Articles by Luke Buckmaster

Zach Braff has snubbed the Hollywood studio system and launched a remarkably successful Kickstarter initiative to finance his new film. In the resulting commotion and commentary, some important factors have been neglected.

The nerve centre of American political power is pulverised in Olympus Has Fallen. Whether it intended to or not, the movie represents a turning point for Hollywood blockbusters.

A fresh batch of Paul Hogan related headlines reminds us that while the Crocodile Dundee star might have a large knife, he may also have a limited capacity for smart business decisions.

Tom Cruise and the director of Tron Legacy teamed up to make a US$100+ million art movie. It didn’t quite go to plan.

Director Danny Boyle’s new thriller is more psychotic than psychological — a wallop to the senses that comes on like gangbusters and never relents.

Jeff Orlowski’s Oscar-nominated climate change documentary Chasing Ice reveals the delicate craft of measuring global warming on glacial ice. It’s no easy job — and neither is making a film about it.

The life of veteran American film critic Roger Ebert is inspiring for many reasons. None more so than those relating to his greatest “crime.”

When a Die Hard movie doesn’t have a single well-staged action sequence, you know something went badly wrong.

Oscar-nominated director Alex Gibney’s exposé about sex abuse in the Catholic church may be slanted, but it has every right to be.

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is the latest example of how CGI can mess up depictions of magic on film. To discover why venture back with me to my former life as an amateur magician…

Paul Fenech has been lobbing comedy grenades for eons. Whether he intended it or not, his latest movie is one of Australia’s most brutal satires of lower class suburbia.

Hollywood executives who followed the yellow brick road found it ended in legal disputes and unprecedented laws regarding usage of public domain and copyright regulation.

James Franco is the Wizard of Oz. Mark Wahlberg is Mark Wahlberg. In this fortnight’s The Parallax Podcast, Luke Buckmaster and Rich Haridy review Oz: The Great and Powerful, Broken City and a trio of strange DVD releases.

In the wake of Australia’s latest film censorship controversy, Hollywood star James Franco has weighed in, slamming the Classification Board.

The cast and crew of Australian drama Blinder have shown courage in confronting complex issues head on. And with that courage should come the conviction to admit they got it very, very wrong.

It’s an appealing premise: an unpretentious cricket-themed comedy featuring fair dinkum Aussie blokes who travel to India. The results are a mixed bag.

Post-Governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to his first starring role in almost a decade in The Last Stand. In this new era of Arnie, how does the film represent his values as a politician?