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Inaugural AACTA Award Winners Announced
'Red Dog', 'Snowtown' and 'The Slap' proved the big winners of the night.
Aussie Films at the Box Office in 2011
See how our host of local flicks fared at the box office last year...
On Tour
Founder and director of the In The Bin Film Festival, Jed Cahill, gives us the lowdown on the travelling festival, and hitting the road in 2012.
Franchise Flicks Dominate Australian Box Office Again
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Chronicle
Let down by its illogical “found footage” approach, this remains an impressively compelling ride, which has more in line with classic storytelling than current fads.
Man On A Ledge
While Worthington doesn’t quite match the talent of his top-notch co-stars, this admittedly implausible but impressively dynamic thriller is exciting stuff.
The Artist
Beautifully made, surprisingly fresh, and there’s no denying its charm, but ultimately, it’s a slight case of style over substance.
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Driven by Elizabeth Olsen’s mesmerising lead performance, this languid and unsettling story buries deep into your mind
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The Bit In Between
Actor Ryan Johnson gives us the lowdown on his web series ‘One Step Closer To Home’ which hilariously follows two newlyweds wondering, ‘What comes next?’
Uploaded February 03, 2012 12:27
Tim Burstall’s Bohemian Beginnings
The diaries of a key figure in Australia’s First Wave of filmmakers in the seventies have just been released.
Uploaded February 02, 2012 10:37
Sex, Lies & Video Tape
Producer turned writer/director John Winter’s 'Black & White & Sex' is an edgy, confronting and captivating exploration of sex and seduction...
Uploaded January 31, 2012 13:01
Man of Action
In his latest edge-of-the-seat thriller ‘Man on a Ledge’, Sam Worthington plays a man who goes for broke, a feeling that the actor is not completely unfamiliar with himself...
Uploaded January 27, 2012 15:50
Private Files
In Clint Eastwood’s biopic, 'J. Edgar', Leonardo DiCaprio gets the role of a lifetime as the polarising and enigmatic first director of the FBI.
Uploaded January 23, 2012 14:39
Market Ready
FilmInk chatted with Open Channel about their upcoming Script Development Program and what makes the course so unique
Uploaded January 20, 2012 11:13
Chills and Thrills
While things may have veered off course in Harry Cook’s latest film, the water-tight thriller ‘Caught Inside’, the young actor’s career looks like it’s heading in a promising direction...
Uploaded January 19, 2012 12:45
In Conversation: Teresa Palmer
Shifting between big-budget Hollywood productions and buzzed about local films, young actress Teresa Palmer is building one pretty impressive resume.
Uploaded January 17, 2012 17:14
Top-notch Advice at Tropfest
FilmInk recently chatted to New York based screenwriter Charles Randolph (‘Love and Other Drugs’), the keynote speaker at one of Tropfest’s new side events...
Uploaded January 17, 2012 16:18
Spy Versus Spy
Director Tomas Alfredson recruits Brits Gary Oldman and Colin Firth for his adaptation of John Le Carré’s classic espionage novel, 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy'.
Uploaded January 17, 2012 10:21
The A to Z of Jucy
‘Jucy’s’ screenwriter and occasional FilmInk contributor, Stephen Vagg, gives us an A to Z lowdown on the Aussie ‘womance’, out on DVD this week.
Uploaded January 16, 2012 14:21
United In Darkness
In David Fincher’s bleak but compelling thriller, ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’, actors Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara play emotionally battered characters whose only hope is each other.
Uploaded January 10, 2012 11:29
Esoteric Interests
Working within a low budget is hard. Working within the constraints of a genre is hard. Sam Barrett, director and co-writer of Australian neo-noir ‘Esoterica’, did both...
Uploaded January 09, 2012 11:10
Seeing Red
Cult comic book icon Warren Ellis is documented in the documentary Warren Ellis: Captured Ghosts by filmmaker Patrick Meaney.
Uploaded January 03, 2012 14:12
A Very Fine Acting School
FilmInk quizzed renowned US acting coach Howard Fine about his training techniques and methods, which will no doubt be on show at the studio he has just opened down under...
Uploaded December 19, 2011 10:51
A Call To Arms
With his sobering documentary ‘Decadence: Decline of the Western World’ Pria Viswalingam argues that the West is in dire need of a new economic system...
Uploaded December 12, 2011 17:28
Gags, Comic Situations And Other Principles Of Television Comedy
Andrew Moraitis interviews comic and writer Tim Ferguson, who talks about how the principles of comedy including misdirection, irony and comic situations can relate to Australian comedy.
Uploaded December 06, 2011 11:37
Capturing The Moment
With ‘Position Among the Stars’, documentarian Leonard Retel Helmrich has filmed the final chapter in his epic and poetic trilogy of films following an Indonesian family over 12 years.
Uploaded December 06, 2011 11:20
Love Story For The Ages
Another cinematic adaptation of Jane Eyre?! With the release of the film on DVD and Blu-ray this week, director Cary Fukunaga discusses why it’s still as relevant as ever…
Uploaded December 05, 2011 16:47
You Say You Want A Revolution…
Australian filmmaker Megan Doneman tracks the life story of India’s most controversial revolutionary in her eye-opening documentary ‘Yes Madam, Sir’.
Uploaded December 05, 2011 12:20