Travis Wilkerson’s MACHINE GUN OR TYPEWRITER? is a restless and oft-entrancing piece of agit-noir, merging the avant-garde with a well-worn narrative trope to tell a political tale with mysterious participants.
10 Cloverfield Lane
10 CLOVERFIELD LANE isn’t just a limp counterpart to the 2008 creature feature, it also exists as a messy jumble of ideas, genres and performances that never coalesce into anything of real interest.
Rocky Mountain Express – An Interview with IMAX Filmmaker Stephen Low
With the release of ROCKY MOUNTAIN EXPRESS on IMAX in Sydney we spoke to director Stephen Low about his career in large-format filmmaking and what he sees for the future of the industry.
Spotlight
Tom McCarthy’s SPOTLIGHT is an impressively patient and intelligent film about journalism, corruption and collective ignorance.
The Truth Shall Not Sink with Sewol (dir. Lee Sang-ho and Ahn Hae-ryong, 2014)
A controversial documentary from South Korea and the mark it left on a major international film festival are the focus this week on Less Than (Five) Zero.
The Hateful Eight
THE HATEFUL EIGHT sees Quentin Tarantino at his most tedious and empty-headed, an overlong and overly simplistic tale of misanthropy.
2015 in Review: The Best Digital-Release Documentaries
This year a handful of feature documentaries had their major release online. We take a look at five of the best these.
Poison Berry in My Brain
Yūichi Satō’s adaptation of Setona Mizushiro’s manga series is a cute rom-com about a woman whose romantic encounters are handled by a meeting board in her mind.
Hit 2 Pass
Kurt Walker’s debut feature film is a fascinating documentary that shifts from an account of a derby race to a rumination on colonialism.
Fear Itself
Charlie Lyne’s essay film about the nature of fear in horror cinema morphs into a compelling look at film consumption more broadly.