features archive

  • Winter Weirdness

    Melbourne movie geeks can expect some wild and wonderful evenings this winter, with the launch of a brand new late night line-up at Cinema Nova in Carlton.

    May 20, 2013 11:13
  • Back On The Road

    One of Australia’s most important films, ‘Wrong Side Of The Road’, is set to screen at The Sydney Film Festival in a brand new, fully restored print courtesy of The National Film And Sound Archive.

    May 15, 2013 12:18
  • Itching To Act

    Jon Bernthal moves from battling zombies in your lounge room on 'The Walking Dead' to matching it with The Rock and drug dealers on the big screen with 'Snitch'.

    May 15, 2013 10:31
  • Moral Minefield

    FilmInk’s Danny Peary sits down with Israel’s Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado – touted as leading a new generation of horror filmmakers – to discuss their mesmerising but challenging revenge thriller, ‘Big Bad Wolves’.

    May 14, 2013 12:18
  • Grave Re-Encounters

    The meta sequel to the found footage horror flick, ‘Grave Encounters’, asks the question – what if the first film wasn’t just a movie?

    May 13, 2013 16:09
  • Killer Audition

    After impressing Anthony Hopkins in the audition process, British thesp, James D’Arcy, stepped into some iconic shoes, portraying actor Anthony Perkins, in ‘Hitchcock’.

    May 13, 2013 15:54
  • East West 101

    We speak with German filmmaker Martin Persiel about his touching and innovative docu-drama, This Ain’t California.

    May 9, 2013 17:03
  • Tough Choices in Dark Times

    Having conquered TV, ‘The Walking Dead’ hits video consoles, this time placing players in the midst of an ethical minefield.

    May 8, 2013 15:52
  • Dystopian Sounds

    As part of Sydney’s Vivid LIVE festival, the Heritage Orchestra will bring the retro-futuristic score behind Ridley Scott’s 1982 cult classic, Blade Runner, to life, and we speak to the man at the centre of it all.

    May 6, 2013 17:30
  • Scoring ‘Star Trek’

    Australian singer-songwriter on the rise, Penelope Austin, teamed up with producer Robert Conley to pen an epic original song for J.J. Abrams’ ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’.

    May 6, 2013 15:17
  • The Quiet Observer

    In a world brimming with decadence and broken dreams, Tobey Maguire is the moral heartbeat in Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of ‘The Great Gatsby’.

    May 3, 2013 11:55
  • Finding The Humanity

    Suiting up for an audition he believed was a long shot, Australian actor, Joel Edgerton, scored a major role in Baz Luhrmann’s ‘The Great Gatsby’, tackling the arrogant “man’s man”, Tom Buchanan.

    May 3, 2013 10:08
  • Talkin’ Bout Your Generation

    FilmInk speaks to Thulaisi Sivapalan, the co-creator of ‘In Transit’, a local comedy/drama web series that chronicles four twenty-somethings as they navigate the highs and lows of early adulthood.

    May 1, 2013 14:39
  • Back To Grimm Basics

    Actress Bitsie Tulloch enjoyed sinking her teeth into ‘Grimm’, a strange but compelling mix of police drama and twisted fantasy

    May 1, 2013 13:06
  • Making ‘Pandorian’ Pozible

    FilmInk speaks to producer, Yingna Lu, behind the ambitious twenty-minute supernatural thriller, ‘Pandorian’, which seeks to prove that short films can still be epic in the action stakes.

    April 24, 2013 09:17
  • Viral Thrills

    FilmInk speaks to Adelaide filmmaker, Tom Goodall, about ‘The Follower’, a no-budget, doco-style horror flick inspired by an internet-based urban legend.

    April 23, 2013 15:59
  • Darkening Saga

    FilmInk speaks to Scottish actor, Graham McTavish, about tackling the role of dwarf, Dwalin, in ‘The Hobbit’, and the tragedy-tinged events set to unfold.

    April 23, 2013 09:30
  • Dreaming and Drawing For Disney

    Key designer behind last year’s animated hit ‘Wreck-It-Ralph’, Lorelay Bove, talks inspiration and influences, and sheds insight on how to nab the most elusive of jobs.

    April 22, 2013 13:05
  • A Cinematic Delight

    Daniele Delpeuch defied the odds to become the French President’s private cook, and her extraordinary story has been brought to the screen in ‘Haute Cuisine’.

    April 22, 2013 12:40
  • For The Love Of The Game

    On the 20th anniversary of ‘The Sandlot’, FilmInk gets nostalgic with the film’s writer/director, David Mickey Evans, about the magic of movies, baseball, and why this classic could never be made today…

    April 19, 2013 13:58
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