives are on the line, it is sa…