Mad Max: Fury Road (movie 2015) review: Charlize Theron is the de facto ‘hero’ in George Miller’s post-apocalyptic actioner. Tom Hardy costars.
Australian Cinema
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Golden Globes Winners: Early Technical Glitch Led to Much Ado About Nothing while Julianne Moore took home 1 statuette as expected.
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Robert Pattinson Three ‘Summer Movies’?
8 minutes readRobert Pattinson: Mission Blacklist. Robert Pattinson Mission: Blacklist movie: Filming in August? Mission: Blacklist is not the upcoming fifth installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise starring Tom Cruise. For the …
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South (Movie 1919): Harrowing Antarctic Expedition
3 minutes readSouth (movie 1919) review: Explorer Ernest Shackleton and his landmark Antarctic expedition are depicted in beautiful and harrowing detail in this silent era documentary.
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Filmmaker/animator Sarah Watt, winner of the Australian Film Institute’s (AFI) Best Director and Best Screenplay awards for the 2006 drama Look Both Ways died at age 53 on Nov. 4. …
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AFI Awards criminal family values movie wins 10 trophies while Jane Campion romantic drama gets 3 plus supporting or lead Jacki Weaver for the Oscars?
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The White Ribbon Movie Rare Triple European Win
22 minutes readThe White Ribbon movie rare triple European Film Awards win + Kate Winslet shows EFA must change eligibility rules + Aborigine drama tops Australian Oscars.
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Camorra Movie Tops European Film Awards + Autism & Human Trafficking Dominate Australian Oscars
26 minutes readCamorra movie Tops European Film Awards + Autism and Human Trafficking Dominate Australian Oscars + Golden Horse Award winners for Jet Li war film.
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Oscar Best Song Longlist: Disney + Freedom of Speech + Immigrant Dramas Top Australian Awards
32 minutes readOscar Best Song Longlist includes Freedom of Speech Ditty from Larry Flynt doc + 2 Immigrant Family Dramas with Eric Bana and Joan Chen Top AFI Awards.
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Rogue Movie + Arn: The Knight Templar Controversy
7 minutes readRogue movie: Crocodile horror thriller stars Michael Vartan. ‘Rogue’ movie opens in Darwin: Killer crocodile tale reportedly the most expensive Australian horror movie ever Rogue, the story of an American …
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Dysfunctional families: Little Miss Sunshine. With five nods each, the crowd-pleasing dysfunctional family comedy Little Miss Sunshine (US$59 million at the U.S. and Canada box office) and the socio-psychological drama …
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Silent Films’ Actresses in Berlin + Louise Brooks Turns 100
13 minutes readJanet Gaynor and George O’Brien in Sunrise, an early Academy Award winner directed by F. W. Murnau. Berlin Film Festival: Women in Silent Films The Retrospective sidebar of the 2007 …
Harold Hopkins: Gallipoli + AFI-Nominated The Club Actor
Harold Hopkins remembered: Gallipoli + AFI-nominated The Club actor also seen as an attorney with a very high sex drive (caught in the act) in Don’s Party.
Edward Woodward in Breaker Morant with Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Bryan Brown, Jack Thompson. Edward Woodward, the star of the 1980s television series The Equalizer and of the big-screen classics The Wicker …
Viggo Mortensen vs. Penélope Cruz: Goya Awards + Unusual Australian Aborigines Drama Tops AFI
Goya Awards Nominations: Mercenary Viggo Mortensen vs. Manchega Penélope Cruz plus 2 anti-Franco movies: darkly violent fairy tale and Salvador biopic.