“Love Of My Life” and Michael Budd’s Love-Of-Cinema.
By his own account, Michael Budd’s debut feature as producer & director, “Love of My Life,” sounds like it was something of a trial by fire in production and distribution. From haunted [...]
Setting the world Alight: DOP Bonnie Elliott on These Final Hours
The heavy sun beats down, the sky burns a deep orange and the heat sears the landscape. So bright is the hot light that the only reprieve is the dark sweaty shadows of indoors. This is what [...]
Born of anarchy, hate and chaos: Shane Abbess on ‘Infini’
Nearly a decade ago, visionary Australian writer/director Shane Abbess came flying out the pearly gates with his super-stylized gothic actioner Gabriel in 2007, which jet-packed the inspired [...]
Matthew Holmes saddles up for ‘The Legend of Ben Hall’
It’s been a decade since the Australian audience has seen the likes of a gritty, no-holds barred western across our dusty, harsh environs in The Proposition (2005). Come 2015, [...]
‘Lead Me Astray’ Tom Danger & Jace Pickard
Harken back to the Australian film industry circa 1970’s-80’s and think of those wild, exploitation films that exploded onto the screen, where it was blood and guts galore and each cut was like a [...]
Trapped Underground with Nicholas Andrew Halls: 54 Days
Deep underground, away from the world, people struggle to survive. The outside world has nothing for them. Their survival depends on each other and their determination to keep going. Sounds [...]
Directing ‘Skin Deep’ with Jon Leahy
‘I am no longer a technician. I am a creative’, Australian director Jon Leahy declares in his debut at the helm for indie drama ‘Skin Deep’, a dual character study of polar opposites [...]
Zak Hilditch on These Final Hours
As a meteor smashes into the North Atlantic. A monstrous wall of fire bears down on the Australian Nation. You have less than 12 hours till total destruction. What would you do? Where would you [...]
