Ten years ago a nano budget indie film emerged like a bolt from the blue to become an international box office behemoth, gobbling up almost US$250,000,000. That film was The Blair Witch Project, the kind of one in a million success story Hollywood has never been able to replicate. Never, that is, until now, writes Luke Buckmaster.
Articles by Luke Buckmaster 
Crikey cage match: Is Australian film still down in the dumps?
In last week’s Sunday Age, Michael Coulter said he’d rather watch the next Transformers film than watch anything made by down-in-the-dumps local filmmakers. Crikey’s movie blogger Luke Buckmaster begs to differ.
RIP Charles “Bud” Tingwell
Bud Tingwell’s unassuming personality and placid, carefully measured style made him an endearing performer and, in his later years, a cuddly grandpa figure of the Australian film industry.
Questions hang over the VCA’s future
Job and budget cuts have prompted ongoing concerns for the future of programs and courses in the Victorian College of the Arts and Music.
Interview with Russian filmmaker Sergei Dvortsevoy
In Australia for a few days to promote his acclaimed drama Tulpan, film-maker Sergei Dvortsevoy sat down for a chat with Cinetology.
Green Lantern to be shot in Sydney’s Fox Studios
The next big budget Hollywood movie to be filmed in Sydney’s Fox Studios will be the long anticipated superhero flick Green Lantern.
