Reboots, re-makes and re-imaginings of classic movies–or even better–franchises, are pretty great, right? So imagine the rush we felt when we heard that Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is being considered for rebootment. Owners of the movie rights, Morgan Creek Entertainment Group, has rebranded and is planning on rebooting a number of properties audiences will be familiar with. The Exorcist, which wa...
The Shape of Water recently premiered at Venice Film Festival to a huge amount of buzz and is currently sitting on 97% via Rotten Tomatoes with 64 reviews. Directed by Guillermo del Toro and written by del Toro and Vanessa Taylor. Elisa is a mute, isolated woman who works as a cleaning lady in a hidden, high-security government laboratory in 1962 Baltimore. Her life changes forever when she discov...
Elisa is a mute, isolated woman who works as a cleaning lady in a hidden, high-security government laboratory in 1962 Baltimore. Her life changes forever when she discovers the lab’s classified secret — a mysterious, scaled creature from South America that lives in a water tank. As Elisa develops a unique bond with her new friend, she soon learns that its fate and very survival lies in...
Adventurous and charismatic, Robin Cavendish has his whole life ahead of him when he is paralysed by polio while in Africa and given just months to live. Against all advice, Robin’s wife Diana brings him home from hospital where her devotion and witty determination inspire him to lead a long and fulfilled life. Together they refuse to be limited by expectations, dazzling others with their humour, ...
Author and star of The Room, Greg Sestero, will tour Sydney, Perth and Melbourne between 17-24 November to celebrate the release of James Franco’s critically acclaimed film THE DISASTER ARTIST, based upon Sestero and Tom Bissell’s bestselling memoir on the making of the 2003 cult classic The Room. The Disaster Artist will have its Australian Premiere at Sydney’s Hayden Orphe...
PULSE, the first feature from writer and actor Daniel Monks and Peth director/DOP Stevie Cruz-Martin, has won the Award Audience Award at the Busan International Film Festival in Korea. Created in 2013, the award is given to the film that is most highly rated by festival audiences. $10,000 of the US $20,000 prize is awarded to the director with the remaining prize money used to support the distr...
Jigsaw is quickly coming up to its release the 8th film in the incredibly successful Saw Franchise, this time around we speak to the Spierig Brothers Michael and Peter who directed the film.. you may know them from previous films such as Daybreakers and remarkable Predestination. There’s no spoilers here so enjoy our chat with them. It is the eighth installment in the Saw franchise, picking ...
The exquisite tale of a transgender woman mourning her lost lover from red-hot Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio (Gloria). Santiago bar singer Marina Vidal, played by sensational trans actress Daniela Vega in her screen debut, is headstrong, vivacious, confident and beautiful. After her much older lover, Orlando (Francisco Reyes), dies suddenly, Marina wants to grieve just as anyone would. When me...
Inspired by a true story, WINCHESTER follows firearm heiress Sarah Winchester (portrayed by Academy Award® winner Helen Mirren) who was convinced that she was haunted by the souls killed at the hands of the Winchester repeating rifle. After the sudden deaths of her husband and child, she threw herself into the 24-hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week construction of an enormous mansion designed to keep t...
Daniel Day-Lewis announced earlier this year that he would be retiring from acting after his next film he didn’t give a reason except for his Manager saying “Daniel Day-Lewis will no longer be working as an actor. He is immensely grateful to all of his collaborators and audiences over the many years. This is a private decision and neither he nor his representatives will make any further com...
Set in the glamour of 1950’s post-war London, renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the centre of British fashion, dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites, debutants and dames with the distinct style of The House of Woodcock. Women come and go through Woodcock’s life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration an...
Aussie fans of British comedian, writer and actor Eddie Izzard can get excited right about now because he is due to arrive in the wide, brown land very soon. The actor has been receiving terrific notices for his performance of Bertie the Prince of Wales in Stephen Frears’ VICTORIA & ABDUL. And now he is headed to Australia to star in the movie, THE CALL BACK. The film is Marion Pilowsky’s (“Sl...
