By Simon Miraudo May 1, 2013 Xavier Samuel is that rare breed of Australian actor; the kind who regularly returns to Oz despite a burgeoning film career abroad. He won an MTV Movie Award for his villainous performance in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, but in 2012 he came back to our shores for local productions Bait 3D and A Few Best Men. He […]
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Interview: Pablo Larrain (No)
April 18, 2013 
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By Simon Miraudo April 18, 2013 Pablo Larrain is over it. After three consecutive films detailing life under General Augusto Pinochet in his home country of Chile, he is eager to tackle a different subject. Thankfully, his unofficial trilogy of darkly comic social commentaries is capped with his best feature yet: No. It follows the […]
Read moreInterview: Jonathan Levine (Warm Bodies)
April 10, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo April 10, 2013 Jonathan Levine‘s Warm Bodies is a romantic comedy set in a world in which humanity has been lost and monsters roam the streets. So too, you might say, is Valentine’s Day, New Year’s Eve, He’s Just Not That Into You, and anything starring Kate Hudson. And you’d be right. But […]
Read moreInterview: Mike Birbiglia (Sleepwalk With Me)
April 9, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo April 10, 2013 Sleepwalk With Me is a sweet-natured and astutely observed comedy about a struggling stand-up with an increasingly dangerous somnambulation problem. I want to say Australian audiences have had to endure a long, cruel wait for it to arrive on our shores, but the fact is it was only released […]
Read moreInterview: Julia Loktev (The Loneliest Planet)
April 8, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo April 8, 2013 Writer-director Julia Loktev warns that her film The Loneliest Planet is a “dangerous” date movie. In it, an engaged couple played by Hani Furstenberg and Gael Garcia Bernal roam Georgia’s picturesque Caucasus Mountains. Though madly in love one another, they are confronted with a life-threatening situation that completely changes […]
Read moreInterview: Adrianne Palicki (G.I. Joe: Retaliation)
March 26, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo March 26, 2013 Adrianne Palicki is practically the lone female in all of G.I. Joe: Retaliation; required to hold her own in scenes opposite Dwayne Johnson, Bruce Willis, and a bunch of ninjas. Of course, anyone who was a fan of her stint as the fiery Tyra Collette on Friday Night Lights knows […]
Read moreInterview: Jon M. Chu (G.I. Joe: Retaliation)
March 26, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo March 26, 2013 Jon M. Chu’s directorial credentials didn’t necessarily suggest he’d be the best director for G.I. Joe: Retaliation. We suspect it was his enthusiasm for the Hasbro universe that got him the gig. And good thing too: the resulting product is a lot of fun. Having cut his teeth on […]
Read moreInterview: Michael Biehn (The Victim)
March 19, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo March 19, 2013 Michael Biehn – formerly Kyle Reese in The Terminator and Corporal Hicks in Aliens – steps behind the camera for The Victim, an ultra-trashy, Grindhouse-inspired horror flick with low morals, short skirts, and a genuinely nifty twist ending. Shot in less than 12 days (and only put into production because the […]
Read moreInterview: Ronan Keating (Goddess)
March 13, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo March 13, 2013 Ronan Keating is one of the highest selling recording artists of all time, thanks to his stint in the beloved troupe Boyzone, as well as his own ultra-successful solo career. Yet, over the past 12 years, he’s simultaneously lived the life of the struggling actor, losing out roles in […]
Read moreInterview: Damon Gameau (Save Your Legs)
February 26, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo February 26, 2013 Boyd Hicklin‘s cricket comedy Save Your Legs sees a bunch of Aussie underdogs embark on their first international tour in India. In it, Damon Gameau (Balibo, Howzat) shares the screen with Stephen Curry and screenwriter Brendan Cowell; all three playing developmentally arrested man-children who wouldn’t feel out of place […]
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