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World Premiere Of Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line To Open Sydney Film Festival 2024

Press Releases Apr 25, 2024 3 min read
Articles australian film documentary Sydney Film Festival

PRESS RELEASE The 71st Sydney Film Festival announces it will present the World Premiere of Midnight Oil: The Hardest Line for its Opening Night Gala on Wednesday June 5, at the State Theatre followe…

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First Look At Horror Film "Break A Leg" From Kaitlyn Boye And Brendan Kelly As It Wraps Production In Canberra

Press Releases Apr 25, 2024 2 min read
Articles australian film

PRESS RELEASE Principal photography has just wrapped on Australian feature film BREAK A LEG, from local Canberra filmmakers and actors Kaitlyn Boyé and Brendan Kelly. The film was shot on location at…

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Evil Does Not Exist Again Proves Ryûsuke Hamaguchi is One of Japan’s Most Complex and Indefinable Storytellers

Evil Does Not Exist Again Proves Ryûsuke Hamaguchi is One of Japan’s Most Complex and Indefinable Storytellers

Nadine Whitney Apr 25, 2024 5 min read
Films Reviews Drama Evil Does Not Exist Japanese Cinema Review Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi won an Academy Award for Drive My Car based on a Haruki Murakami story. Suddenly after years of patiently making precise and complex cinema he was a “super star.” The same year his p…

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Luca Guadagnino's Challengers is One of the Most Salacious Movies of the Year

Luca Guadagnino's Challengers is One of the Most Salacious Movies of the Year

Kahn Duncan Apr 25, 2024 5 min read
Films Reviews Comedy Drama Luca Guadagnino Mike Faist Review tennis Zendaya Josh O'Connor

Luca Guadagnino's Challengers is one of the most salacious movies of the year - turning the sport of tennis into a sexy thrill ride. The director's recent filmography has had him channel the m…

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Interview with Jazz Money at MWFF: WINHANGANHA ‘is for mob’

Interview with Jazz Money at MWFF: WINHANGANHA ‘is for mob’

Ruby O’Sullivan-Belfrage Apr 22, 2024 5 min read
Interviews australian film Interview Jazz Money WINHANGANHA

Amidst the gathering smell of smoke WINHANGANHA unfixes a history from the hallowed archive wall. So it goes, like a dreamscape: Warwick Thornton’s Samson rocks his body to music in a fluorescent midn…

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C. J. "Fiery" Obasi's Mami Wata is a Beguiling Fable Told with a Monochromatic Eye

C. J. "Fiery" Obasi's Mami Wata is a Beguiling Fable Told with a Monochromatic Eye

Kahn Duncan Apr 17, 2024 4 min read
Films Reviews Articles Drama Fantastic Film Festival Australia Mami Wata Review

The tide ebbs and flows. There is a giving and taking across the horizon. The stark blackness of the night contrasts against the crashing waves that bask in white light. The water in the foreground la…

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Freud's Last Session Director Matt Brown Talks Designing a Debate Between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis

Freud's Last Session Director Matt Brown Talks Designing a Debate Between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis

Connor Dalton Apr 17, 2024 10 min read
Interviews Drama Freud's Last Session Interview Matt Brown Matthew Goode

Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis were trailblazers in their respective fields. Freud was the founder of psychoanalysis, which irreversibly changed how we think about matters such as sexuality, behaviour,…

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Fantastic Film Festival Australia Artistic Director Hudson Sowada Trips the Light (and Dark) Fantastic in this Interview

Fantastic Film Festival Australia Artistic Director Hudson Sowada Trips the Light (and Dark) Fantastic in this Interview

Nadine Whitney Apr 17, 2024 4 min read
Interviews australian film Fantastic Film Festival Hudson Sowada Interview

Fantastic Film Festival Australia (FFFA) 2024 presents an eclectic program of 24 feature length films as well as a program of 14 short films from Australia and around the world, promising a kaleidosco…

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Late Night with the Devil is a Faustian Pact with an Aussie Punch

Late Night with the Devil is a Faustian Pact with an Aussie Punch

Nadine Whitney Apr 11, 2024 5 min read
Films Reviews australian film Colin Cairnes David Dastmalchian horror Late Night with the Devil Laura Gordon Review Rhys Auteri

“Dreamer awake, dreamer awake, dreamer awake” “The greatest trick the devil played was to convince the world he wasn’t real” or so the quote goes. The greatest trick Cameron and Colin Cairnes are pla…

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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is Full of Titan Bravado and Computer-generated Excess

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is Full of Titan Bravado and Computer-generated Excess

Kahn Duncan Apr 11, 2024 5 min read
Films Reviews Dan Stevens Godzilla Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire Kaylee Hottle King Kong Rebecca Hall Review

It is almost strange to pump one's fist in the air as massive, burly CGI creations take gargantuan punches at each other. The creators of the MonsterVerse are deliberately provoking the reactions…

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Sports Epic Maidaan Opens in Australian on 10 April

Press Releases Apr 10, 2024 2 min read
Articles Maidaan

PRESS RELEASE One of India’s largest film production houses, Zee Studios in conjunction with renowned Indian film producers Boney Kapoor, Arunava Joy Sengupta, Akash Chawla have announced the worldwi…

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Katherine Grace on Working with Friend Holly Dodd on the Horror Short Alison & Betty

Katherine Grace on Working with Friend Holly Dodd on the Horror Short Alison & Betty

Andrew F Peirce Apr 10, 2024 1 min read
Interviews Podcasts australian film Drama Interview Katherine Grace

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. There's something in the water in Perth that leads to a c…

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