Category Archives: Australian

ANY QUESTIONS FOR BEN? Rob Sitch interview

by GREG KING. Any Questions For Ben? is the first feature film from the Working Dog team (The Castle, The Dish) in over a decade. As director Rob Sitch, who co-wrote the film with his usual collaborators Santo Cilauro and Tom Gleisner explains, other things just seemed to take priority. All of them have families [...]

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ANY QUESTIONS FOR BEN?

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Rob Sitch Stars: Josh Lawson, Rachael Taylor, Daniel Henshall, Christian Clark, Felicity Ward,Lachy Hulme, Rob Carlton, Tracy Mann, Alan Brough, David james, Ed Kavalee, Chantelle Raleigh, Liliya May, John Howard, Rob Sitch.   This  romantic comedy is the third feature film from the Working Dog team, and their first in [...]

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A FEW BEST MEN

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Stephan Elliott Stars: Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall, Kevin Bishop, Tim Draxl, Laura Brent, Olivia Newton-John, Rebel Wilson, Jonathan Biggins, Steve Le Marquand. In the early 70s Australian filmmakers gave the British public a taste of some uniquely Australian larrikin humour with films like The Adventures Of Barry McKenzie and Barry [...]

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HAPPY FEET TWO

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: George Miller Stars: voices of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Hank Azaria, Alecia (pink) Moore, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, Common, Sofia Vergara, Hugo Weaving, Richard Carter, Magda Szubanski, Anthony La Paglia, Ava Acres, Benjamin Flores jr. George Miller (Mad Max, etc) returns to the snow covered climes of Antarctica and the [...]

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Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jon Hewitt Stars: Hanna Mangan Lawrence, Viva Bianca, Stephen Phillips, Wayne Blair, Eamon Farren. Maverick Australian director Jon Hewitt’s latest drama is a confronting, hard-hitting erotic thriller set in Sydney’s vice ridden King’s Cross red light district. Shay Ryan (newcomer Hanna Mangan Lawrence, from The Square, etc) is a naïve [...]

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YES MADAM, SIR

Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Megan Doneman. Kiran Bedi was the first female police officer in India, and became a controversial figure due to her battles with bureaucracy in a patriarchal society that was shaped by an entrenched system of patronage and corruption. In India women were regarded almost as second class citizens who [...]

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THE TALL MAN

Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Tony Krawitz. The Tall Man is a powerful and important documentary that examines race relations and the treatment of aboriginals in today’s society, and again raises the spectre of police corruption and the controversial deaths in custody issue. Palm Island is an impoverished indigenous community that lies north of [...]

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TOOMELAH

Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Ivan Sen Stars: Daniel Connors, Dean Daley Jones, Christopher Edwards. Ivan Sen (Beneath Clouds and Yellow Fella, etc) is probably our most important indigenous filmmaker. There is something deeply personal and semi-autobiographical about his new film, which is set in Toomelah, the mission community in north-western New South Wales where [...]

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