Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Brendan Maher Stars: Bindi Irwin, Toby Wallace, Matthew Lillard, John Waters, Sebastian Gregory, Jack Pearson, Nathan Derrick, Chris Haywood. This is the sequel to 2008′s Nim’s Island, which was based on a series of children’s adventure books written by Wendy Orr. In that film Nim was a lonely girl stuck [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Mark Lamprell Stars: Laura Michelle Kelly, Magda Szubanski, Ronan Keating, Pia Miranda, Dustin Clare, Hugo Johnstone-Burt, Tamsin Carroll, Corrine Grant, Cameron Lyon. It’s been a long time between drinks for Australian writer/director Mark Lamprell, whose last film was 2000′s underwhelming drama My Mother Frank. He returns with Goddess, an upbeat [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Boyd Hinklin Stars: Stephen Curry, Brendan Cowell, Damon Gameau, David Lyons, Grant Pino, Darren Gilshenan, Pallavi Sharda, Darshan V Jariwala, Sid Makkar. Most sports movies tend to use the sport as a metaphor for life, and as a way of exploring character, overcoming adversity and beating the odds. So what [...]
by GREG KING At a lavish ceremony held at ACMI this evening, the Australian Film Critics Association presented their annual AFCA FILM AWARDS. The awards were voted for by members of the Australian Film Critics Association. Daniel P Jones (star of Hail), and Genevieve Bailey (director of the documentary I Am Eleven) were amongst many [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Rohan Spong. Every year since 1990 concert pianist Mimi Stern-Wolfe has been holding a concert on December 1 (World AIDS Day) in New York. The Benson AIDS series of concerts aim to commemorate and celebrate the life and music of a number of musicians who died of HIV/AIDS related [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Tony Krawitz Stars: Ewen Leslie, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Marton Cosaks, William Zappa. The first fiction feature film from Tony Krawitz (the documentary The Tall Man, etc), Dead Europe is an adaptation of the 2005 novel by Christos Tsoliakis (The Slap, etc). Krawitz and co-writer Louise Fox have adapted Tsoliakis’s sprawling novel, [...]
by GREG KING The Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival screens in Launceston from THURSDAY 8TH – SUNDAY 11TH NOVEMBER, 2012 In 2012, BOFA plans to showcase over the Thursday 8 to Saturday 10 November, international and Australian feature films/documentaries, short films, cinema related exhibitions (in partnership with Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery), master-classes [...]
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: David Pulbrook Stars: Julia Blake, Firass Dirani, Alan Hopgood. Terrorism comes to the suburbs of Melbourne in this taut, claustrophobic drama that premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival to a mixed reception. Sadiq (Firass Dirani, from Underbelly, etc), a wounded suicide bomber on the run after a synagogue bomb [...]
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