First Contact: Rape, Retribution and Colonial Logic in Satyajit Ray's Days and Nights in the Forest
It may present itself as a gentle comedy of manners, but Days and Nights in the Forest is a deeply confronting film once you peel the layers.…
Salt Along the Tongue is a heady and mysterious Australian Euro folk horror
Parish Malfitano’s horror/melodrama Salt Along the Tongue is made in Australia but its bones are European. Specifically, the bones are primarily Italian, but Malfitano extends the film to the many nat…
Hokum announces Damian McCarthy as a major creative voice and a horror maestro
Hokum /ˈhoʊkəm/ noun. [noncount] informal Chiefly US: foolish or untrue words or ideas. Nonsense. Irish director Damian McCarthy has been refining his craft over his three features. Caveat and Oddi…
Rabbit Trap is narratively uneven but atmospherically effective | Fantastic Film Festival Australia
“Call my name and I’ll come home.” Bryn Chainey’s faerie folk-horror Rabbit Trap is narratively uneven but atmospherically effective. Set in 1973 in Cymru (Wales) a married couple have moved from Lon…
Wolfram provides a window into the past through the eye of one of Australia's best storytellers
Warwick Thornton said that Wolfram acts as an antidote to its stunning forebear Sweet Country – a film that cost the director and his cast and crew a great deal emotionally to make. With the scars of…
Benn Wintle on the Perth filmmaking community and his debut feature Anemoia
Anemoia is my debut feature film, a story pulsing with emotions, strung by the quiet ache of lives half in reality and half in dreams. It follows Casey, a restless romantic, chasing a world that feels…
Acid Amorè Turns Heartbreak Into a Psychedelic Spiral
The Short film that didn’t quit! Written and directed by emerging filmmaker and actor Finn Middleton, Acid Amorè is a short comedy that explores the anxieties of love, after a boy receives a potentia…
Filmmaker Xavier Coy on his Aussie battler film Unremarkable
Sydney’s most unremarkable man has a story to tell. He just doesn’t know it yet. A man whose life has looked like failure after failure, always offset by optimism. Unremarkable is the next chapter in…
Ryan Gosling charts new career territory in 2026’s most unlikely and endearing hit, Project Hail Mary
Who would have guessed that the first blockbuster hit of 2026, and Amazon MGM’s biggest debut yet, would be a story about a man and a rock-shaped alien? Despite remaining culturally dominant through t…
The Deb director Rebel Wilson on being “Pretty Strong” and how musicals changed her life
Multi-hyphenate talent Rebel Wilson has added director to her list of skills with the bright new musical The Deb. Centring on Maeve (Charlotte MacInnes) a wealthy Sydney base teen who is sent to a sma…
Less hiding, more hunting - Samara Weaving returns in a gory, high-energy sequel Ready or Not 2: Here I Come
Co-directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett have stayed busy since Ready or Not, helming both Scream V and Scream VI, as well as the vampire comedy Abigail. It’s been seven years since Samara…
Forbidden Fruits: Glitter, Witchcraft, and Total Girl Gang Energy
Forbidden Fruits feels like someone took the DNA of Mean Girls, filtered it through a Free People catalogue, added a heavy dose of witchcraft, and then let it spiral into full-on slasher chaos. It’s s…