In the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast, Matthew Eeles chats with much-loved Australian actor Steve Bastoni. Steve’s credits include Police Rescue, Neighbours and Underbelly, as well as films including Drift, The Matrix Reloaded, The Water Diviner and more recently Heath Davis’ Broke. He’s also the creator and founder of the Peninsula Short Film…
Brave, bold, passionate filmmakers thinking outside the box, turning a simple idea into one of the most interesting filmmaking concepts in recent memory. We don’t hear enough of these stories coming out of the Australian film industry. Sarah Jayne and her partner, Ivan, are in post-production on their new film, Friends, Foes and Fireworks – a fully improvised comedy/drama set…
It’s only fitting Lazybones has it’s first screening at one of Melbourne’s major new film festivals. The sharp new Australian film captures the city it’s set in with beautiful simplicity – from it’s busting night markets to its sleepy outer suburbs. We caught up with the film’s creators Caitlin Farrugia (writer/producer) and Michael Jones (writer/director) ahead of tomorrow…
“Everyone wanted to interview Stephen Peacocke,” director Kane Guglielmi told me during an early morning Skype chat, just three days before his new film’s premiere. I was surprised considering Peacocke has only one scene in the film. “Now that he’s done a few studio films there’s a lot more buzz around him, rather than just being…
In the latest episode of the Cinema Australia Podcast, Matthew Eeles chats with sisters Sophie and Dominique Mathisen about their new Australian film Drama. It’s over a year since Anna split with John and life in London seems only to be getting harder. She isn’t landing auditions and the pressure from family to make it…
“As you get older there’s almost nothing cooler than being yourself and staying true to that.” Interview by Matthew Eeles Toby Wallace and Mitzi Ruhlmann are a part of something huge. Their new film, director Nicholas Verso’s Boys in the Trees, is one of the hottest, most stylised visual pieces to come out of Australia in a…
The Howard Years by Matthew Eeles A few minutes into my conversation with John Howard the busy actor enthusiastically tells me he’s working on a new show with the ABC called The Warriors. Ironic considering the nature of our conversation. We’re here to discuss The Club – his first feature film about an AFL football…
“It was like a dream come true to see that happen in Italy and see the Aussies and the Italians working together side-by-side and bringing out the best in each other.” by Matthew Eeles Tell us a bit about The Space Between. What’s it about? The Space Between is about the character of Marco who…
We’re hearing a lot of the same questions being thrown at the Spin Out cast during their press junket for Tim Ferguson and Marc Gracie’s fantastic new Australian film. We thought we’d mix it up a little by finding out how much the Spin Out cast really know each other after spending so much time…
With only one other, rather unsettling film to his name, director JJ DeCeglie has created a genuinely hilarious film with Can’t Win. Do Try. Can’t Win. Do Try. follows Gordon, an engaged 25 year old with a fresh mortgage. In a bid to extend his adolescence he convinces his reluctant fiancée to allow his best-friend Jez…
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