Nicholas Cage (Mandy, P I G) returns to cinema screens this week with The Surfer, directed by Lorcan Finnegan (Vivarium). In short, the film is a strange one and you’ll either love it or hate it. Set in Western Australia, starring Nicholas Cage and written and directed by a couple of Irishmen. The film reaches high but doesn’t hit the mark. Lacking authenticity while haphazardly dabbling with them...
South Australian author Colin Thiele published his popular children’s novel Storm Boy in 1964. Since then, it has been made into an audio dramatisation, a stage play and a 1976 award-winning feature film. Now it has been adapted to film for a second time. There is definitely something about this fifty-year-old tale that attracts reimagining and retelling. The story at the centre is set somewhere i...
