Culture Clash: Stéphane Demoustier on the battle between vision and reality in The Great Arch
The Great Arch is both surprisingly relatable and a fascinating character study of the men and women who built the past with an eye to the future.…
Michael Schwarz on his clever and fun small town slasher The Only One
One of my favourite genres is slasher films, and there's a certain joy that I get when I watch them. It's even the ones that aren't necessarily great, to me they're hangout films. You hang out with a bunch of characters, hopefully you like them, sometimes you don't.…
Fantastic Fest 2026: Ürei is a Chilling Story of Generational Trauma
There’s something about Ürei that gets under your skin without constantly reminding you that you’re watching a horror movie. Its horror comes quietly, slowly building the feeling that something is dee…
The Woman Who Dared to be Different
In praise of Waheeda Rehman, an actress who carved her own path through atypical choices to become a beloved screen icon of Indian cinema.…
The Noughts Report Part 5: 2005 - From Aeon Flux to Zathura
Welcome to the fifth instalment of the Noughts Report. Each entry revisits a year in film from the 2000s, highlighting movies big and small and the careers and genres and trends that ignited or flamed…
Tom Kerby on setting the foundation for Aussie filmmakers to embrace their own voices with the Adelaide Independent Film Festival
There's something in the water in Adelaide that's forcing a major change within the Australian film industry. The Adelaide Film Festival exists and has continued their great financial support…
Meet the film festival programmers who want you to submit your film shot on a Honda Odyssey rear view camera
So much of the discussion about cinema viewing this year has been about what cameras Christopher Nolan shot The Odyssey on. As someone who engages in film discussion as part of running this website, i…
Fantastic Fest 2026: The Squirrel is a Weird, Wonderful Little Sci-Fi
The Squirrel is one of those movies that completely won me over in ways I wasn’t expecting. Going in, all I really knew was that there was a squirrel, it wasn’t a horror movie, and I was probably goin…
Fantastic Fest 2026: The Heretiks Is Witchy, Bloody, and a Whole Lot of Fun
There’s something about a good Halloween movie that doesn’t necessarily need to reinvent the genre. Sometimes all I want is witches, creepy houses, kids running for their lives, a little blood, and en…
Filmmaker David Ward: "Lenore is about the dangers of projection."
“When you are on the phone or on the air, you have no body” Marshall McLuhan I suspect that if he’d lived to see it, McLuhan might’ve expanded that sentiment to include ‘online’. Online, we are tr…
Heart of the Beast is a simple and touching ode to the animals that stand by us
With striking imagery, a functional-enough story, and an award worthy performance from Uber the dog, it might just be David Ayer’s most inoffensive and emotionally arresting film.…
Madison Dell'Aquila on the foundation of Heretica and how to force change in the Australian film & TV industry
Madison Dell'Aquila is, as her website proudly states, "constantly looking forward to challenging what people say can't be done." That mindset is strongly applied with the new platfo…