[WTF is a weekly opinion article in which Amy Killin shines the spotlight on something peculiar or shocking in the world of film and gives you, the reader, a chance to chime in with your two cents.]
Sad news in the week just passed, as film fans with an interest in the behind the scenes of moviemaking were shocked with the news [...]
Preceding the end credits for Let Me In, the American remake of Tomas Alfredson’s excellent Swedish vampire firm Let the Right One In, is a giant title card that reads “Written for the screen and Directed by Matt Reeves.”
But don’t be fooled; Reeves is no more involved in the creative process of this film [...]
Let me start by saying that one of my biggest cinema cravings is monster movies. Especially GIANT monster movies. Maybe it’s the combination of horror, disaster and spectacle that does it, or it’s just the sheer twisted glee of watching a rampaging twenty-story “Something” stomp a metropolis into oblivion. Sadly, however, too many of them were well before my time and consequently more than a little dated for [...]
The Social Network, David Fincher’s dramatization of the founding of Facebook, doesn’t hit Australian cinemas until October 28th, yet US critics are already calling it a modern masterpeice.
But what about all the other social networks? Where’s a big Hollywood movie about the founding of Myspace or Youtube? Why doesn’t Twitter getting a short, timely film told in 140 frames or less?
Well, if these trailers below are to be believed — which [...]
With Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole hitting Australian screens this week, it seems a fitting time for a retrospective on director Zack Snyder.
The former television commercial director made his feature film debut in 2004 with his remake of the classic zombie flick Dawn of the Dead.
Not only becoming one of a handful in the zombie sub-genre to cross the 100 million mark worldwide, even more impressively [...]
You immediately learn from watching Winter’s Bone that not all of the United States’ deep dark secrets are kept within the confines of the White House. The backdrop of the Ozark Mountains in the country’s centre as shown here displays a very bleak look at country life, where more often than not families struggle to survive by making an honest living. The repercussions of such a situation make [...]

















