Appearing in the next issue of Senses of Cinema: Sarah Watt’s death leaves Australia’s national narrative without one of its most distinctive voices. It also robs its cinema of a wealth of possible images of urban Australia, the kind that would help forge new and much truer mythologies than the outback legends that have so [...]
Showtime developing Animal Kingdom adaptation
December 17th, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Deadline Hollywood reports that Animal Kingdom, which took Australia by storm and landed Jacki Weaver an Academy Award nomination, is being developed into a TV series for U.S. network Showtime: The project, now in development, is a crime drama exploring the tense battle between a criminal family and the police, and the ordinary lives caught [...]
Daniel Craig: writers’ strike ruined Quantum of Solace
December 16th, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In an interview with Time Out London, Daniel Craig is surprisingly forthright about what went wrong with Quantum of Solace: It seems that the script is sometimes an after-thought on huge productions. ‘Yes and you swear that you’ll never get involved with shit like that, and it happens. On “Quantum”, we were fucked. We had [...]
Simon Miraudo’s ten worst films of 2011
December 15th, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A. O. Scott and Manohla Dargis’ year in review
December 15th, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Manohla Dargis in The New York Times: As we know, it’s become ritualistic for critics to whine about the end of the year being crowded with Oscar hopefuls. Oh, pity the poor movie critic forced to watch a new Martin Scorsese movie, a new David Fincher and two from Steven Spielberg in short succession! Yet [...]
Street skiing
December 14th, 2011 By 1 Comment
The Human Centipede II unbanned
December 13th, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Most of the Human Centipede II censorship kerfuffle occurred while I was on holiday so I was unable to post about it here, but I am glad to see that a re-cut version of the banned film has been given the green light by the Classification Review Board: Cinetology can confirm that Monster Pictures, the [...]
Review: Arrietty
December 13th, 2011 By 3 Comments
★★★★ For a studio capable of producing some decidedly adult fare, Studio Ghibli’s latest film is the best kind of kid-friendly: sweet, funny and populated with an army of impossibly cute characters, but also full of heart and possessing a distinctly positive moral outlook.