October 19, 2011 – 6:18 pm
More than 10 weeks into its theatrical release, director Kriv Stenders’s all ages ode to the power and personality of a pedigree pooch, Red Dog, is still taking chunky bites out of the box office. Last weekend the film (which opened August 4) earned $322,892, pushing it over the $20 million milestone. This makes Red [...]
October 12, 2011 – 2:09 pm
Producers of the Australian film Surviving Georgia have responded to a Crikey story published last week by making 11th-hour changes to its marketing materials in the lead-up to its theatrical release in select cinemas tomorrow. Prompted by a story broken by blogger Glenn Dunks, Crikey reported that the pseudo tear-jerker drama splashed a glowing four-star “review” [...]
December 12, 2010 – 11:48 am
Writer/director David Michod’s Melbourne-set crime drama Animal Kingdom ruled the roost last night at the 2010 Australian Film Institute Awards, winning 10 gongs from a record 18 nominations. The result surprised nobody, other than perhaps those who thought it might’ve won a couple more awards given the tsunami of Animal Kingdom acclaim that’s been flooding [...]
November 11, 2010 – 3:36 pm
In the latest chapter of the gay zombie porn saga that, in the great tradition of the walking dead, simply refuses to die, the home of Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) director Richard Wolstencroft (pictured above) was raided by police this morning. They were on the hunt for copies of director Bruce LaBruce’s horror movie [...]
November 8, 2010 – 12:38 pm
Here’s the movie the Mildura tourism industry has been anticipating for years: a sumptuously shot postcard drama about a romance between a fair dinkum orange grower and a traveling antipodean who soak up the sights, smells and juices of this quaint and picturesque Victorian town. Writer/director Richard Gray’s unassuming story is told largely from the [...]
October 27, 2010 – 4:35 pm
It will come as a surprise to nobody with a scintilla of knowledge about the Australian film industry that journo-cum-director David Michôd’s Melbourne-set crime opus Animal Kingdom scored big at this year’s AFI Awards nominations, which were announced earlier this afternoon. The film was nominated in every category in which it was eligible – 18 [...]
January 13, 2010 – 1:35 pm
First glimpse of Dennis Quaid playing Bill Clinton The first still of Dennis Quaid playing Bill Clinton emerged last week from the set of The Special Relationship, which is not – contrary to the insinuation plenty of us will read from the title – about the former President’s raunchy rendezvous with Monica Lewinsky. The Richard [...]
The first still (left, click to enlarge) has surfaced from the set of director Wes Anderson’s stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s novel Fantastic Mr. Fox. It depicts PJ-clad Mr and Mrs Fox (voice of George Clooney and Meryl Streep), a young child fox and Badger (voice of Bill Murray). While the image itself isn’t [...]
As its title suggests The Fox & the Child is a slight, quaint and syrupy sweet all-ages yarn about the relationship between a young ‘un and a wild fox. It’s Luc Jacquet’s semi-autobiographical follow-up to his 2005 surprise smash hit March of the Penguins, and like its predecessor this warmly shot and convincingly staged film [...]
In 2003 Aussie writing/directing/editing tag team Michael and Peter Spierig – aka The Spierig Brothers – unleashed one hell of a feature debut with Undead, a terrifically screwy Australian zombie movie about a fishing village overcome by grisly, slobbery, flesh-chewing post-life citizens. The film has one particularly memorable and entirely zingerific lines of dialogue: a [...]
Samson & Delilah, the Cannes-selected breakthrough feature of writer/director Warwick Thornton, follows the gradual partnership of two indigenous teenagers who live in a small impoverished rural community outside Alice Springs. It is a film of slow and menacing beauty, phlegmatically unravelled with painfully authentic performances delivered in front of vast and vacuous backdrops soaked up [...]
April 22, 2009 – 12:15 am
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. [...]
Home grown star-on-the-rise Emily Browning turned heads in 2004 with her breakthrough performance in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. It was an especially impressive feat, given it’s never easy for anyone to turn heads when they’re starring alongside Jim Carrey. Browning can currently be seen on Australian screens – though not for much [...]
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