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FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL 2025 – interview with artistic director HUDSON SOWADA

FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL 2025 – interview with artistic director HUDSON SOWADA by GREG KING The Fantastic Film Festival Australia is a film festival celebrating genre and alternative cinema from around the globe, promising a kaleidoscopic showcase of the world’s most exciting voices in cult, genre, arthouse, and alternative cinema. The festival screens from April 24 through until May 16 at the Lido Cinemas …

HEAD SOUTH – interview with JONATHAN OGILVIE

HEAD SOUTH – interview with JONATHAN OGILVIE by GREG KING Head South is a coming-of-age story set in Christchurch in 1979. It stars Ed Oxenbould (from Paper Planes, etc) as Angus, a 17-year-old boy whose world is changed when he is introduced to the punk music scene. Head South is based on writer/director Jonathan Ogilvie’s own experiences. Greg chats with Jonathan about the genesis of the film, casting …

HERETIC

HERETIC Reviewed by GREG KING Directors: Scott Beck and Bryan Woods Stars: Hugh Grant, Sophie Tucker, Chloe East, Topher Grace. Hugh Grant was once the affable if slightly awkward star of romantic comedies like Four Weddings And A Funeral and Nottinghill, etc. But since Guy Ritchie cast him against type in a couple of his gritty thrillers Grant has carved out a niche for himself in playing villainous …

STRANGE CREATURES – interview with Henry Boffin

by GREG KING Strange Creatures is a road movie in which two estranged brothers – Nathan and Jed – embark on a journey to spread their late mother’s ashes on the country property where they grew up. Along the way they come to explore their differences and find some common ground. The film is the debut feature for writer/director Henry Boffin (the tv series Metrosexual, etc). It is screening at the Melbourne …

HIGH & LOW: JOHN GALLIANO

HIGH & LOW: JOHN GALLIANO Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Kevin MacDonald. From Oscar winning filmmaker Kevin MacDonald (Touching The Void, etc) comes High & Low, a revealing documentary about the rise and fall of legendary iconoclastic fashion designer John Galliano, who has been acclaimed as one of the greatest designers of the twentieth century. Galliano rose to prominence in …

HOW TO HAVE SEX

HOW TO HAVE SEX reviewed by GREG KING Director: Molly Manning-Walker Stars: Mia McKenna-Bruce, Lara Peake, Enva Lewis, Shaun Thomas, Samuel Bottomley, Laura Ambler. What a salacious eye-catching title! But rather than a documentary this is another in the cycle of coming-of-age films featuring a group of horny teenagers on a sex and alcohol fuelled holiday in a sun-drenched exotic location. It …

FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL 2025 – interview with artistic director HUDSON SOWADA

HEAD SOUTH – interview with JONATHAN OGILVIE

HERETIC

STRANGE CREATURES – interview with Henry Boffin

HIGH & LOW: JOHN GALLIANO

HOW TO HAVE SEX

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