Environmental activists meet their match when they tangle with 4WD adventurers in Rough Stuff, which crashes into Australian cinemas from March 16. Rough Stuff is the action-packed story of an activist group making a dubious deal with treasure-seeking Rovers and their modified four-wheel-drives for an expedition through treacherous Australian terrain. Tensions rise and ulterior motives are…
by Matthew Eeles Cinema Australia readers have been given an early look at Joseph Russell’s neo-noir science fiction thriller, Silent Man which recently wrapped filming for the year. Filming on Silent Man will recommence in late February or early March next year. “The hiatus is due to prior cast and crew commitments in January,” director Russell told…
Australian films are famous for villains; Wolf Creek’s Mick Taylor, Snowtown’s John Bunting, Lola from The Loved Ones and who could forget Animal Kingdom’s Janine Cody terrifyingly portrayed by Jacki Weaver – a performance that earned the legendary Australian actress an Academy Award nomination. Unfortunately not all of them hit the mark, especially the creatures, critters and varied wildlife gashing and slashing…
The Australian mystery thriller feature film Crushed will have its world premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival being held 27 August – 7 September 2015. Crushed will screen in the First Films World Competition for debut filmmakers. The independent film, shot in the wine region of Mudgee, New South Wales is the feature directorial debut of…
A world premiere release date for director Nick Robertson’s new South Australian shot thriller The Pack has been announced. CinéfestOZ will host the film’s world premiere on Thursday, 27th August with another screening scheduled for the following day. The Pack will also screen at Adelaide Film Festival and Friday Fright Night at both Lodo Cinema and New Farm…
A brand new trailer has dropped for Tony Ayres’ highly anticipated crime thriller, Cut Snake. Check it out below and let us know what you think. It’s the mid-1970s, and Sparra Farrell (Russell), a fiercely private young man, is trying to make a new life for himself in a new city, and to escape a violent…
Strongman Pictures Entertainment announce the release of the long awaited female wrestling, exploitation action flick, From Parts Unknown: Fight Like a Girl (aka Fight Like a Girl) on DVD and VOD platforms across Australia on August 19th, and the UK and USA early 2016. After almost 9 years the wrestle-apocalypse has finally arrived. From Parts Unknown: Fight…
As a non-profit website dedicated to the support and promotion of Australian made films, Cinema Australia rarely gets the opportunity to throw cash at crowdfunding projects. Trust us, if we had the money we’d be executive producers on almost every new Australian film calling for supporters through the myriad of crowdfunding platforms available on the interwebs. That’s…
The Dressmaker, one of the year’s most anticipated Australian film’s, dropped its brand new trailer this morning. Set in the 1950, The Dressmaker is a bittersweet comedy about a glamorous young woman who returns, after many years in Europe, to her small home town in rural Australia in order to right some wrongs from the…
Audiences who weren’t lucky enough to attend this year’s Sydney Film Festival have been treated to the first trailer for Neil Armfield’s Holding the Man today. Armfield’s first film since 2006’s Candy, Holding the Man looks like it’s going to be a very polished interpretation of Timothy Conigrave’s best-selling memoir. If you’ve seen the film,…
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