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Christmas comes early with the holiday romance Mistletoe Ranch

Christmas comes early with the holiday romance Mistletoe Ranch

Press Releases Oct 13, 2022 4 min read
Articles australian film Christmas Drama Romance The Steve Jaggi Company

PRESS RELEASE MISTLETOE RANCH, the tender, joyous and snow-filled holiday romance from The Steve Jaggi Company, will release in cinemas nationally from November 17, 2022. Starring Mercy Cornwall (Div…

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66th BFI London Film Festival Diary – Day Three – The Whale, Bros, Enys Men

66th BFI London Film Festival Diary – Day Three – The Whale, Bros, Enys Men

Liam Dunn Oct 13, 2022 6 min read
Films Reviews Darren Aronofsky Drama Enys Men Mark Jenkin Nicholas Stoller Review The Whale

On day three, Brendan Fraser returns in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, Billy Eichner brings the gay rom-com into the mainstream with Bros and time is a flat circle in Mark Jenkin’s Enys Men. The Whal…

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MURU Review – A Condemnation of Colonial Overreach That is Uncompromising and Powerful

MURU Review – A Condemnation of Colonial Overreach That is Uncompromising and Powerful

Nadine Whitney Oct 11, 2022 4 min read
Films Reviews Cliff Curtis Drama Jay Ryan Muru New Zealand Review Tearepa Kahi

Muru in Te reo Māori means a punishment or redress against the Māori community. Director Tearepa Kahi’s film does not use the title lightly, in fact the title is meant to be as incendiary as the piece…

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66th BFI London Film Festival Diary – Day Two - Bones and All, Ashkal, Lynch/Oz

66th BFI London Film Festival Diary – Day Two - Bones and All, Ashkal, Lynch/Oz

Liam Dunn Oct 11, 2022 6 min read
Films Reviews David Lynch documentary Drama horror Luca Guadagnino Lynch Oz Review Youseff Chebbi

On the second day of LFF, Luca Guadagnino takes us on a cannibal road trip with Bones and All, the people of Tunisia must face their past in Ashkal and a documentary explores the associations between…

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Pieces Director Martin Wilson and Producer Nicole Ferraro Open Up About Bringing Mental Health Stories to Screen in This Interview

Pieces Director Martin Wilson and Producer Nicole Ferraro Open Up About Bringing Mental Health Stories to Screen in This Interview

Andrew F Peirce Oct 9, 2022 13 min read
Interviews australian film Interview Martin Wilson mental health Nicole Ferraro Perth film Pieces

You might know director Martin Wilson for his debut thriller Great White, but with his latest film Pieces he’s keen to show that he’s not just ‘the guy to make the shark film’. For his sophomore film,…

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Disney+ Series 'Shipwreck Hunters Australia' Reveals 111-Year-Old Wreck Off Western Australia Coast

Disney+ Series 'Shipwreck Hunters Australia' Reveals 111-Year-Old Wreck Off Western Australia Coast

Press Releases Oct 7, 2022 3 min read
Articles Disney+ Western Australian Museum

PRESS RELEASE 111-YEAR-OLD SHIPWRECK DISCOVERED OFF THE COAST OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Glenbank, a 73 metre sailing ship lost during a cyclone in 1911 identified by Shipwreck Hunters Australia The my…

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66th BFI London Film Festival Diary - Day One – Roald Dahl’s Matilda: The Musical, The Eternal Daughter, Corsage

66th BFI London Film Festival Diary - Day One – Roald Dahl’s Matilda: The Musical, The Eternal Daughter, Corsage

Liam Dunn Oct 7, 2022 6 min read
Films Reviews Emma Thompson Joanna Hogg Matilda The Musical Netflix Review Tilda Swinton Vicky Krieps

The first day of LFF2022 finds two women and a young girl on a journey of self-actualization with Roald Dahl’s Matilda: The Musical, Joanna Hogg’s gothic drama The Eternal Daughter, and period drama,…

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Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon Review – Forget What You Know, and You Might Discover Something You Weren’t Expecting

Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon Review – Forget What You Know, and You Might Discover Something You Weren’t Expecting

Nadine Whitney Oct 6, 2022 4 min read
Films Reviews Craig Robinson Drama Jeon Jong-seo Kate Hudson Review

“I'm always drawn to the people that don't neatly fit into the conventional shit that's all around, the system.” – Ana Lily Armipour. Ana Lily Armipour has drawn on her own interstitial e…

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A Taste of Hunger (Smagen af sult) Review – What Should Be a Delicious Meal is Instead Bland Fare

A Taste of Hunger (Smagen af sult) Review – What Should Be a Delicious Meal is Instead Bland Fare

Nadine Whitney Oct 6, 2022 4 min read
Films Reviews Drama Food Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Review

Danish director Christoffer Boe’s film A Taste of Hunger begins with a quote by literary provocateur Kathy Acker; “If you ask me what I want, I’ll tell you. I want everything.” The quote is both decep…

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The Stranger Writer and Director Thomas M. Wright Talks About Trauma, Beards and More in This Interview

The Stranger Writer and Director Thomas M. Wright Talks About Trauma, Beards and More in This Interview

Andrew F Peirce Oct 5, 2022 10 min read
Interviews australian film Interview Joel Edgerton Sean Harris The Stranger Thomas M Wright

Not since the slap-in-the-face arrival of Justin Kurzel with Snowtown has there been an Australian filmmaker who has presented violence on film so viscerally like Thomas M. Wright. I say this knowing…

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How to Thrive Director Duy Huynh Talks About Bringing Mental Health Stories Safely to Screen in This Interview

How to Thrive Director Duy Huynh Talks About Bringing Mental Health Stories Safely to Screen in This Interview

Andrew F Peirce Oct 5, 2022 13 min read
Interviews documentary Duy Huynh How to Thrive Interview mental health

The documentary How to Thrive follows positive psychotherapist Marie McLeod as she supports seven people on a journey to find happiness. At first, the notion of positive psychotherapy suggests trying…

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Haydn Keenan Talks About Ningla-A’Na, Smart St Films and the Excitement of Filmmaking in This Interview

Haydn Keenan Talks About Ningla-A’Na, Smart St Films and the Excitement of Filmmaking in This Interview

Andrew F Peirce Oct 1, 2022 11 min read
Interviews australian film documentary Haydn Keenan Interview

2022 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark protest documentary Ningla-A’Na, Italian-born Alessandro Cavadini’s film about the early days of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra and the fig…

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