“I love comedies, I love to be able to do really funny films, making the audiences laugh is something very interesting and very difficult, but at the same time I wanted to have a serious […]
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SULLY
On January 15, 2009, a US Airways plane was on a regular flight from New York’s LaGuardia to Charlotte, North Carolina, when the unprecedented happened. A flock of birds flew directly into the flight path, […]
DON’T BREATHE
Like any good fright, Don’t Breathe came from out of nowhere. The surprise smash, made for under $10 million, knocked Suicide Squad from the top spot at this weekend’s box office, proving that however much you hype […]
GENE WILDER – YOUR FRIEND AT THE MOVIES
Do you have a friend you can just look at, understand each other and laugh? Something happened on the fly, there’s no need for a raised eyebrow or pointed stare and you both know exactly […]
SF3 CO-FOUNDER ANGELA BLAKE & 2016 WINNERS ON PROMOTING GRASSROOTS AUSSIE FILMMAKING
“After about a minute your brain kicks and you think, oh wow, and when you start to realise what’s happening it’s a beautiful thing and you’re so engaged.” With the second annual Sydney SmartFone Flick […]
SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR STEFAN POPESCU TALKS SUFF 2016
“It’s a little bit arty, a little bit weirdo, a little bit cult, a little bit horror.” Sydney Underground Film Festival (SUFF) Director Stefan Popescu and the team are gearing up for their 2016 outing […]
SMARTFONE FLICK FEST (SF3) 2016 WRAPS IN SYDNEY
“For $12 a month you can buy an iPhone and put this on the screen.” The second annual SmartFone Flick Fest screened it’s top ten finalists last night at the Chauvel Cinema in Sydney’s Paddington, […]
BEN-HUR
Expectations are a nasty business. The best-selling nineteenth-century novel, based on, of all things, the best-selling book of all time, the Bible, was turned into a stage-play that ran for over two decades, before being […]
WAR DOGS
Did you like Scarface? Or Goodfellas? Or The Wolf of Wall Street? Good, so did the guys who made War Dogs, and they really want you to like it too. The term ‘based on a […]
SUICIDE SQUAD
Animals’ classic hit opens with the line ‘There is a house in New Orleans, they call the rising sun.’ Suicide Squad too opens with the line, and the song, zooming in on of all things […]
EMO THE MUSICAL
Emo The Musical, as its title might suggest, likes to make fun of things. Emos. Public schools. Awkward teenagers. Religious groups. Really, really dark music. They all get a skewing in this quirky, original Australian […]
FEAR ITSELF
A film that goes bump in the night, Fear Itself is an excellent, extensive, feature visual essay on the cogs and spurs that go into making any good horror flick. Presented with deliberately unnerving narration, […]
CHRISTINE
Reviewing a film like Christine presents an endearing conundrum for any critic, here going to the very core of the film. Christine is based on an infamous live-TV event in the 1970’s that occurred on […]
SUNTAN
Switching gears midway through a film isn’t always a bad thing. Kostis (Makis Papadimitriou) arrives at his new home and passing holiday destination for many – a beautiful Greek Island, surviving with 800 residents in […]
FRANK & LOLA
Michael Shannon, leagues ahead of even this exultantly talented cast, nails it again in Matthew Ross’ new romantic thriller. Frank (Michael Shannon) loves Lola (Imogen Poots). Frank is a struggling chef. Lola is a struggling […]
LOUIS THEROUX: MY SCIENTOLOGY MOVIE
What do you do when the group you’re trying to expose, as would be expected, don’t play ball? Make a film to spite them. Louis Theroux’s My Scientology Movie takes a bunch of frustrated documentarians, […]
JASON BOURNE
When The Maltese Falcon became a hit, the studio soon followed with a slew of trailers for similar films with footage from the then recent smash, trading almost purely off nostalgia to plug flicks that so desperately […]
Eleven movies you probably missed this year
Jurassic World. Avengers: Age of Ultron. Furious 7. Minions. These four films soared past the $1 billion dollar mark in 2015, the cream of the crop grossing hundreds of millions for their respective studios. Dozens […]
Focus – When star power can’t shine a light
Focus tries to lift a lot of its game from con-artist cinematic classics like Ocean’s Eleven and The Sting…unfortunately, it still couldn’t convince Glen Falkenstein that it was a decent film. Will Smith can […]
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