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Madman Entertainment has today released a most triumphant official trailer for BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC, along with the film’s final poster. Set nearly three decades after Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, the new movie, which will be released on August 27, follows Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) as they’re faced with creating a song in 78 minutes to set their world right ...

Audiences in the South West will be among the first in Australia to see the highly anticipated film Dirt Music, which will screen at CinefestOZ next month. The West Australian drama, based on the critically acclaimed novel by iconic Australian writer Tim Winton, will screen at the closing night of the festival at Orana Cinemas in Busselton on Saturday, 29 August. Tickets for this special event go ...

The WA Made Film Festival has partnered with Buy West Eat Best to offer WA filmmakers and residents an opportunity to scratch their creative itch by making a short film using their smartphones. The new initiative, called Get Smart! Presented by Buy West Eat Best, invites local filmmakers to submit a mini-masterpiece to be considered for a special event screening during the 2021 WA Made Film Festiv...

The highly anticipated West Australian film RAMS will open CinefestOZ in the South West next month. RAMS, directed by Jeremy Sims and starring Sam Neill, Miranda Richardson and CinefestOZ favourite Michael Caton, will screen at a special opening night event at Orana Cinemas in Busselton on 26 August. The event will include an introduction from the film’s producer Aidan O’Bryan, who will share a fe...

Today Disney+ ordered its next animated series from Lucasfilm, “Star Wars: The Bad Batch.” Fresh off of the critically-acclaimed series finale of “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” the Disney+ original series will premiere on the streaming service in 2021.   The series follows the elite and experimental clones of the Bad Batch (first introduced in “The Clone Wars”) as they find their way in a rapidly ch...

CinefestOZ has named AACTA award-winning actress Emma Booth as a Patron of the festival.­­ The West Australian-born actress, best known for the award-winning Australian thriller Hounds of Love and TV series Glitch and The Gloaming, has been attending the festival for years and said she was delighted to become an ‘official member’ of the CinefestOZ family. “Over the years, the team behind CinefestO...

We lost Ennio Morricone yesterday. The world’s greatest screen composer was 91 years old, which is a good innings by anyone’s estimation, but it still stings when you lose someone who cast a shadow as long as his, and perhaps twice as much in a year as unarguably shitty as this one. Morricone’s achievements are both legion and well documented, and you don’t need me to lead you by the hand through ...

Damien Leone’s sequel to the 2016 breakout indie horror film, Terrifier, is on the way and here’s what we know so far.

In fantastic news coming out of the South West the team behind CinefestOZ have announced the festival will happen at the end of August this year! Even though we may still have some border restrictions this is the perfect time for WA film lovers to head down south at the end of August to experience this festival for the first time if you haven’t been already.. See the full press release below...