features archive

Reading Between The Lines

FilmInk speaks to co-stars, Julianne Moore and Michael Angarano, about the indie comedy, ‘The English Teacher’ which sees a teacher and student step outside their comfort zone.
May 24, 2013 17:01
Family Portrait

FilmInk’s Danny Peary speaks to the co-directors behind the intimate doco ‘The Genius of Marian’, which explores the tragedy of Alzheimer’s disease via a family lens.
May 24, 2013 15:10
Defying the Odds

Australian actor Grant Bowler has stepped into a whole new world, headlining the ambitious sci-fi series, ‘Defiance’, which has been boldly adapted from a video game
May 21, 2013 16:48
Childhood Trauma

FilmInk speaks to the writer/director and two young stars behind the haunting coming of age drama, ‘Hide Your Smiling Faces’, one of the most warmly received films to emerge from this year’s Tribeca Film Festival
May 21, 2013 16:11
Power To The People

At the recent Tribeca Film Festival, FilmInk sat down with the co-directors, Fahad Mustafa and Deepti Kakkar, behind ‘Powerless’, an eye-opening doco that explores the electricity struggle threatening to tear India apart.
May 21, 2013 16:06
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