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Writer turned documentarian Sean Wilsey presented his compelling, funny, and riveting debut film IX XI at the 2023 Perth Revelation Film Festival. It’s a curious location to host a work in progress sc…
Director Kenneth Branagh and screenwriter Michael Green made a canny choice in deciding to adapt one of Agatha Christie’s lesser-known works for A Haunting in Venice. Although, to call it an adaptatio…
Jaime Reyes’ character Blue Beetle will be familiar to comic book readers but not generally to a wider audience. A legacy character much like Ryan Choi who took over the mantle of The Atom from Ray Pa…
Mark Leonard Winter is a somewhat ubiquitous Australian film and television presence. An excellent character actor who believes firmly in his craft. Taking on a new role as the writer and director of…
Genre defying French director François Ozon heads back into 8 Femmes territory for his witty and distinctly feminist adaptation of the 1934 play Mon crime by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil. The adapt…
As I reflect on 2023, my path through this difficult year has been tinged with the continuous destruction of the Australian ecosystem. As I’ve travelled across my home state of Western Australia, I’ve…
There has recently been a slew of directors reminiscing on their experience with cinema and art how it shaped them. From Spielberg’s self-lacerating The Fabelmans, to James Gray’s ‘portrait of the art…
Once upon a time James Wan decided to make a film about real life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren (Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga). In 2013 The Conjuring universe was born and has thu…
Mark H. Rapaport’s debut feature Hippo knows it is profoundly wicked and distasteful. We often talk about films being like the love child of other films, but Hippo is distinctly a hate child. Yorgos L…
It almost seems unfair to discuss Mel Eslyn’s brilliant Biopshere. Star and co-writer Mark Duplass has been urging people to go in completely blind to the film, and frankly this is the best way to exp…
PRESS RELEASE The award-winning Australian drama, SHAYDA, from Iranian-Australian debut writer and director Noora Niasari, has been announced as the official Australian submission for Best Internatio…
PRESS RELEASE After winning Aussie audiences over with his heart-warming feature June Again, writer and director JJ Winlove has now turned his hand to a genre bending, interactive digital series aime…