Saw a couple of Australian films today (gee, it’s been a few months since I have).
First up I saw Cedar Boys, a film set in Sydney about a Lebanese boy, Tarek, who is looking for more in life than just being a panel beater. One of his friends, Nabil, steals a shitload of ecstasy [...]
Well, I’m spent. That was an experience and a half.
Meat Pie is bad, Ed Wood bad.
So where do I start. How ’bout the plot?
Well Jono (Ed Kavalee) is left in charge of his father’s pie shop, he shuts up shop to ‘make love to’ the ‘mincer’. And in the love throes, he [...]
Too good to even get a local release, Meat Pie (now lazily titled ‘Going Down Under’ for American audiences), the notorious, unreleasable masterpiece from 2005 is now in my pretty little hands.
I’ve had a quick little look and well, the ‘trailor’ (as it is still tagged on YouTube) isn’t enough of a warning.
There [...]
So, Emma Lung’s character is a ghost, right? That’s the twist, right…
The original trailer didn’t give it away.
At least Emma Lung makes good eye candy. She now needs a juicier role.
Had the fortune/misfortune (I still haven’t decided) to watch Prey on Tuesday night during it’s one week showing at the George Cinemas and well with not much more than a thousand dollars box office over the week, it should probably be considered a failure.
There were all sorts of factors for this, one I would put [...]
Geez, I’ve been lazy, I should’ve said this a couple of weeks ago, but I saw the Australian film Two Fists, One Heart. It’s a solid coming of age story revolving around an amateur boxing champ and his relationship with his father/trainer, although it’s not completely successful, it’s still a good film with some [...]
Saw the new Australian film Beautiful yesterday and well, it has ambitions that far outweigh the results, but at least it’s an Australian film that tries for something more than just another ‘life is miserable’ story. That’s not to say that it isn’t one. Ultimately the film fails and will join the long [...]