Update: preview screenings of Samson & Delilah are on this weekend in every state except for NSW. Check the film’s official website for details.
Although it is yet to be released, writer/director Warwick Thornton’s Australian drama Samson & Delilah has already been trumpeted as a huge success. Internet buzz surrounding the film has been circulating for [...]
Last week, armed with six Ten Empty DVDs to give away, I launched a competition challenging readers to examine a photograph of Cinetology HQ (left, click to enlarge) with the objective of identifying as many movies, books, characters, musicians and authors as possible. The competition was otherwise known as Spot the Junk on Luke’s Desk.
There [...]
The global economic downturn has inspired a belated sequel to Oliver Stone’s 1987 corporate thriller Wall Street, which featured Michael Douglas in an Oscar-winning performance as ruthless stockbroker shark Gordon Gekko, deliverer of memorable quips such as “lunch is for wimps” and “greed is right, greed works.” Wall Street 2, as it is tentatively titled, [...]
You may recall reading a couple of weeks ago about an incomplete work print of X-Men Origins: Wolverine that was leaked online. Star Hugh Jackman reportedly reacted by saying he was “heartbroken,” a response in stark contrast to the emotional gravitas of his character in the movie – a stony-hearted, ill-tempered mutant with a skeleton [...]
Just a couple of days after announcing it will remake David Cronenberg’s Videodrome, Universal Studios add another cult favourite to their long list of films set to be repackaged for modern audiences. Comedian Russell Brand, who took his stand-up show Scandalous to Melbourne and Sydney last month, has been slated to play the title character [...]
Hollywood is cautiously monitoring the outbreak of swine flu for any signs it may impact box office earnings. The widespread influenza has altered the course of Hugh Jackman’s comic book caper X-Men Origins: Wolverine, with the movie’s release in Mexico postponed at least two weeks in the wake of outbreaks that have taken up to [...]
Universal Pictures has announced it will remake David Cronenberg’s 1983 cult film Videodrome, which stars James Woods as a TV exec who becomes obsessed with a bizarre and mysteriously transfixing program that depicts torture and murder. The film has a once seen, never forgotten weirdness conjured in part by Cronenberg’s kooky visual inventions, including a [...]
Russian filmmaker Sergei Dvortsevoy’s acclaimed drama Tulpan was shot on location in the Betpak Dala in southern Kazakhstan. The film (read my review) follows the plight of Asa (Askhat Kuchencherekov), a young man who dreams of finding a wife and one day owning his own herd. Shortly after Tulpan was completed it premiered in Cannes [...]
Following the infantile exploits of two horny jocks who decide to become cheer leaders in order to meet girls, director Will Gluck’s klutzy debut feature Fired Up! is a raunchy movie without any raunchiness, a gross-out without any gross-outs, a sports story with barely any sport, and – most unforgivably – a comedy with next [...]
Fans of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s classic action/sci-fi hit Predator have reason to cheer, with filmmaker Robert Rodriguez confirming on Thursday at a news conference in Texas that he will produce a franchise reboot called Predators. The plural title has been interpreted – who would have thought? – to mean the story will involve more than [...]
Director Ian Fitzgibbon’s delightfully screwy blood-splotched farce A Film With Me In It focuses on one grotesquely bad day for a pair bumbling layabouts who, through a series of accidents, become entwined in extraordinarily morbid circumstances. It is based on a simple but ingenious premise: what if you were sitting at home doing nothing much [...]
Director Sergei Dvortsevoy’s highly lauded slice-of-Kazakh-life drama Tulpan was filmed on the steppes of southern Kazakhstan in the Betpak Dala, which means ‘Hunger Steppe.’ It’s not hard to figure out why. Dvortsevoy’s cameras soak up the vast emptiness of the landscape, its barren terrain spotted by occasional cattle, yurts and human beings that pop in [...]
Disney’s new subsidiary company Disneynature are cashing in on the eco-aware sentiments floating around these days by launching a clever green-friendly marketing drive for its first film, Earth, released this week in America. Disneynature have pledged to plant one tree per every ticket bought during the film’s first week of release. Created by the makers [...]
May will be a good month for Russell Crowe fans, with two new movies featuring the burly Aussie actor coming out in close succession: Tenderness, directed by Tropfest creator John Polson (opening April 30) and State of Play, from Touching the Void director Kevin Macdonald (opening May 28). Both are thrillers.
Crowe is currently in the U.K. getting [...]
To mark the DVD release of Ten Empty (now available to rent and own) Cinetology give readers the chance to win one of 6 copies. The film is a dark and unnerving psychological drama about a dysfunctional family in Adelaide, directed by Anthony Hayes and starring Daniel Frederiksen, Geoff Morell, Lucy Bell, Tom Budge and [...]
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Phil Grabsky - director of In Search of Beethoven
Jonathan auf der Heide - director of Van Diemen's Land
Ana Kokkinos - director of Blessed
Jeremy Saunders - key art designer
Robert Connolly - writer/director of Balibo
Les Chantery - star of Cedar Boys
Bert Deling - director of Pure Shit
Warwick Thornton - writer/director of Samson & Delilah
Sergei Dvortsevoy - writer/director of Tulpan
Adam Elliot - writer/director of Mary and Max
Mark Forstmann - writer/director of Monkey Puzzle
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