In our penultimate issue of 2014, it’s time to travel to Middle Earth one last time for the conclusion of Peter Jackson’s epic Tolkien vision in THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES. 

We also run the gauntlet with Katniss Everdeen in THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PART 1 and take flight with Michael Keaton and the all star cast of BIRDMAN. Not only that, we travel into CHARLIE'S FARM, get creepy with Jake Gyllenhaal in NIGHTCRAWLER, go back to school with MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN and head to Sunnyvale for FAT PIZZA VS. HOUSOS. 

We also get the lowdown on the Brisbane Asia Pacific Film Festival, chat with director Atom Egoyan, get groovy with Bruce Campbell  and interrogate the cast of the THE MULE. All this, plus digital exclusives such as our look at the shaky distribution landscape for Australian films; an exploration of Cannon Films through Mark Hartley and his amazing documentary, Electric Boogaloo; a chat with the director of a documentary about the poster artist Drew Struzan, and much much more!

2015: THE YEAR IN FILM
FilmInk runs its critical eye over the best, the worst, and the most unforgettable movies of 2015.

THE HATEFUL EIGHT
Writer/director Quentin Tarantino reunites with his Death Proof star Kurt Russell for The Hateful Eight, an intimately epic western about a group of very, very bad people stuck together in a remote waystation in the middle of a blizzard.

STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
The most eagerly awaited film of the year is finally here, eventually bringing with it a host of sequels and spin-offs, all existing in a shared Star Wars narrative universe. And with Disney – the owners of both Star Wars and Marvel – leading the charge in interconnected cinema, a long list of similar “shared cinematic universes” are currently being engineered at Hollywood’s major studios.

STEVE JOBS
Michael Fassbender turns in his most surprising and against-type performance yet in Steve Jobs, playing the eponymous tech pioneer, whose ruthlessness and ambition were as famous as his iPods and Apple stores.

TODD HAYNES
With a host of extraordinary films (Poison, Safe, Velvet Goldmine, I’m Not There, Far From Heaven) to his credit, this American indie hero now tackles an unconventional fifties-set romance with Carol, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara.

PLUS
Christian Bale, Bryan Cranston, Ben Stiller, Paul Dano, Radha Mitchell and Spotlight, The Danish Girl, Triple 9 and much more.

We celebrate a host of talented women both on screen and behind the camera, covering some of the biggest female-driven films to hit screens this year, and explore the industry’s devastating gender divide. Whether you’re a filmmaker or a film lover, it’s an unmissable issue. Here’s a sneak peek of the content you can expect:
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 2
As female action heroes make their presence felt in Hollywood, bona fide superstar and Oscar winner, Jennifer Lawrence, brings one of the great modern franchises to a much heralded close.
FEMALE DIRECTORS ON THE RISE
The likes of Ana Lily Amirpour, Gillian Robespierre, Talya Lavie, Sophie Hyde, Maggie Carey, and Nikole Beckwith might not be household names just yet, but these under-forty filmmakers are well and truly on the way up.
CATHERINE HARDWICKE
After setting the template for the whole franchise with the first Twilight movie, this famously gritty filmmaker (Thirteen, Lords Of Dogtown) tells a warm tale of female friendship with Miss You Already, starring Drew Barrymore and Toni Collette.
WOMEN LEADERS
A host of Australian women in power talk about their careers, the challenges that they’ve faced, and the state of women in the film industry today.
FILM SCHOOLS: BRIDGING THE GAP
FilmInk’s annual education feature takes a look at the widening debate about gender disparity in the film industry, and what Australia’s film schools can do to redress the imbalance.
Plus more on Emily Blunt, Marion Cotillard, Hugh Jackman, Parker Posey, Everest, Straight Outta Compton, Holding The Man, Kill Me Three Times, The Dressmaker and much, much more.

ANT-MAN: Mined in controversy and dotted with production potholes, one of Marvel’s most important but less well known characters gets his big screen due courtesy of director Peyton Reed and stars, Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas.
FANTASTIC 4: Courting fan outrage with his casting decisions and sparking rumours with his on-set behaviour, Josh Trank’s superhero reboot was nevertheless a labour of love for actors Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Bell.
THE AGE OF HEROES: Right now, cinematic superheroes rule the roost, but why are they so popular, and will this pop cultural domination last?
SUPERHEROES WITHOUT SUPER POWERS: Not all superheroes fly, walk through walls, have super human strength or wield magical hammers… and FilmInk takes a look at a fistful of not-so super superheroes.
KEVIN FEIGE: One of only a few legitimate “producer auteurs” in the history of cinema, we track the career of The Marvel Cinematic Universe’s main man, who has been largely responsible for the studio’s big screen success.
Superheroes aside, this epic issue also features in-depth stories on Ruben Guthrie, Mr. Holmes, Trainwreck, Ted 2, Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, Terminator: Genysis, Magic Mike XXL, Insidious, Straight Outta Compton and much more.

Mad Max: Fury Road: Australian director George Miller revives one of cinema’s greatest cult heroes with Mad Max: Fury Road and puts man-in-demand, Tom Hardy, behind the wheel for the title role.
    Jurassic World: Fourteen years after the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park III proved to have a disappointing lack of bite, indie director Colin Trevorrow is looking to excavate one of the biggest franchises in history.
    Infini: He went against the grain with 2007’s action fantasy Gabriel and now Australian director Shane Abbess kicks against convention once again with this sci-fi thriller.
    The Top Ten Australian Sci-Fi Films: We don’t make many science fiction films in Australia, but this list of fascinating titles proves that we punch way above our weight when it comes to fantastical cinema.
    Director Feature: Lynn Shelton: After her eye catching 2009 effort Humpday, indie director Lynn Shelton upped the ante for her Emily Blunt-starring follow up Your Sister’s Sister, and now delivers her most accessible film yet with Laggies starring Keira Knightley and Sam Rockwell.
    PLUS Entourage, Pitch Perfect, Clouds Of Sila Maria, Partisan, Wyrmwood, Kurt Cobain: Montage Of Heck and much more.

TURN IT ON: THE FILMINK TV SPECIAL In this special look at television in 2015, FilmInk goes behind the scenes of Marvel’s Daredevil; and the local shows, The Principal and Maximum Choppage; chats to The Missing star, James Nesbitt; looks at TV series inspired by movies; and runs the rule over the best of what the small screen has to offer this year.
 FAST & FURIOUS 7 Aussie director, James Wan (Saw), revs up the latest installment of one of modern cinema’s great underdog franchises with Fast & Furious 7, starring the late Paul Walker.
FILM PUSHES BACK According to the cinematic law of the day, film is dead, with digital lensing now the prominent form when it comes to making movies. Well, guess what? Not everybody agrees…
FOX HITS THE CENTURY As 20th Century Fox celebrates its 100th anniversary, FilmInk picks the best 100 films in the power studio’s history.
DANNY ELFMAN Tim Burton’s regular composer looks back on a career that began with the experimental rock band, Oingo Boingo, and now includes scoring Hollywood’s biggest movies.
PLUS Juliette Binoche, John Lithgow, Margot Robbie and much more!

Unbroken - Foxcatcher - Birdman - Paper Planes - Big Hero 6 - Mr. Turner - Keira Knightley - Julianne Moore - Channing Tatum - Benedict Cumberbatch - The Water Diviner - The Theory of Everything - 2014 in Film

This month, we go INTERSTELLAR with Christopher Nolan space epic, report in from the Toronto International Film Festival (digital exclusive!) and provide a local film industry focus on our nation’s capital, Canberra. 

We also look at the next instalment in the MAD MAX saga, get into the groove with WHIPLASH, go on the run with JOHN WICK and speak with two iconic French film personalities, director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Fanny Ardant (digital exclusive). 

Plus, as a rather special offer to our digital readers, we’re offering the chance to win a Steven Spielberg Blu-ray boxset featuring 8 classic films (some never released on Blu-ray!) which also includes plenty of featurettes, interviews and bonus material!

Of course there’s our signature film reviews, interviews, digital edition exclusives and much more inside – what are you waiting for?

FURY: Writer/Director, David Ayer, chronicles the brutality and misfortunes of war in his scorching WW2 drama, Fury, starring Brad Pitt, Logan Lerman, and Jon Bernthal as the crew of a US army Sherman tank rolling right into the heart of Nazi Germany. We spoke to all of these players as the only Australian outlet invited to a special day in Bovington UK's Tank Museum. But where was Shia!?
SON OF A GUN: Three major talents on the rise - writer/director Julius Avery, exec producer/second unit director, Michael Spiccia, and young actor, Brenton Thwaites - stage a big time cinematic heist with the ripping crime thriller, Son of a Gun.
THE YOUNG BAZ LUHRMANN DIRECT CROCODILE CREEK: Before The Great Gatsby, before Australia, before Strictly Ballroom, the young Baz Luhrmann took the help of the 1986 community theatre production, Crocodile Creek, in the Queensland town of Rockhampton, and quickly proved himself to be a master director in the making.
COLLISION COURSE - WHEN HOLLYWOOD MAKES THE SAME MOVIE TWICE: Hollywood's writers, directors, and studio execs have an unfortunate habit of having the same great - and sometimes not so great - idea twice, as our twelve examples amply and repetitively prove.
DIRECTOR FEATURE: LUKAS MOODYSSON: After a detour into experimentalism with A Hole In My Heart, Swedish director Lukas Moodysson (Lilya-4-Ever, returns to the warm, youth-focused feel of his debut, Show Me Love, with the fizzy teen punk rock tale, We Are The Best!
PLUS Dracula Untold, The Maze Runner, The Little Death, John Doe: Vigilante, The Boxtrolls, Fat Pizza Vs. Housos, Foxcatcher, A Walk Among The Tombstones, John Wick, Let's Be Cops, a special feature on Tasmanian screen culture and production, and much more.

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