By Mike Canavan I must admit upfront, Sean Connery was by far my favourite Bond. I’ve always loved one detail in the story of how read more …Continue reading The passing of a screen legend. Rest in Peace Mr. Bond
By Kirsten Stevens The 2020 federal budget has allocated A$53 million towards Australian screen production. The funding comes attached to policy reforms harmonising incentives across film and television production read more …Continue reading $53 million for screen production, but policy reforms could spell the end of the Australian feature film.
By Simon de Burton With the Impending release of the latest film in the James Bond franchise ‘No Time To Die’ I thought it might read more …Continue reading Meet The Car That Makes You Feel Like 007
By Mike Canavan It is with great concern that I read this last week HBO Max has seen fit to remove one of the greatest read more …Continue reading ‘Gone With The Wind’ – One Only Wishes They Would
Photoplay’s Jasmin Tarasin has just directed ‘Together Alone’, a personal series that documents the lives of her neighbours as the close-knit community in NSW self read more …Continue reading Peer Inside The Lives Of Others In Jasmin Tarasin’s ‘Together Alone’
By Simon Gwynn 2020 will be first year since 1953 not to feature International Festival of Creativity or its predecessors. What a few weeks ago read more …Continue reading How Should Cannes Change Ahead Of Its Return In 2021?
The Festival and Awards will not take place in 2020 Cannes Lions announces today that the annual Festival of Creativity will not take place in read more …Continue reading Cannes Lions 2020 Cancelled
By Oliver McAteer It’s official. This year’s Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity has been postponed –. Over the weekend the news came that organiser Ascential read more …Continue reading Cannes Lions Staff Told To Work From Home.
Leaping head first into the flames, //Thirteen & Co writer and director Patrick Fileti’s INFERNO delves into the heartland of Tulepec, Mexico to tell the read more …Continue reading An Explosive Town Sets Itself On Fire In Patrick Fileti’s New Film INFERNO
From this weekend, Sydneysiders have an even better reason to head to Bondi other than the famous golden sands, as Flickerfest – the world’s greatest read more …Continue reading FLiCKERFEST 2019: The world’s best short film festival is back in Bondi
By Carl Wyant. It starts slowly, a noir in harsh daylight set in Los Angeles and centered on a burned out LAPD detective . . read more …Continue reading Film Review: Destroyer
By Marcus Honesta. After all these years, it’s rare that I am moved by a TVC; let alone moved so deeply that it brings a read more …Continue reading BRING BACK GREAT CREATIVITY, & WHAT A DIFFERENCE IT MAKES.
By Marcus Honesta. Last Saturday Mrs. Honesta decided that it was a long time since we had been to the pictures. For all the millennial’s read more …Continue reading MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – FALLOUT – WHAT A CRACKER OF A FILM.
Sydney studio Animal Logic – famous for animated features such as The LEGO Movie and Peter Rabbit – have announced the launch of a new read more …Continue reading ANIMAL LOGIC LAUNCHES NEW PRODUCTION COMPANY, TRUANT PICTURES
The countdown has begun to the 12th Byron Bay International Film Festival (BBFF2018). The idyllic surf town’s most glamorous event, the 10-day festival is a read more …Continue reading Mark your diaries for the 12th Byron Bay International Film Festival 12-21 October 2018
By Marcus Honesta. Well as the silly season creaks and groans to its inevitable and final Cristal hangover. And the floating gin palaces have set read more …Continue reading WHERE HAVE ALL THE GREAT YARNS GONE?
by Brass Tacks Production Design. “In film and television, a production designer is the person responsible for the overall visual look of the production. Production read more …Continue reading SHORT FILMS: THE IMPORTANCE OF PRODUCTION DESIGN
By Marcus Honesta. With the ANZAC Commemoration just a few short days away, I thought it would be timely to reflect on much of what read more …Continue reading “FIVE CAME BACK” on Netflix: ANZAC DAY 2018: LEST WE FORGET.
By Libby Gandhi. The Ian Potter Foundation has been accused of political censorship after it withdrew support for ‘Terror Nullius’, an irreverent political film that read more …Continue reading Terror Nullius and the Problem of Private Arts Funding
Warning: This article contains images that some readers may find disturbing By Libby Gandhi Director Patrick Fileti has built his name on powerful, socially conscious read more …Continue reading Interview: Patrick Fileti X Undercurrent
By Libby Gandhi. Black Panther could have buckled under the weight of expectation. 24 years in the making, dripping with racial and historical poignancy, it read more …Continue reading Film Review: Black Panther
by Libby Gandhi. Women in Film and Television New South Wales (WIFT NSW) have partnered with UK-based Raising Films to cast a spotlight on the read more …Continue reading Raising Films arrives in Australia
By Libby Gandhi. Indigenous Director, Warwick Thornton (Samson & Delilah), is renowned for unflinching and uniquely Australian filmmaking. Sweet Country, released last week, is his read more …Continue reading FILM REVIEW: Sweet Country
By Carolyn Giardina. In 2015, a group of filmmakers including Christopher Nolan spearheaded an effort to keep Kodak — the last remaining maker of motion read more …Continue reading From ‘Dunkirk’ to ‘The Post,’ Some Key Oscar Contenders Relied on Film
By Carl Wyant. THERE WILL BE FUNGI Nothing much happens, but there’s so much to observe, to absorb, that these two hours plus pass effortlessly, read more …Continue reading Film Review: Phantom Thread
By Carl Wyant. Talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. Show-me-don’t-tell-me, the screenwriting rule, or if you prefer the guideline, is broken more times than one can read more …Continue reading Film Review: Molly’s Game
By Libby Gandhi. Vincent Van Gogh wrote that ‘we can only speak through our paintings’. Loving Vincent, a Van Gogh biopic and the world’s first read more …Continue reading Film Review: Loving Vincent
Our friends at Masters of Motion have just published their latest podcast, featuring Animal Logic’s Art Director and Production Designer, Grant Freckelton. Grant has been read more …Continue reading LISTEN: Grant Freckelton, Art Director and Production Designer
By Alex McMahon. Regular readers will know about my passionate anticipation for Blade Runner 2049. Thankfully, it did not disappoint. Director Denis Villeneuve has delivered read more …Continue reading WATCH: The sound of Blade Runner 2049
By Carl Wyant. The return to the screen of what many regard as the all time, quintessential dystopian futurist film, 35 years after the original, read more …Continue reading Blade Runner: 2049 – a review