Stan Lee, the powerhouse behind the Marvel Comics empire, will return to Australia for the Supanova Comic Con & Gaming Expo in Brisbane, November 10-12. From his humble beginnings as a publishing assistant in 1939, Stan achieved legendary status for his work as a comic book writer, editor, film producer and publisher, and most notably for leading the expansion of the Marvel Comics we know tod...
BLADE RUNNER 2049 is coming up quick, fellow replicants. It will be in Australia in early October. The new movie is set 30 years after the original and to help us work out what happened during those intervening years, Denis Villenueve, 2049’s director, has gestured hypnotically and persuaded three moviemakers to create short films that explain the events leading to 2049. First to emerge is 2036: ...
The Upside Down is heading downunder to turn us inside out with excitement now that Millie Bobby Brown, who plays Eleven on the Netflix series Stranger Things, has confirmed what her fans had been hoping for; that she’s finally making it to Australia. After film commitments postponed her visit from earlier in the year. Millie will be attending the Supanova Comic Con & Gaming Expos in Brisbane,...
The first trailer for RED SPARROW has just landed online based on the book written by Jason Matthews, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative which came out in 2013. Dominika Egorova (Jennifer Lawrence) is drafted against her will to become a “sparrow,” a trained seductress in the Russian security service. Dominika learns to use her body as a weapon, but struggles to maint...
Matt Damon, the star of the Bourne movies is an actor who likes to try his hand at different things, but interestingly, despite having comic moments in a number of films, as well as a recurring guest role in the last two seasons of 30 Rock, he has made very few straight-down-the-line comedies. DOWNSIZING is a comedy. However, it’s also made by Alexander Payne (SIDEWAYS,THE DESCENDANTS) and it’s a...
From the director of Welcome to the South (LIFF11) and Welcome to the North (LIFF12), comes the hilarious new comedy Messy Christmas. Set on the small island of Porto Buio, the traditional live Christmas Nativity scene might not go ahead because the baby who’s always played Jesus has grown up and no new babies have been born on the island in years! With this fundamental tradition on the line, newl...
J.J. Abrams the director of STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS in 2015 will complete the sequel trilogy as writer and director of STAR WARS: EPISODE IX. Abrams will co-write the film with Chris Terrio. Abrams was sought out in somewhat controversial circumstances. Colin Trevorrow had the job until he was fired for reasons which have not been made public. Trevorrow who wowed the industry with his work on...
The full length trailer for THE DISASTER ARTIST has just landed online directed and co-produced by James Franco, based on Greg Sestero’s non-fiction book of the same name, the film chronicles the making of Tommy Wiseau’s 2003 cult film The Room. For those who have never heard of The Room is described as the Citizen Kane of bad movies and was released in 2003 starring, written, directed...
An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.
News released today by DC and Warner Bros that Patty Jenkins, director of the original WONDER WOMAN (2017), is now set to direct its sequel WONDER WOMAN 2. In a northern summer season when certain hoped-for blockbusters did less well than expected, WONDER WOMAN swept all before it by taking US$815 million worldwide. Wonder Woman was the DC Extended Universe’s first bona fide hit with no traces of ...
Guillermo del Toro’s new film about a monster, THE SHAPE OF WATER has won the Golden Lion, the top award at the 74th Venice Film Festival. The jury, headed by American actor Annette Bening, chose the film ahead of contenders such as Alexander Payne’s DOWNSIZING and George Clooney’s SUBURBICON. The critical reception for the film has led many to describe the movie as the director’s best since 200...
Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson return as Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele in Fifty Shades Freed, the third chapter based on the worldwide bestselling “Fifty Shades” phenomenon. Expanding upon events set in motion in 2015 and 2017’s blockbuster films that grossed almost $950 million globally, the new installment arrives for Valentine’s Day 2018.
