2013 Gold Coast Film Festival Boasts Strong Line-up Including The World Premiere of THE GARDEN OF WORDS
It looks certain that anime and film lovers will have a great time at the upcoming Gold Coast Film Festival (GCFF), which will be running from April 18 - 28. This year, the Festival will host the World Premiere of... More »
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NYC Happenings: The Middle Ages Come To Anthology Film Archives!

Any New York reader will know that it's always a treat to visit the Anthology Film Archives in the East Village. Starting this Thursday, April 11th and running through June 9th, AFA has a good dozen plus films playing that'll... More »
  

Jimmy McGovern Creating BBC2 Series on First Australian Convicts
Almost as soon as it was established as a British outpost, Australia became a giant prison for all manner of serious and petty criminals. This has provided lots of fodder for Australian storytellers over the years, most recently seen in... More »
  

Bollywood Superstar Amitabh Bachchan to Attend Indian Film Festival of Melbourne
Only in its second year, the Indian Film Festival of Melbourne is leaping from strength to strength. This year the festival will welcome special guest Amitabh Bachchan, to present the closing night screening of his 1975 blockbuster film Deewar, directed... More »
  

Get Initiated Into 1970s Sharpie Culture With Michael Kratochvil and Ladyhawke
In 1960s and 1970s Australia, one of the prominemt subcultures of suburban Melbourne were the Sharpies. Also known as Sharps, these were members of violent suburban youth gangs, so named due to their focus on looking and dressing "sharp".Now in... More »
  

Watch Glendyn Ivin's Incredible Promo for the New Zealand Fire Service
In just one minute Glendyn Ivin will make you cry. His promo for the New Zealand Fire Service (below) is so damn effective that I got dust in my eyes twice watching it in quick succession.For those unfamiliar, Ivin is... More »
  

Exclusive Video: Sally El Hosaini Talks About Her Film MY BROTHER THE DEVIL
Sally El Hosaini's Sundance 2012 feature My Brother the Devil has been playing in New York and will expand to Los Angeles this weekend via Paladin. The powerful film tells the story of two brothers of Egyptian decent, navigating... More »
  

THE ELEGANT GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO KNIFE FIGHTING Wants You To Keep Your Porn Safe
Because nobody enjoys a sore lumbar.... More »
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St Kilda Film Festival Partners With SXSW
Australia's greatest short film festival, the St Kilda Film Festival, is gearing up for 2013 and in preparation has announced that this year it will partner with the SXSW Film Festival to deliver several sidebar programs of incredible awesomeness and... More »
  

THE ACT OF KILLING, OUTRAGE BEYOND, REAR WINDOW Among 2013 Sydney Film Festival First Titles
The three films in the above headline plus Richard Raaphorst's Frankenstein's Army have just made the Sydney Film Festival in June a necessary trip north for me, with the festival unveiling these plus a slew of other anticipated titles in... More »
  

Australia's Hoyts Distribution Becomes StudioCanal
In what is largely a formal change after the French production and distribution company acquired Hoyts Distribution in July last year, the Australian and New Zealand distributor will now be known officially as StudioCanal. Hopefully this also means a step... More »
  

Hey, NYC! Wanna See TRANCE For Free?
Well of course you do. After all, it's a new movie from one mister Danny Boyle. So here's what's up: Twitch has Ten pairs of Run-Of-Engagment passes to give away to folks who live in the NYC area. All you... More »
  

Marvel's AVENGERS 2 to Shoot in UK
Screen Daily is exclusively reporting that Marvel's sequel to The Avengers will begin shooting in early 2014 at Pinewood-Shepperton studios in the UK. This will continue an on-going relationship between the superhero creators and the Twickenham-based studios, where Thor: The... More »
  

ERRORS OF THE HUMAN BODY Teases Weird Science With Another Haunting Poster. Updated With Super-Epic Size Art!
I'm absolutely loving the poster campaign for German-Australian sci-fi thriller Errors of the Human Body. The North American and Australian key art so far has been stylish, classy, minimalistic but always evocative and haunting. This latest poster continues the classy, haunting... More »
  

The Nose Knows In Exclusive Clip From STITCHES
There's a bad clown on the loose in Conor McMahon's Stitches and when a bad clown needs to seek out a naughty child, well, he uses what he has to hand, doesn't he?Ten years after a prank on his birthday... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

Kickstart This: Help Find Weng Weng, the Filipino Midget B-Movie Cult Hero
Australian filmmaker Andrew Leavold is on a quest. For the past 6 years and armed with a camera he's been on this quest, searching for Filipino cult movie superstar Weng Weng, and shooting a documentary along the way. Now, armed... More »
  

SHOPPING Trailer Brings Out The BOY
Keep repeating: this is not Boy, this is not Boy. The trailer for New Zealand Sundance-selected film Shopping has dropped online, and it's obvious where distributor Madman got the inspiration for it, with clear head nods to Kiwi smash hit... More »
  

New Trailer For TRANCE Confirms That, Hell Yes, It Is No Doubt A Danny Boyle Film!
And I'm talking the dark, brooding, then spastic, crazy upside trickster narratives that got Danny Boyle squarely on the indie map a full two decades ago. Because while Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours have their place (for good or bad)... More »
  

Jude Law Bows Out Of JANE GOT A GUN
Just a few short hours after Warrior director Gavin O'Connor came to save the day in the wake of Lynne Ramsay's departure comes more ill news from the set of the Natalie Portman starring and produced western Jane Got A... More »
  

Alex Garland Mines Artificial Intelligence For His Sci-Fi Directorial Debut EX-MACHINA

Alex Garland, screenwriter of 28 Days Later, Dredd and Never Let Me Go will be stepping into the directors chair for the first time for a sci-fi film based on his own script called Ex-Machina. The intriguing plot "centers on... More »
  
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