It’s freezing, there’s some fucking ’80s Luc Besson free-diving movie screening, we’re eating cold meat, and everyone spent too much time on their hair. But it all turned around at Rooftop Cinema’s opening night.

Extreme tolerance for official speechmaking was called for at the inauguration of ACMI's new permanent screen culture exhibition. But on the upside, there was Oscar® Winning Actress Cate Blanchett.

Viewing the very excellent Humpday at MIFF, we inadvertently stumbled upon the genre of 'mumblecore'. But is it any different to low-budget indie filmmaking of generations past?

Bored with the predictable tripe at the cineplex? Try blowing your mind at the Melbourne International Animation Festival. We did.

A little short film festival in St Kilda has become the hottest local film industry ticket in town over the last couple of decades.

Despite being ignored by film funding bodies, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival demonstrated at their 2009 launch that the best revenge is living well. Very well indeed.

"Live a little, relax a little, films by the bay."

Pat Hingle not only played Commissioner Gordon in the first four Batman movies, he also played virtually everyone else.

Other rappers act, but none have fallen so far from grace on the big screen as Ice Cube. We risk a verbal beatdown to ask him why his films suck.