Trailer Talk: AACTA best film nominees

Tomorrow night will decide whether or not Baz Lurhmann will have to add an extension to his house as the second round of AACTA awards are announced. After the American produced The Great Gatsby took home every feature film award at Tuesday’s first announcement – or the ones considered too boring for television – Cinema Australia is hoping…

Mystery Road hits the small screen

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…

Review: A slow drive down Mystery Road

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…