Dystopian fiction has a very different flavour in 2025. In THE LONG WALK, adapted from Stephen King’s 1979 novel (written as ...

Dystopian fiction has a very different flavour in 2025. In THE LONG WALK, adapted from Stephen King’s 1979 novel (written as Richard Bachman), some nameless war has left the US under a totalitarian ...

Released 25 years ago, X-Men was the serious, streamlined leap that set the stage for a new era of superhero cinema. A new millennium was upon us. Having survived the ravages of Y2K and The Phantom ...

A semi-autobiographical journey through late 1970s New Zealand, capturing the angst and music of a transformative era. Jonathan Ogilvie’s semi-autobiographical second feature marks a sharp departure ...

The Sydney Film Festival is over for another year. Long live the Sydney Film Festival. Like clockwork, the rain started on the opening nights of the festival. Nothing says film festival in Sydney like ...

More than any other year, Asia in Focus has been a massive part of this site in 2021. Until then, here’s a fond look back at the best offerings of the last 12 months. Drive My Car It’s been a bumper ...

The first sequel of 2021 is this article. The 20 Asian films to watch in 2020 article was easily the most-read piece of the last 12 months. Even The Reel Bits gets thirsty for hits occasionally. Of ...

Oz Comic-Con Melbourne will host the first Australian screening of Terror In Resonance, the latest anime by legendary director Shinichiro Watanabe and famed composer ...

A solid, no-frills action thriller that delivers exactly what you’d expect—bone-crunching fights, gruff one-liners, and Statham doing what he does best. Over the last decade or so, actor Jason Statham ...

Welcome back to The Read Goes Ever On: a casual and personal reading (and in some cases a very slow re-reading) of the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. As you work your way through any writings about Tolkien, ...

Each month, hundreds of comics are released to stores for the hungry masses of fans around the world. To stand out on the shelves, you have to put the … ...

Mimi Cave flirts with noir intrigue and heightened melodrama, but despite its stylish setup, it never quite digs beneath the surface of its influences. Mimi Cave’s debut feature, Fresh, lived up to ...