The first trailer has dropped for Anthony Maras’ white-knuckle thriller Hotel Mumbai. Hotel Mumbai is based on the true story of the devastating terrorist attack on the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in 2008. The terrifying assault brings together the guests and staff of the luxurious hotel including wealthy new parents David and Zahra (Armie Hammer and Nazanin…
After receiving soaring reviews and widespread critical acclaim during its August theatrical run, the feature documentaryJimmy Barnes: Working Class Boy,is finally available to own from this Wednesday, 14 November. Australians now have the chance to view the documentary at home and learn how the once unknown boy, James Dixon Swan, became the Aussie icon we know…
New web series creator calls bullshit on herself Written and Directed by Loani Arman Produced by Melissa Crabtree Starring Bernie Van Tiel, Chloe De Los Santos, Thomas Larkin and Christen O’leary Article written by Loani Arman My ambition as writer & director of The Mother Load was always to put cultural diversity and women at the forefront of the…
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…
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