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About halfway through Sam Mendes’ latest film Empire of Light, I began to seriously question the nature of perspective in cinematic storytelling. Who’s point of view are we seeing these events from? H…
Jonathon “John” Wick (aka Jardani Jovanovich, aka ‘The Baba Yaga’) has been through a lot from his inception in Chad Stahelski’s John Wick in 2014. The original film co-directed by David Leitch saw th…
PRESS RELEASE Drawn by the prospect of gathering face-to-face after two previous hybrid and virtual outings, the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) welcomed 820 documentary and fa…
PRESS RELEASE ‘Force of Nature: The Dry 2’, the follow up to the 2021 Australian box office smash hit The Dry, will hit Australian and New Zealand cinemas on August 24, 2023. The film is based on th…
PRESS RELEASE Launching in Australia today on Prime Video, Apple iTunes, Google Play and Microsoft, award-winning documentary, The Last Tourist addresses the real impact of mass tourism as it travers…
Australian boutique physical media label Imprint Films have been doing a truly marvellous job at rescuing indispensable films from obscurity. Not only do they provide beautifully restored prints, each…
Nitin Vengurlekar, the star and screenwriter (based on his play of the same name) of Platon Theodoris’ The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour has spoken in an interview how he abhors metaphors. He has some g…
In the space of two years Macedonian-Australian director Goran Stolevski has emerged as a cinematic talent who can vividly craft a philosophical treatise on what it is to live wrapped in the skin of a…
David F. Sandberg’s 2019 Shazam! felt like a breath of fresh air in the grimdark world of the DCEU. A tale about Billy Batson (Asher Angel/Zachary Levi); a kid rejected by his family, the foster syste…
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PRESS RELEASE The Last Daughter, winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2022 Adelaide Film Festival, will have a national cinema release from June 15. The Last Daughter, co-directe…
PRESS RELEASE Perth’s first teen horror TikTok series THE CURSE OF BABA YAGA hits the small screens of smartphones world-wide from Friday 7 April. A found footage series following two high school bo…