On a cold winter morning Dawn commits a seemingly senseless crime, leaving a man unconscious, but she is running from something bigger. Dawn is harbouring a shattering secret. Taking flight with her young daughter, Steph, they hide out in a remote hills town where she tries to keep her restless daughter from prying eyes. Unpredictable…
With society in decline, the rule of law has disintegrated and life is cheap. Hardened loner Eric travels the desolate towns and roads of the scorched and dangerous Australian outback. When a brutal gang of thieves steals his car and only remaining possession, they leave behind the wounded Rey in their wake. Forcing Rey to…
Written by Rolf de Heer and David Gulpilil as a collaborative project, Charlie’s Country stars Gulpilil as blackfella Charlie, who is getting older, and is out of sorts. The government’s intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws that don’t generally make much sense, and…
Principal photography begins on Monday (5th May) on the family comedy Oddball – the true story of Swampy Marsh, an eccentric chicken farmer who, with the help of his granddaughter, trains his mischievous dog to protect a wild penguin sanctuary from fox attacks and in the process reunites his family and saves their seaside town. …
As one of Seven Group Holdings’ first productions, Russell Crowe’s directorial debut, The Water Diviner was plugged heavily on 7’s Sunday Night program. Starring Russell Crowe (GLADIATOR, A BEAUTIFUL MIND) and Olga Kurylenko (OBLIVION, QUANTUM OF SOLACE), THE WATER DIVINER is an epic adventure set four years after the devastating battle of Gallipoli in Turkey…
Cinema Australia can’t wait for May 22 when Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook is released in Australian cinemas. I don’t know how many more times we can watch the terrifying trailer or the original short film in anticipation for Kent’s psychological thriller but to satisfy us for another couple of weeks is a new short clip that was released this…
A brand new trailer for Samuel Sheffield’s How To Time Travel dropped yesterday and it looks amazing. If you’re in Melbourne on Tuesday, 22nd April you can catch the premier of this rom-sci-fi at the Astor Theatre. Starring Adam Balales, Ryan A. Murphy, Tara Carey and Sarah Wickham, How To Time Travel tells the story of Jones.…
Hot of the news David Michôd’s The Rover will be screening as part of the Cannes Film Festival, the Australian director’s followup to his incredibly successful Animal Kingdom has been given a new poster and a new trailer. The Rover boasts a impressive ensemble of Australian acting talent including Guy Pearce, David Field, Anthony Hayes and Nash Edgerton. A…
Perth-born novelist JJ DeCeglie makes his feature film debut with JUGULAR, and what a debut it is! Tense, claustrophic and genuinely harrowing, JUGULAR follows one man’s nightmarish decent into the recesses of his own mind. Recesses from which there are no escape. Jack is straight off the plane. He has few friends and no money. In desperation, he…
May 2014 is set to be a massive month with five highly anticipated Australian films set to hit cinemas. 52 Tuesdays 16-year-old Billie’s reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans to gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons. Filmed over the course of a year, once a week,…
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