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Top Five: Modern Male Actors | By Ella Wardlaw

Ella Wardlaw — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 05:30:29 +0000

For most actors, the prospects of a lucrative Hollywood career and the lure of superstardom are enough to stick to formula and never stray far from it. The best actors, however, don’t sell tickets solely because of their dashing good looks, or because they’re starring in the latest action epic. No, they sell tickets because they seldom rest on their laurels, challenging themselves with (almost) every film by steering clear [...]

The Death of the Cinematic Experience | By Anders Wotzke

Anders Wotzke — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:27:57 +0000

Once upon a time, I would tell anyone who’d listen that the only way to truly experience a movie is in a cinema, plonked in front of a wall-to-wall screen and encased in a circle of sound. I would tell them, unless they can spot the flaws on the faces of the flawless, they haven’t truly seen a movie. And unless they can feel the bass trembling up their spine, [...]

Top Five: Directors That Changed My Life | By Ella Wardlaw

Ella Wardlaw — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 03:01:59 +0000

While we often remember key scenes or characters from the films we love, there is someone we don’t see on screen that shapes our experience the most: the director. Ron Howard once said, “One of the great things about being a director […] is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition.” Only the ambitionless avoid making mistakes; the directors that aren’t [...]

Hakuna matata for The Lion King 3D | By Katina Vangopoulos

Katina Vangopoulos — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 02:01:54 +0000

The opening cries of “Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba” to a rising sun still sends shivers down the spine almost 20 years after The Lion King’s initial release. Anyone lucky enough to attend a screening during the 2011 release will likely remember the revisit for the ambience as much as the film. Children of a new generation experiencing it for the first time, feeble singing coming from the person in the [...]

MIFF 2011 Diary: Days 13-16 | By Tom Clift

Tom Clift — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 03:29:38 +0000

Furry red monsters. Super-powered Zebra-men. The apocalypse.

No, I haven’t been driven mad by lack of sleep. These are all things that made appearances in the films I’ve been watching over the last four days, along with a butt-naked warlord, a disgraced New York politician and about half the population of Earth. And although the days have begun to blur together as the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) rapidly approaches its [...]

MIFF 2011 Diary: Days 10-12 | By Tom Clift

Tom Clift — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 07:20:51 +0000

Exhausting. That’s the word I’d use to describe my weekend. At this point I’m roughly half-way through my Melbourne International Film Festival experience, with the six festival films I saw over the past two days (five of them in the span of less than twelve hours!) bringing my grand total to an even sixteen overall. So without further adieu, let’s dive in to what I’ve been up to.

When you [...]

MIFF 2011 Diary: Days 5-9 | By Tom Clift

Tom Clift — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 05:20:08 +0000

Judging purely by the quality of the films I have seen, days five through nine at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) have been a marked improvement on my bumpy days one to four. With a combination of intriguing documentaries, moving dramas and one outrageous comedy, in the last five days I have seen six films, almost all of which have managed to live up to my [...]

MIFF 2011 Diary: Days 1-4 | By Tom Clift

Tom Clift — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 22:30:53 +0000

Missed screenings and faulty projectors have ensured that my first few days at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) have gotten off to a bit of a rough start. Yet as I wearily type this at quarter-to-one in the morning, in full awareness that I have to get up in six hours so I can be on time to University, I rest assured in the knowledge that it [...]

Pixar’s BRAVE features a fairytale, a female lead AND a female director! | By Amy Killin

Amy Killin — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:18:51 +0000

After twelve incredible feature films, the movies of Pixar are beloved the world over for their dazzling animation, heart-warming stories and their perseverant heroes; not once, however, has Pixar told a story with a female lead character or called upon the talents of a female director to call the shots…until now. Upon the release of promotional screenshots, all eyes have been captured by Pixar once again, this [...]

2011 Academy Award Predictions: The King’s Social Network | By Anders Wotzke

Anders Wotzke — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 06:14:27 +0000

For film journalists and bloggers, the year 2010 doesn’t really come to an end until the night of February 27^th in the US — or the morning of February 28^th in Australia — where anybody who’s somebody in Hollywood will be seen walking the red carpet for the 83^rd Academy Awards. Usually, though, the winners are dictated by the dozen or so award ceremonies that preceded the Oscars, which makes [...]