“Five wickedly twisted tales from the next generation of Aboriginal Writer/Directors all looking at the post-colonial Aboriginal experience through the horror genre”
Tag: australian film
Standing Up For Sonny
Everyone involved in this movie wants you to like it, so, so much
RJ Mitte talks ‘Standing Up For Sonny’
Standing Up For Sonny is about Travis who is really reluctant to have a life and ends up getting a roommate who forces him to get out
SOPHIE HYDE ON ANIMALS’ #SYDFILMFEST Premiere
“Animals is about two women around their early thirties and figuring out whether can continue to party and live together and be wild or whether there’s something else they want in life.” “I love Dublin […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S3E11: #SYDFILMFEST PROGAM LAUNCH, SFF DIRECTOR NASHEN MOODLEY, SBS WORLD MOVIES + SPANISH FILM FEST, IRISH FILM FEST & CINEMA REBORN
Where we chat with Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley and fight about our favourite flicks + highlights from the (very) recently launched #SydFilmFest program with resident 2SER cinephile Stephen Hill
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E35: THE MEG, CRAZY RICH ASIANS, BLAZE, FIRST REFORMED, WEST OF SUNSHINE & MIRAI
Where we fight about Ethan Hawke behind and in front of the camera, giant sharks that should have remained extinct, rich folk who are both crazy and Asian, the latest Australian fare and […]
UPGRADE
Upgrade is a B-Movie and when the audience and the film itself embraces this, everyone is going to have a lot of fun. Set in semi-futuristic USA, Grey (Logan Marshall-Green), paralysed following a freak attack […]
CARGO
Cargo is every emerging filmmaker’s dream. A short, lauded at Tropfest, captures studio eyes with a premise more than worthy of a fully funded feature, here adapted to thrilling if flawed effect. Taking over as […]
SWEET COUNTRY
Sometimes it’s never too early to reckon a film has the makings of a classic. Sweet Country’s setting may be of a time and place yet it is a film that figures well beyond it’s […]
DAMIEN POWER ON ‘KILLING GROUND’ NATIONAL RELEASE
“With low budget films you have to really offer people an experience to see it in the cinema – Killing Ground delivers that kind of visceral experience that really gets people talking.” Aussie filmmaker Damien […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 17: WIND RIVER, THAT’S NOT ME & MIFF 2017
Where we fight about the third chapter in Taylor Sheridan’s frontier trilogy, breakout Aussie comedy and Festival hit ‘That’s Not Me’ and all the latest from the Melbourne International Film Festival for Film […]
DAMIEN LIPP ON THE WORLD PREMIERE OF ONE-SHOT WONDER ‘WATCH THE SUNSET’
‘Watch The Sunset’ Producer and Director of Photography Damien Lipp on what it takes to capture a film in one-shot “Watch The Sunset is Australia’s first one-take feature film… it’s basically shot over an […]
OTHERLIFE
Fixing on a great idea or something you haven’t seen before isn’t easy – watching any flick is that much better when you know the filmmakers have floored their premise. Home-grown Aussie sci-fi OtherLife asks […]
DIRECTOR BEN LUCAS ON THE ‘OTHERLIFE’ WORLD PREMIERE
“We distinctly set it in Perth, we set it in Australia, it is now an Australian story, we took the very broad concept that was the novel and did quite a lot of […]
BETTER WATCH OUT
It’s one thing to be knocked off your feet by a top horror flick, it’s another entirely to find out they shot it down the road from your childhood home. Set in a quiet suburban […]
THAT’S NOT ME
Sometimes all you need is a good lead and a good idea. Wannabee actress Polly Cuthbert (Alice Foulcher) has to deal with the newfound on-screen success of her identical twin sister (also, Alice Foulcher). Constantly […]
ELLIPSIS
It’s the Sydney Film Festival – you’d expect there to be at least one love-letter to the city. Conceived, rehearsed and shot in less than two weeks, anyone traipsing between Festival venues will recognise any […]
WE DON’T NEED A MAP
We Don’t Need A Map chronicles Thornton’s exploration, amongst other reflections on Australian society, on that most fairly contentious of symbols the Southern Cross. Himself a subject of controversy for previously positing the perspective, […]
LION
This one’ll get ya – right in the feels. Titled Lion, though you won’t know why until the very end, Director Garth Davis’ latest is based on the true story of Saroo Brierley (played by […]
LA LA LAND LEADS OSCAR NOMINATIONS IN GROUNDBREAKING YEAR
And the nominations are in! Capping off an impressive awards season, La La Land leads the pack with 14 nods including Best Picture, equalling the record set by All About Eve (1950) and matched by […]
OSCARS BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM COMPETITION HEATS UP
Yes, it’s almost that time of year again. Now that Leonardo DiCaprio has finally won an Oscar it’s game-on for any previously shunned blockbuster-magnet turned art-house darling who’s keen to take home gold. With Loving, […]
