Whilst people tend to die in the horror genre, the film franchises themselves seem to exhibit Frankenstein-like qualities, stumbling on endlessly, lurching forward without feeling, cold and unstoppable. Rob Zombie’s remake of John Carpenter’s classic Halloween is definitely one of these, an unimaginative tenth iteration of the series. It’s a real slasher affair with psychopath […]
I must say that I didn’t have high hopes for Hot Rod, the latest in a patchy series of comedies made over the years by alumni from the long-running Saturday Night Live television show (think Wayne’s World and The Coneheads). SNL has been running for thirty years and has seen some of America’s finest comedians […]
The poster for Death Proof makes two claims: that this is Quentin Tarantino’s fifth film, and that it will make you want to go back to the cinema. The first of these assertions is confirmed within moments of the opening, and the film is stamped with Tarantino’s hyperactive and deliciously delinquent style – this time […]
Angels come in all shapes and sizes. There’s the invisible type that perhaps sits on our shoulder, watching over us, making us look twice before crossing that busy road.
Richard Roxburgh read Romulus, My Father in one sitting and knew that he wanted to make a film of the book.
It seems highly appropriate that Australian film director Geoffrey Wright is seated in the middle of a bright red sofa. Let’s face it, he likes blood.
In the summer of 2003, writer and director Douglas McGrath called studio boss Bingham Ray. He told Ray that he wanted to send over a new film script about Truman Capote.
“I grew up in the Blue Mountains and my cousins – a whole truckload of them - lived in Merrylands near Parramatta,”
What do you do when you’re fresh out of acting school and can’t get a lead role in a feature film?
When director Marc Evans first read Angela Pell’s script for the film Snow Cake, he didn’t really notice the references to disability and autism.
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