Recluse is an unsettling and uneasy journey into the modern uncanny
A contemporary Gothic horror where the aspect of dread permeates both the house and the people who spend time there.…
Filmmaker Matthew J. Thompson on his Melbourne International Comedy Festival Audience Choice Award winning short film “I Fell in Love with My Sleep Paralysis Demon”
What happens when Melbourne’s biggest commitment-phobe meets its most emotionally unavailable bachelor, who also happens to be a literal demon? I Fell in Love with My Sleep Paralysis Demon follows Sar…
Jaume Claret Muxart journeys along the Danube in the beautiful, beguiling and bewildering Strange River
A story without answers, choosing seductive visual composition and familial convergence over the trappings of a traditional coming-of-age narrative.…
The North is a beautiful decree for digital detoxification
Bart Schrijver’s film The North begins with an earnest proclamation: ‘The trail is best enjoyed without your phone. Please turn it off.’…
Sound of Falling is a confronting and complex exploration of inter-generational experience
Sound of Falling manages the impressive task of imitating the non-linear depiction of interconnected psyches, whilst maintaining enough storytelling muscle to avoid the pitfalls of leaving its audience with little reality to hold on to.…
Yeon Sang-ho's Colony ticket giveaway
In a high-rise building in downtown Seoul, there is a mass outbreak of an unknown infection. Within no time, the building is sealed off, and the people inside are trapped. The infected, after first cr…
Astonishing Grace: James J. Robinson on his stunning debut film First Light
It is a really personal story, because every single character within the film is like a part of myself that is kind of in constant argument with itself.…
The labyrinth of the everyday in Kane Parsons’ disquieting Backrooms
Backrooms is a triumph in its highly individual vision and the technical prowess involved to realise the horrible maze of anxiety.…
Storyteller Miski Omar on bringing Somali-Australian stories to life on screen in the short film Button Pusher
Storyteller Miski Omar is a multidisciplinary artist whose creative work includes writing and filmmaking, allowing her work as a speech pathologist to inform her exploration of the intricacies of comm…
Sound of Falling Giveaway
With thanks to Transmission Films, we have ten double passes to give away to SOUND OF FALLING, a film directed by Mascha Schilinski, opening nationally in cinemas on 4th June. At different points thr…
Sugar (C)rush: Natalie Erika James on agony and ecstasy in Saccharine
I hope Saccharine prompts people to really interrogate that for themselves and how they relate to culture, that diet culture within their own bodies.…
Star Wars returns to the big-screen with The Mandalorian and Grogu, an exercise in galactic-scale entropy
The Mandalorian and Grogu makes the biggest cardinal sin of all: scamming its viewership into believing they are making entertainment when these parts of Star Wars are nothing more than a piece of capital, packaged and designed to make more toys, plushies, and general merchandise.…