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FilmInk Magazine @filmink.bsky.social · 21m

Hello 2019, we want the box office back!

It's our weekend box office report

Box Office Report: 16 - 19 October 2025 - FilmInk

Hello 2019, we want the box office back!

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FilmInk Magazine @filmink.bsky.social · 1h

A spotlight on another Forgotten Australian Film - 1941 meta-comedy about the movies, That Certain Something

Forgotten Australian Films: That Certain Something - FilmInk

A 1941 meta-comedy about the movies

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FilmInk Magazine @filmink.bsky.social · 5h

A Youtube movie critic makes a movie! Gasp!

Anthony O'Connor reviews SHELBY OAKS, in cinemas this Thursday

Shelby Oaks - FilmInk

… an undeniably effective spookshow.

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FilmInk Magazine @filmink.bsky.social · 6h

Don't Look Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Deer Hunter...

The Forgotten British Moguls series continues, this time with Michael Deeley and Barry Spikings, execs who ran British Lion and EMI in the 1970s

Forgotten British Moguls: Michael Deeley and Barry Spikings - FilmInk

Execs who ran British Lion and EMI in the 1970s

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FilmInk Magazine @filmink.bsky.social · 8h

Trailer for Steven J. Mihaljevich's SHED, which just picked up BEST ACTRESS (Mani Shanks) and BEST EDITING (Mihaljevich) at SCREAMFEST

Trailer: SHED - FilmInk

Steven J. Mihaljevich (Violett, The Xrossing) writes and directs this Western Australian made chiller starring Mani Shanks, Jason Robert Lester, and Mick Taylor himself (sorry John), John Jarratt. The...

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Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) announced short film nominees for 2026 AACTA Awards

Nominees Announced for the 2026 AACTA Award for Best Short Film - FilmInk

The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) today announced the nominees for the 2026 AACTA Award for Best Short Film, with the announcement taking place at the Port Shorts Film Festi...

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FilmInk Magazine @filmink.bsky.social · 2d

Australian filmmaker Abraham Joffe delivers the feature length documentary Trade Secret, which is gaining momentum after more than 10 years in the making, resonating with the likes of Adam McKay, Anthony Albanese and Adelaide Film Festival

Abraham Joffe’s Big Polar Bear Secret - FilmInk

The Australian filmmaker delivers the feature length documentary Trade Secret, which is gaining momentum after more than 10 years in the making, resonating with the likes of Adam McKay, Anthony Albane...

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Vale to the captive and captivating Samantha Eggar

The captive and captivating Samantha Eggar - FilmInk

The captive and captivating Samantha Eggar - This Week

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FilmInk Magazine @filmink.bsky.social · 2d

At the Venice Film Festival, James Mottram spoke with the makers of 4-part thriller The Monster of Florence, based on the labyrinthine tale of Italy's infamous serial killer (or killers?)

The Mindhunter of Florence - FilmInk

A series of gruesome murders that have fascinated true crime fans for over half a century, the so-called ‘Monster of Florence’ has reached mythological proportions in Italy and beyond.

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FilmInk Magazine @filmink.bsky.social · 3d

In a rebuff to The Butcher, The Fluffer hits the tools to find unloved movies that are worthy of reappraisal.

First up, Jonathan Demme's The Truth About Charlie

The Fluffer fluffs ... The Truth About Charlie - FilmInk

In a rebuff to The Butcher, The Fluffer hits the tools to find unloved movies that are worthy of reappraisal.

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An authority on film music and the role it serves in moviemaking, Prof. Dan Golding discusses AI and the future of film music

AI and the future of film music with composer Dan Golding - FilmInk

Host of ABC Classics programme Screen Sounds, and one half of popular soundtrack podcast Art of the Score, Prof. Dan Golding is an authority on film music and the role it serves in moviemaking.

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FilmInk Magazine @filmink.bsky.social · 3d

Today's Forgotten Australian Film: Ken G. Hall’s 1938 comedy classic, Dad and Dave Come to Town

Forgotten Australian Films: Dad and Dave Come to Town - FilmInk

Ken G. Hall’s 1938 comedy classic

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FilmInk Magazine @filmink.bsky.social · 3d

1 Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere review is never enough.

Here's Cain Noble-Davies' take on the film, in cinemas next Thursday 23 October.

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere - FilmInk

... may trip into the odd musical biopic trope to its own detriment, but as both a viscerally personal snapshot in the life of Bruce Springsteen, and a document of a defining moment in music history ....

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FilmInk Magazine @filmink.bsky.social · 4d

Move over CoD, BATTLEFIELD 6 is a multiplayer that works at launch!

Anthony O'Connor is impressed.

Battlefield 6 - FilmInk

…. multiplayer experience that you can lose hours of your life with mates; a game that is slick, engaging and full of those random, chaotic moments that you see clipped all over social media …

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This week's salute to the work of creatives who have never truly received the credit that they deserve: actor, musician, and prolific outsider experimental writer and director Giuseppe Andrews, who has helmed over seventy films, including Touch Me in the Morning, In Our Garden and Trailer Town

Unsung Auteurs: Giuseppe Andrews - FilmInk

Unsung Auteurs: Giuseppe Andrews - Features

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FilmInk Magazine @filmink.bsky.social · 4d

Our October movie of the month AFTER THE HUNT is in cinemas today!

Movie of the Month: After the Hunt - FilmInk

n October, every member of FilmInk’s movie club, ClubInk, will receive an inseason double pass to After the Hunt.

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FilmInk Magazine @filmink.bsky.social · 4d

Today's Vintage Telemovie of the Week: 1974 crime drama The Death Squad, starring Robert Forster, Claude Akins, Michelle Phillips and Melvyn Douglas

Vintage Telemovie Of The Week: The Death Squad (1974) - FilmInk

In this regular column, we drag forgotten made-for-TV movies out of the vault and into the light. This week: the 1974 crime drama The Death Squad, starring Robert Forster, Claude Akins, Michelle Phill...

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FilmInk Magazine @filmink.bsky.social · 4d

A chance to win a double pass to see Bat Out of Hell: The Musical!

In cinemas 30 October

Win A Double Pass To Bat Out Of Hell: The Musical - FilmInk

The sirens are screaming and the fires are howling, way down in the valley tonight.…

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FilmInk Magazine @filmink.bsky.social · 4d

Royale with Cheese!

This week, The Butches applies his sharpened cleaver to Quentin Tarantino’s fast-talking, fast-shooting cult classic Pulp Fiction

The Butcher…Carves Up…Pulp Fiction!!! - FilmInk

The Butcher…Carves Up…Pulp Fiction!!! - Features

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FilmInk Magazine @filmink.bsky.social · 4d

It was 30 years ago that Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise was released

We return to 2013, when we interviewed director Richard Linklater – + his two stars, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy – at the Berlin Film Festival, where they were promoting Before Midnight, the final film in the “Before” Trilogy

Rewind: A Look Back At The "Before" Trilogy - FilmInk

It was thirty years ago that Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise was released, so we return to our 2013 interview with the director – and his two stars, Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy – at The Berlin Film...

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FilmInk Magazine @filmink.bsky.social · 5d

The OMNI AI Film Festival, a dedicated platform for AI-driven cinema, is planning OMNI 1.0, the festival’s second award ceremony this year which will screen its winners in November 2025

AUSTRALIAN-FOUNDED OMNI AI FILM FESTIVAL LEADING THE CHARGE IN AI CINEMA - FilmInk

Creators from more than 70 countries have submitted their AI-generated films to the OMNI AI Film Festival, an Australian-founded AI film screening initiative-now preparing their second showing in 2025...

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FilmInk Magazine @filmink.bsky.social · 5d

With Rocky Horror Picture Show hitting cinemas tomorrow for its 50th anniversary, here's our podcast chat with the film's director Jim Sharman about the films that changed his life!

The Films That Changed My Life: Jim Sharman - FilmInk

We speak with the director of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the legendary Jim Sharman.

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FilmInk Magazine @filmink.bsky.social · 5d

The Asia Pacific Screen Awards nominations announced, with Samsara, It Was Just an Accident and Magellan in contention.

18th ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN AWARDS NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED - FilmInk

Asia Pacific Cinema’s Finest: 33 Films from 24 Countries and Regions in the Prestigious APSA Lineup

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Black Phone 2 reviewed by Anthony O'Connor.

Black Phone 2 is in cinemas tomorrow

Black Phone 2 - FilmInk

… it probably won’t linger in your memory or haunt your dreams.

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Anna Friel, Ioane Sa’ula, Lola Bond and Dan Wyllie star in medical drama The F Ward (a cross between Slow Horses and The Pitt?) - from the makers of Bump - currently filming in Sydney

NEW AUSTRALIAN MEDICAL DRAMA ABOUT INTERN UNDERDOGS, THE STAN ORIGINAL THE F WARD IS NOW IN PRODUCTION - FilmInk

Starring Emmy® Award winner Anna Friel, Ioane Sa'ula, Lola Bond and Dan Wyllie, The F Ward is currently filming in Sydney.

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