November 30, 2011 – 6:57 pm
The title may sound pompous and esoteric, but The Ides of March arrives wrapped in audience friendly packaging despite its potentially restrictive subject matter: back room machinations and interpersonal powerplays in the lead-up to an important US Democrat Primary. The film assembles four of the best and savviest in-vogue male actors the Hollywood conveyor belt has to [...]
November 30, 2011 – 3:45 pm
Nominations for the inaugural Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) – a re-jigged AFI Awards — were announced this afternoon. Director Daniel Nettheim‘s Tasmanian-set cross-country drama The Hunter, starring Willem Dafoe, leads the pack with 14 nominations. Fred Schipisi’s The Eye of the Storm follows with 12, Justin Kurzel’s Snowtown with 10 and Kriv Krenders’s crowd-pleaser Red Dog [...]
November 29, 2011 – 12:52 pm
Norwegian director Tom Six’s throat-clogging horror film The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) has been slapped with a Refused Classification rating by the Australian Classification Review Board (ACRB), effectively banning it from distribution in Australia. The film has been KBed from local screens despite being green-lit in May, when it was given an R rating. [...]
November 28, 2011 – 4:48 pm
It’s obvious from the opening scenes of Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead that wet around the ears documentarian Joe Cross never went to film school, never debated the merits of gonzo, expository or observational approaches to documentary. Cross is the antithesis of a filmmaking expert, an inexperience he spins into a virtue as the audience [...]
November 25, 2011 – 3:47 pm
Writer/director Jon Hewitt takes to the streets of Kings Cross, Sydney, to plunge a low budget home ground thriller into the scungy world of street sex workers and back alley crimes. Pretty girls, dirty acts, low-rent bantering and street curb deals kick off a plot that pries open murder, on-the-run action and various tiers of [...]
November 24, 2011 – 8:35 pm
To say Norwegian writer/director Tom Six’s The Human Centipede II is vastly better, or vastly more intellectually engaging, or considerably less likely to incite audiences to hurl objects at their screens than its predecessor is faint praise indeed, given the throat-clogging gratuitousness of his pointless 2009 vomit bag venture. Nor is it a selling point for the vast majority [...]
November 23, 2011 – 11:17 pm
Gems ‘n’ Junk From the Cult Cache combs the vast wastelands of cinema history to unearth flicks buried beneath the surface of popular entertainment. In this instalment: For Your Height Only. He’s smart, he’s sexy, he’s dangerous…he’s 3 feet tall! So espouses the sell-the-sizzle sentence stamped across the DVD cover of Fillipino director Eddie Micart’s unashamedly trashy [...]
November 22, 2011 – 9:12 am
Few films that deal with the pain and suffering from the loss of a loved one are as bold and innovative as Burning Man, a scorching new Australian drama from writer/director/producer Jonathan Teplitzky. His third and by far best feature film (Teplitzky also directed Better Than Sex and Gettin’ Square), Burning Man follows the whirlwind [...]
November 21, 2011 – 2:48 pm
To mark the DVD release of mobster action/drama Kill the Irishman, starring Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken and Val Kilmer, Cinetology gives readers the chance to win one of five copies of the DVD. For your chance to win simply become a fan of Cinetology on Facebook (if you already have, skip that step) then email me your [...]
November 20, 2011 – 8:19 pm
No, the title of writer/director Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin is not inspired by the first words Julia Gillard’s PR team have greeted her with at the kick-off of every meeting since June 24, 2010. The Kevin depicted in Ramsay’s film — a disturbing suburban thriller framed with the non-linear structure of [...]
November 18, 2011 – 2:57 pm
Writer/director Jonathan Teplitzky’s scorching Australian drama Burning Man arrives in cinemas today. I reviewed the film a month ago; click here to read it. It’z a doozy (the film, not the review). Early next week I’ll be publishing a revealing interview I conducted with Teplitzky a fortnight ago. A guaranteed good read.
November 14, 2011 – 4:41 pm
Here comes the first line, the kick-off, the opening siren, the bit to lure the reader in, the string of letters, syllables ‘n’ words to get the ‘em interested, get ‘em involved, get ‘em to take a nibble and hopefully they’ll want to digest the rest. There might be a splash of colour, a sparkling adjective [...]
November 12, 2011 – 3:28 pm
Capote director Bennett Miller takes to the field to adapt a real life sports story with a built-in triumph-against-the-odds trajectory potentially as cheesy as a deep fried Pizza Hut margarita dipped in a bucket of melted cheddar and lathered with a three inch thick coating of triple cream brie. Instead Miller shows how the syrup [...]
November 11, 2011 – 10:36 am
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have confirmed the replacement host for next year’s Oscars ceremony after Eddie Murphy quit yesterday: veteran Billy Crystal, who has hosted the show eight times previously. After a very bad week of PR the choice is understandable but boring. In one fell swoop the Academy have moved [...]
November 10, 2011 – 8:09 am
In a move that has turned an embarrassment into a disaster, Eddie Murphy has quit as host of next year’s Oscars ceremony a day after the show’s producer, director Brett “rehearsal’s for fags” Ratner, stood down after a series of controversial slurs. This leaves the Oscars, Hollywood’s most prestigious stage-managed show — an annual round [...]
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