FILMINK Magazine

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FILMINK
Editor	Erin Free
Categories	Film
Frequency	Monthly
First Issue	July 1997
Company	FKP
Country	Australia
Language	English
Website	Official site
ISSN	unknown

FILMINK is an Australian film magazine published monthly by FKP International Exports since July 1997. It calls itself as "Australia’s Best Movie Magazine." It hosts the annual FILMINK Awards [1] in conjunction with Movie Extra at the historic State Theatre in downtown Sydney. The magazine is a competitor to the Australian version of Empire Magazine, a British publication, and Inside Film Magazine, which also hosts an annual awards presentation.

[edit] Regular features

FILMINK features content from Australia and abroad. It reviews mainstream films, local pictures and arthouse and independent fare.

Common elements include the extended "front of the book" section called "Keeping It Reel" with small features like "New Faces," "Dumb Ideas," "Hollywood Arseholes," "Talking Movies," "Director’s Cut," "Cameo," "Icon," "FILMINK Loves," "Backstory," "Role Model," "Premiere" and "quoteUNQUOTE."

Recent cover stories include Gael Garcia Bernal, David Wenham, Edward Norton, Hugh Jackman, Borat, Emily Barclay, Toni Collette, Jack Black, Johnny Depp, Brandon Routh, Heath Ledger, Abbie Cornish and Geoffrey Rush, Audrey Tautou, Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving, Viggo Mortensen, Joaquin Phoenix, Mickey Rourke, Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst, Hilary Swank, Cate Blanchett, Sin City, Jessica Alba, Naomi Watts and many others.