Jugular premiere gets baked in Northbridge

Director JJ DeCeglie’s Jugular will have its red carpet premiere at the Bakery in Northbridge on Friday night. The Fremantle novelist-turned-director’s debut feature won big at last year’s Melbourne Underground Film Festival taking out Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor for Gregory Pakis. Pakis plays Jack, a man whose world spirals into madness and violence…

Q&A: Meet Aim High in Creation director Anna Broinowski

Cinema Nova, Melbourne’s home of quality art house and contemporary cinema, will be hosting a Q&A session with Australian filmmaker, Anna Broinowski. The documentary filmmaker will be presenting her film Aim High in Creation, a revolutionary comedy about the cinematic genius of North Korea’s late leader Kim Jon-il, with a ground breaking experiment at its…

Trailer: The Infinite Man

If you’re like everyone else I’ve shown The Infinite Man trailer to then your first response will be, “Groundhog Day?” Hugh Sullivan’s time travel comedy/romance does bare a resemblance to the Bill Murray film but looks like it has enough quirk to stand on its own. I’m really looking forward to the response The Infinite Man gets…

Win The Turning on Blu-ray

Tim Winton’s The Turning is released on DVD and Blu-Ray today. Discover an extraordinary filmmaking collaboration in TIM WINTON’S THE TURNING. Eighteen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning author Tim Winton. The linking and overlapping stories explore the extraordinary turning points in…

The Turning on ABC1

Those who missed Robert Connolly’s adaptation of Tim Winton’s The Turning at the cinema are in for a treat this Sunday night… and you don’t even have to leave you home. ABC1 will be screening the omnibus on Sunday, 23rd February at 9.40. Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter…

Focus on 2014: 52 Tuesdays

52 Tuesdays STARRING Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Del Herbert-Jane, Mario Spate DIRECTED BY Sophie Hyde WRITTEN BY Matthew Cormack CINEMATOGRAPHY Bryan Mason RELEASE DATE 1 May, 2014 CINEMA AUSTRALIA SAY This film is making some noise. Four nominations at the Sundance Film Festival including a win for director Sophie Hyde and two nominations at the Berlin International Film Festival including the Crystal Bear for best…

John Doe: Vigilante Oz release date announced

JOHN DOE: VIGILANTE STARRING Jamie Bamber, Lachy Hulme and Bryce Hardy DIRECTED BY Kelly Dolen WRITTEN BY Stephen M. Coates CINEMATOGRAPHY David Parker RELEASE DATE May 1, 2014 CINEMA AUSTRALIA SAY We’re not sure what to make of either of the 2 trailers for Kelly Dolen’s new film, or the publicity behind it. The filmmakers seem keen to let us know that…