Production is underway on New Line Cinema’s “Mortal Kombat,” with award-winning Australian commercial filmmaker Simon McQuoid at the helm, marking his feature directorial debut. The explosive action adventure is based on the blockbuster video game franchise, which recently released the most successful video game launch in its history, Mortal Kombat 11. The diverse international cast reflects the ...
Foxtel has announced the launch date for the highly anticipated fantasy series His Dark Materials, which is set to premiere on Tuesday, November 5 at 5.30pm AWST, streaming on Foxtel and screening on FOX SHOWCASE. Based on author Philip Pullman’s award-winning trilogy of the same name, considered a modern masterpiece of imaginative fiction, the series has been picked up for two seasons and feature...
Winter 1968 and showbiz legend Judy Garland arrives in Swinging London to perform in a sell-out run at The Talk of the Town. It is 30 years since she shot to global stardom in THE WIZARD OF OZ, but if her voice has weakened, its dramatic intensity has only grown. As she prepares for the show, battles with management, charms musicians, and reminisces with friends and adoring fans, her wit and warmt...
Emile Hirsch is best known for portraying Chris McCandless in Into the Wild (2007). He has starred in other notable films such as The Girl Next Door (2004), Lords of Dogtown (2005), Speed Racer (2008), Milk (2008), Lone Survivor (2013) and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). This time around hes playing the Dad in the small budget film FREAKS opposite Bruce Dern, Amanda Crew and newcomer and rea...
7-year-old Chloe lives in fear and fascination of the outside world, boarded up and locked inside their home by her paranoid father (Emile Hirsch). He is constantly warning her of the terrible dangers that should befall her if she ever steps outside – a world where ‘Abnormals’ are a constant danger and people are threatening to kill them – or so she believes. Despite her father’s best efforts, Chl...
SBS has announced the inaugural SBS Short Film Festival, premiering exclusively on SBS On Demand from September 13 – 15. The festival will showcase 14 short films, over three days, from emerging Australian creatives. Featured in the 14 shorts listed below are 2 films from three WA film makers Emilia Jolakoska, Miley Tunnecliffe and Hannah Ngo. Emilia produced the dark comedy Molly & Car...
Foxtel has announced the launch date for Watchmen, which is set to premiere on Monday, October 21 from 10am AWST, streaming on Foxtel Now and screening on FOX SHOWCASE. The cast features Oscar winners Regina King, Jeremy Irons and Louis Gosset Jr. and celebrated actors Frances Fisher and Don Johnson, Written and executive produced by Damon Lindelof (Lost, The Leftovers) and directed by Nicole Kass...
The Bad Boys Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) are back together for one last ride in the highly anticipated Bad Boys for Life.
CinefestOZ is over for another year. The 2019 edition was five days and nights of events throughout the southwest that all came together in a big Gala night on Saturday at the Orana Cinemas in Busselton. This was my second year at CinefestOZ and I will say it was definitely just as good, if not better than, the last. The movies in contention for the film prize this year were all top notch. I hones...
This is the final trailer for the upcoming movie JOKER. Director Todd Phillips’ JOKER focuses on the iconic arch nemesis of the Batman franchise. However, this movie is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. It explores Arthur Fleck, powerfully portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix. Fleck is a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for-hir...
As we head towards the last third of 2019, there is a flood of material rushing towards us; new streaming services are being announced and an amazing number of movies are being crammed onto the calendar right up to December. It can be difficult to keep track. If you missed the trailer for BOMBSHELL this weekend, give it a look now. It covers the real-life scandal at America’s Fox News in 2016, whe...
With Disney’s D23 well underway the most exciting thing so far coming out of it is the catalog of whats going to be premiering on Disneys streaming service Disney+. With the service launching in the US on November 12 and in Australia on the 19th its great that we get to see some actual trailers from a handful of the shows and movies that will be on it when it arrives. Just an FYI all the ori...
