February, 2011

Teenagers run amok like fallen angels in a drug-drenched paradise in Wasted on the Young, a scorching ultra modern morality fable that uses school grounds, party houses and internet connections as stomping grounds for social allegory. Based in a hyper real parallel universe populated by students, where adults exist but we never see their faces, [...]

This year’s Golden Choc-Tops are almost over (stay strong, stay strong). Presenting day four’s awards, with gongs for Best Unreleased Film and The George Clooney Award for Silky Smooth Screen Charisma. And the winners are…

Presenting day three of the Golden Choc-Tops, with awards today for the Best Australian Film of 2010 and the Malcolm Tucker Award for Most Deplorable On Screen Personality. And the winners are…

Presenting day two of the Golden Choc-Tops, with awards today for The Most Intense Sweat-Drenched Ride to Nowhere (otherwise known as the Best Confined Space Thriller) and The Best Sequel of 2010. Find out who won.

Last year I kicked off the Golden Choc-Tops, Crikey’s annual film awards season that runs for five days in the lead up to the Academy Awards, broadcast next Monday Australian time. So brush your hair, powder your nose and slip on your finest outfit because it’s once again Choc-Top time. Every day I award two [...]

To mark the Australian theatrical release of director Charles Ferguson’s documentary Inside Job, Cinetology gives readers the chance to win one of 20 in season double passes valid nationwide at any cinema screening the film. Inside Job opens in Australia this Thursday, February 17.

This week Cracked.com published a cracker of a story that provides compelling evidence that writer/director Christopher Nolan’s brainy blockbuster Inception, which has been nominated for eight Oscars including Best Original Screenplay, might not have been an original idea at all.

Here it is, folks: this week’s episode of RE:VIEW. On the program I discuss the bright and glossy Disney animation Gnomeo & Juliet (executive produced by Elton John) and director Danny Boyle’s Oscar nominated drama 127 Hours. Enjoy!

Presenting the so-called feel good film of the year: a story about a mountain climber who literally gets caught between a rock and a hard place and must survive by enduring feats of physical strength comparable to the body mutilation challenges on exhibition in the Saw movies. Director Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours was inspired by [...]

There has always been something of a Greek god-like persona to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, former professional wrestler and consummate beefcake whose horizon-broad shoulders have survived an unlikely transition from the WWF circuit to Sunset Boulevard, where he’s forged a respectable career in the movie business. It would take a bold critic to argue that [...]

What’s that? You want a brand new weekly video program in which I discuss some of the latest films playing in Australian cinemas? Ignoring the compliment a previous colleague once gave me – “Buckmaster, you’ve got a great face for radio” – I’ve decided to provide just that with RE:VIEW. This week I take aim [...]

Stephen Frears is not known as an interviewee who is particularly kind or accommodating to film journalists. The two time Oscar nominated director of films such as The Queen, High Fidelity, Dangerous Liaisons, Dirty Pretty Things, The Grifters, Mary Reilly and now Tamara Drewe is in fact known for precisely the opposite: blunt, impatient and [...]

So here we have it: the first Australian made 3D blockbuster-to-be, with none other than box office king of the world James Cameron attached as executive producer. Sanctum is the story of a underwater cave diving team who explore one of the world’s most treacherous cave networks and, lo and behold, have a great deal [...]