Who is Mick Taylor? We all know he’s the last person you’d want to come across in the outback and that he’s a foreign backpacker’s worst nightmare. He’s especially aggressive towards the English and loves to dismember people from head to toe. But what motivates his seemingly senseless killings? An abusive upbringing? An equally deranged…
39 years after her trek from the red dust of Alice Springs to the crystal clear waters of the Indian Ocean, with just her dog Diggity and four camels as company, Robyn Davidson’s Tracks has finally reached the big screen. In her book of the same name, and of which this film is based, Robyn…
With our cinemas littered with horror reboots full of fright-less protagonists getting horny over bare-boobed bimbos Warwick Thornton’s The Darkside is brimming with the key ingredient those Hollywood cookie cutter same olds are lacking; hair-raising scares. This beautifully shot, hypnotic documentary is an eerie compendium of 13 unnerving stories told by either the original teller…
Based on the biographical memoir of Australian philosopher Raimond Gaita, Romulus, My Father tells of the misfortunes Raimond (Kodi Smit-McPhee) suffered in 1960’s Australia as his father, Romulus, (Eric Bana), struggled to bring him up during a time of adversity. As a hard-working migrant farmer outside of Maryborough, Victoria, Romulus had a great determination to…
Imagine coming across a destructive car accident. It’s absolute chaos and there is debris everywhere. Both cars are written-off and it’s unclear whether anyone has survived. You can’t look away. That’s The Boy Castaways, a new film and directorial debut from esteemed theatre director, Michael Kantor. Now imagine your relief when you realise the firemen…
A film about two passionate and sensual love affairs would usually be enough to stimulate even the slightest bit of sexual arousal, but it’s hard to be turned on by Anne Fontaine’s Adoration. It’s an awkward and uncomfortable piece of cinema, with a storyline better suited to the French coast rather than Sydney, Australia. Lil…
Ivan Sen’s new Australian film Mystery Road, his fourth feature as a director, is as simple as movies come. It’s set in a small outback town and is structured around basic, overdone character stereotypes who provide just as many thrills as a bad episode of Blue Healers. Aaron Pedersen plays Jay Swan, a detective who…
If The Turning is one thing, it’s an introduction to future Australian film makers. And judging by the talent on display within, we’re in the most capable of hands. Created by Balibo director Robert Connolly and developed around Tim Winton’s multiple award-winning collection of individual stories, The Turning’s 17 episodes are an alluring collection of…
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