When a high school party goes dangerously off the rails, one teenager finds that revenge is just a computer click away. Darren (Ackland) is the stepbrother of Zack (Russell) Both attend an elite co-ed high school. The stepbrothers have little in common. Darren is an inventive computer geek who is somewhat socially inept. Zack is an A-type personality who lives to dominate others. He is captain of ...
On the brink of winning a seat in the U.S. Senate, ambitious politician David Norris meets beautiful contemporary ballet dancer Elise Sellas —a woman like none he’s ever known. But just as he realizes he’s falling for her, mysterious men conspire to keep the two apart. Do we control our destiny, or do unseen forces manipulate us? David learns he is up against the agents of Fate i...
As the 83rd Annual Academy Awards (or ‘Oscars’) is airing in Australia, we watch the delicately dressed talents of Hollywood collect their well-deserved praise for their efforts in cinema. We pay homage to all the great films of the year. We remember those that astounded us, shocked us, moved us and made us laugh, but what about those who made us cringe, laugh at the wrong times, made ...
Nic Cage is back in another preposterous action flick. For some of his fans, his over the top action roles show Cage at his best. Personally I think it would be hard to top his Cameron Poe in CON AIR, but it looks like the makers of DRIVE ANGRY 3D are giving it a red hot go. The feature was shot in 3D rather than post=converted. Despite the number of 3D films on our screens now, many of the live a...
“In 1941 a mixed group of desperate prisoners broke out of a remote Siberian gulag and made a gruelling overland journey of four thousand miles south to India. This is their story.” One of the best things about the cinematic experience is being shown something you haven’t seen before. It doesn’t have to be jaw-dropping; not every movie has to take us to Pandora. Sometimes i...
Last Friday I had the opportunity to interview the Director to the upcoming film WASTED ON THE YOUNG shot locally in Perth. This sort of experience is all new to me, I’ve done a few phone interviews in the past but sitting opposite is definitely something I really enjoyed and I do hope to do more. Since this was Ben’s first feature film, I could see he was still quite excited, even tho...
In the wake of the huge success of the Walking Dead television series, spawned from the popular comic book by Robert Kirkman, another comic entity has been given the greenlight; Powers. Powers, created by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, follows a unit of homicide detectives who focus on cases involving super-heroes. Powers, originally acquisitioned by Sony Pictures to be a feature fi...
As we gear up for the 2011 Oscars, Australians will be hoping that Nicole Kidman takes home a second Oscar for her powerful role in the movie RABBIT HOLE. The sentimental favourite is Jacki Weaver, nominated in the best supporting actress category. The veteran actress has been an important figure in Australian film and theatre for more than 40 years, however, Weaver didn’t have an internatio...
BAD TEACHER has pretty much crept up on me and this trailer is pretty damn hilarious! BAD TEACHER stars Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel and Justin Timberlake who is still trying to explain to the studio people that hes not an asshole. We don’t have an australian release date as yet but will tell you guys as soon as I find out. Some teachers just don’t give an F. For example, there’s El...
Last night the WA feature film WASTED ON THE YOUNG had its hometown premiere at the Luna Cinema in Leederville; cast, crew, local pollies and perthonalities strode the red carpet on Oxford Street. There had been considerable Internet buzz about the movie and the packed house was eager to see how accurate the international reviews had been. The film has already done an impressive circuit of f...
It has been announced that Warner Brothers will be remaking the 1992 mega cash cow ‘The bodyguard’. Hiring Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer to pen the script and Dan Lin to produce, Warner Brothers will be updating the story for a contemporary audience. ‘The Body Guard’, starring Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston, shot Houston to international pop super stardom with ...
Preacher the comic book series written by Garth Ennis with artwork by Steve Dillon has been the subject of discussion around a film adaptation for some time now. Various rumours have cropped up over recent years of a potential film or TV series to come from the series which ran for 66 regular issues published by Vertigo and ended in 2000. The most recent news has surfaced via a twitter announcemen...
