“I won’t tell you what it’s about but it’s called Jason’s Story. It’s super, super scary. It’s really hard core.” Interview by Matthew Eeles Warwick Thornton’s cheeky chuckle is infectious. You can’t help but feel happy for the boy from Alice Springs who graduated from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School and went on to win…
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…
Iconic Australian actor David Field and co-director George Basha will be in Rockingham, WA Thursday. The two will be presenting their new film Convict at United Cinemas followed by a special Q&A session with the pair. Tickets are available from the United Cinemas website or from the films official web page. Official synopsis: Ray (George…
Finally, the trailer for The Babadook has lunged out of it’s dark closet and onto our computer screens. Jennifer Kent’s extension of her short film Monster looks truly terrifying and of the highest quality. It’s already making some noise at Sundance and is sure to provide a lot of scares when it hits Australian cinemas sometime this…
ABC1 will be celebrating Australia Day by screening Ivan Sen’s outback thriller, Mystery Road on Sunday 26th January at 8.30pm. Indigenous cowboy detective Jay Swan returns to his outback home town, to solve the murder of a teenage girl whose body is found under the highway trucking route out of town. You can read our review…
If you love the incredibly popular The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert or have been living under a rock and have never seen it, then this is the event for you. 28 February 2014, 5:30pm Arc cinema, Canberra, ACT Tickets available through Ticketek Australia NFSA are celebrating the 20th anniversary of Stephan Elliot’s The Adventures of Priscilla,…
Village Club Members have the chance to catch an early screening of Wolf Creek 2. Village Cinemas will be showing early screenings on Wednesday, 19th February at 9.00pm, one day before the films national release. The cinema is also offering prizes for people dressed down in their favourite flannel shirts. Tickets are $10 and can…
Aussie film lovers planning to attend this years’ 21st Mardi Gras Film Festival are in for a real treat with five feature films and four documentaries programmed to screen. A selection of the films will also feature Q&As with cast and crew members (see below). My Queer Career will also screen locally made short films…
Transmission Films tweeted the latest Australian theatrical poster for their new film, Tracks this morning. Starring Mia Wasikowska and directed by John Curran, Tracks hits cinemas on March 6 and will be reviewed here at Cinema Australia early February. FIRST LOOK: The Australian theatrical poster for John Curran's TRACKS starring Mia Wasikowska. In cinemas March 6! pic.twitter.com/lMBq0OLtpL…
This Australia Day long weekend, Screen Australia is pleased to support the return to the big screen of the classic Australian family comedy The Castle (M), exclusively at Event Cinemas. Screen Australia’s Chief Executive Graeme Mason said, “The Castle is an iconic Australian film which has had a long and enduring impact on our culture and we’re pleased to be…
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