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A good jump scare is like a cheap cheeseburger: the hungrier you are, the better it is. That’s true of the scares in Insidious: The Red Door. However, the fifth entry in this ongoing series is more th…
The New Boy, written and directed by Australian powerhouse Warwick Thornton, tells the story of the unnamed New Boy (Aswan Reid) as he is delivered in a sack to a remote monastery in the dead of night…
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to wade through the distinctly overlong and uneven Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, or MI7. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) returns after the eve…
This interview contains discussions of domestic violence, sexual assault, and trauma. Director Tosca Looby’s work over the past few years has held a microscope up to misogyny in Australian politics w…
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Adele Lim’s hilarious Joy Ride was originally titled The Joy Fuck Club, which is pithy and biting in its own way, but implies a one-dimensionality to the film which it steadfastly avoids. Yes, it is c…
Sophie Linnenbaum’s feature film The Ordinaries is set in an imagined dystopia where the world is a film set and three strata of society emerge: Main Characters, Supporting Characters, and Outtakes. A…
I Like Movies screens at Perth's Revelation Film Festival on July 12 and 14. For Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) the protagonist of Chandler Levack’s debut feature I Like Movies the title is s…
Riceboy Sleeps screens at Perth's Revelation Film Festival on July 13 and 14. Canadian director Anthony Shim’s immigrant drama Riceboy Sleeps is a film that juxtaposes emotional distance and inti…
More stunning than Avatar: The Way of Water, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the big-event film of the year. It is a concentrated blast of colour and soundv– the type so dense that you’ll have…
PRESS RELEASE Despite a renewed industry focus to support Australian films the industry is still facing significant challenges, with 5 in 6 (84%)[1] saying local filmmakers do not get adequate fundin…