A razor-sharp satire about the trials of a junior editor in a toxic media agency is making waves online, with more than 12k YouTube views registered since the pilot episode launched last Monday. For A Good Cause was created by emerging writer and director Tony Walsh (The Bus Knight, Sodium Squad) with funding from Screen…
So. Many. Great. Films. 2018 has been a great year for Australian films which started with the release of Warwick Thornton’s outback Western, Sweet Country. Which film will join Love is Now, Holding the Man, The Legend of Ben Hall and Innuendo The Bad Twin as the winner of the Cinema Australia 2018 Audience Award? Voting for…
Actor Eric Bana (Munich, Romulus, My Father, Chopper) has been cast as the lead role of Aaron Falk in the feature film adaptation of Jane Harper’s bestselling and award-winning novel The Dry, producers Made Up Stories announced today. Robert Connolly (Balibo, Paper Planes, Deep State) is set to direct from a script written by Connolly…
by David Morgan-Brown A breezy and not-too-dramatic road movie was not an unwelcome entry in the Australian New Wave near the end of the ‘70s, particularly given the number of searing and serious socio-political films that had been previously released in the decade such as Wake in Fright, The Last Wave, The Chant of Jimmie…
Written and Directed by Wayne Tunks Produced by Nicholas Price and Wayne Tunks Cinematography by Nicholas Price Editing by Paul Anthony Nelson Sound Design by Peter “PJ” Johnson Composing by Tony Ling Starring Tristan Clark, Prudence Holloway, Jasper Lee Lindsey, Robert Miniter, Jacinta Moses, Bronte Parkin, Nick Sinclair, Anton Smilek, Wayne Tunks and David Woodland…
Internationally acclaimed English actress Miranda Richardson will join Sam Neill and Michael Caton in a unique reimagining of award-winning Icelandic film Rams (Hrútar), currently shooting in Mt Barker in Western Australia’s Great Southern region. With two Oscar nominations, multiple Olivier, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations and awards, and a career spanning nearly four decades on stage…
My guest on this episode is David Fairhurst – the writer, director, co-producer and co-editor of the claustrophobic, mind-bending psychological thriller Reaching Distance. Logan, a cynic with a photographic memory, follows his sister’s killer onto a night-rider bus. As the line between past and present begins to blur on the journey, Logan uncovers he has…
A release date has been announced for The Combination Redemption. Directed by David Field and written by George Basha, the sequel to the gritty 2009 drama The Combination will be released in cinemas nationwide on February 7, 2019. The Combination opened in cinemas In February 2009 and was immediately hailed by critics and audiences alike as…
Written, produced and directed by Taya Calder-Mason Starring: Matthew Clarke, Taya Calder-Mason, Paul Antony Rogers, Brenton Price and Caleb Havebond Fight Like a Woman follows young local boxer, Lanie Ray (Taya Calder-Mason) as she prepares to fight against popular male rival, Ricky Louis (Matthew Clarke). Article by Taya Calder-Mason The concept for Fight Like a…
Storm Ashwood’s The School will be released in select cinemas from December 6. You can read our full review of the film here. A doctor, wife and grieving mother. Amy (Megan Drury) is falling. It has been two years and she still cannot manage to leave her comatose son, David’s side. Amy falls further into her own selfish…
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