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It’s the closing weekend for MIFF2017 – the Melbourne International Film Festival! Last chance to catch some of the best films of the year. Some of our highlights for the weekend: Wonderstruck (trailer above) Review via Variety: “Wonderstruck” is a supple and flowing experience by comparison. Haynes, working from a script by Selznick, guides and […]

Adidas’ latest segment in its “Original is Never Finished” series is a dystopian sci-fi ad that includes stars like Kendall Jenner. Via DesignTaxi: Kendall Jenner joins the adidas Originals ‘ORIGINAL is never finished’ campaign, which has previously starred names like Snoop Dogg, Desiigner, and Young Thug. This third video for the series moves to the […]

Epic Fail is a highly creative, avant-garde essay of a short film that questions how we perceive truth, information and politics. Via Short of the Week: Imagining a world where nothing short of “World Peace” is up for an online vote, Barth envisions this watershed moment as it is digitally experienced by a young man […]

Coca-Cola: A Bottle Love Story is Coca-Cola’s latest ad, a stop motion oddball animation made out of recycled plastic bottles. Via Adweek: The tale borders on nonsensical. The bubbly dialogue, packed with puns about intrinsically mundane inanimate objects “bottling it” (British for chickening out) and getting “trolleyed” (drunk) together, is painfully cutesy, and strains under […]

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power is now showing in Melbourne with limited screenings across Cinema Nova and other places. Check it out! Via the NYTimes: In a summer movie landscape with Spider-Man, a simian army waging further battle for the planet and Charlize Theron as a sexy Cold War-era superspy, it says something that […]

ICYMI: There’s a Hokusai exhibition in Melbourne, featuring prints from his most famous series, including the Great Wave off Kanagawa piece. Unless you’ve been living under a rock all this while, you’ve probably seen a reproduction before somewhere. Now’s your chance to see two of the prints in person! Via the NGV: Katsushika Hokusai is […]

Check out this delicious “baked” animation for the Great British Bake-off by 4Creative. Beautifully made, and it’s making us hungry! Via Design Taxi: Who doesn’t love a good bake? In this fresh-out-of-the-oven trailer for the upcoming season of The Great British Bake Off, agency 4Creative dedicates the one-minute spot to the show’s delicious subject in […]

KFC’s Real Colonel Sanders returns in ads that combine old footage with new footage made to look old, resulting in a charming campaign. Via Adweek: “We’ve had some amazing celebrity Colonels over the past two years, and each of them has put their own twist on our original Colonel Harland Sanders,” said George Felix, the […]

Beth David and Esteban Bravo’s Ringling College graduation animation “In a Heartbeat” is a viral sensation, a fantastic Pixar-esque short film. Via Short of the Week: While we’ve seen LGBTQ storytelling invade most every other genre imaginable, this is the first time I can recall seeing it in a kid-centric animation, and it is honestly […]

Real-life zombie survival game Zedtown is coming to Adelaide, in case you missed the events in Sydney and Melbourne. Via Gizmodo: Sydney and Melbourne, you’ve had your turn to be eaten alive by zombies. Soon Adelaide will have its chance in the post-apocalyptic sun when Zedtown — the “real-world, zombie-themed” game of tag — arrives […]