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SLOW HORSES S4 Review: Grungy Spies, Dynamic Suspense
Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, and Kristin Scott Thomas star in the spy series; its latest season debuts Wednesday, September 4, exclusively on Apple TV+.
Friday One Sheet: THE ROOSTER
This dark, moody and minimalist key art from Australian design house Barlow.Agency injects some metaphor and iconography into Mark Leonard Winter's feature film debut, The Rooster. We have featured the design work of Timothy Barlow's company a few years ago for...
Review: MORTAL ENGINES, Crawling Through the Wreckage
Lumbering rather than rolling, Mortal Engines allows plenty of time to become distracted by bountiful, finely-detailed, sprawling scenery as it crawls through the wreckage of Earth, thousands of years after the planet was torn apart by war. There's not much...
The Many Faces Of Hugo Weaving
This week, Antoine Fuqua's The Magnificent Seven has its premier, and with a cast that strong, I had no doubt that one in that group would end up being the focus of this week's quiz. But guess what? I was...
All You Have To Do Is Go To The Loo, Twice, In This Clip For THE MULE
Aussie crime flick The Mule will be available on VOD and iTunes, and in select theaters, on November 21. It is the directorial debut from Tony Mahony and Angus Sampson. Sampson (the Insidious films and 100 Bloody Acres) also wrote the script...
Get Your Fill Of Bums, Gangsters And Cops With A Key Art Premiere And These Stills From THE MULE
As Xlrator Media prepares to release the Aussie thriller The Mule on November 21st in cinemas and on VOD and iTunes we will have lots of goodies to share with you. It's 1983. A naive man with lethal narcotics hidden in...
First Trailer For THE MULE Gets It Right Up In There
It all comes down to a battle of wills in The Mule, the Australian drug comedy written by and starring Leigh Whannell and Angus Sampson with Sampson (who also directs) in the title role as a drug mule with half...
Xlrator Smuggles THE MULE Into The U.S. For Distro
The U.S. rights for the Aussie comedy thriller The Mule have been picked up by Xlrator Media from Entertainment One Films International's newly launched boutique sales arm Séville International. Xlrator will release the film on their 'Macabre' label later this...
SXSW: Take A First Look At Fabulous Poster Art For THE MULE
Though the year is still young, here's one thing we already know about 2014: It's the year we throw out everything we thought we know about Leigh Whannell. It's perfectly understandable that people thought they had the Australian talent figured...
New To Netflix: Time, Terrorism, Wuxia, And Snowboarding
This week's entry of New To Netflix continues with more time travel. Cinema itself is kind of a time machine, so watch as I contort this notion. Transporting us back to a time and place, or at least an idea...
Melbourne 2013 Review: MYSTERY ROAD Is A Beautiful, Repetitive Procedural
Mystery Road, the new Australian film by Ivan Sen that opened the Sydney Film Festival makes the most of its location and recalls films such as No Country For Old Men with its bare-bones harsh reality set against the backdrop of a...
Check The Trailer And Stills For Unique Australian Literary Adaptation THE TURNING
Author Tim Winton's collection of stories The Turning is being lovingly adapted into this haunting, ethereal showcase of Australian darkness and fury. This impressively bold film is part of the Melbourne International Film Festival, and is the very exciting world...
Well Go USA Picks Up MYSTERY ROAD For North America As Director Ivan Sen Prepares His Chinese Sci-fi LOVELAND
Ivan Sen's modern Western Mystery Road opened the Sydney Film Festival this week to early critical acclaim, and following the premiere came news that Well Go USA has picked up North American rights for an early 2014 release. Starring Aaron Pedersen,...
John Noble Joining Hugo Weaving In THE MULE
It was just this past Friday that we first caught wind of The Mule, the Leigh Whannel and Angus Sampson scripted crime thriller to be directed by first timer Tony Mahony with the producer of Chopper also on board. The...
Hugo Weaving Stars In Leigh Whannel's THE MULE
Yeah, let Luc Besson have his drug mule movie. No problem. But the one I really want to see is The Mule, an upcoming Australian effort from the producer of Chopper with first timer Tony Mahony directing from a script...
Counterpoint Review: CLOUD ATLAS (Shrugged)
Where to begin with Cloud Atlas? I admire the chutzpah of such an unusually expensive film experiment, but how far can admiration of ambition go if the result is so tedious? In his review published during the Toronto International Film...
TIFF 2012 Review: CLOUD ATLAS is Bold, Brash, Epic, and Silly
Bold, brash, epic, and silly, Cloud Atlas is the latest of a slew of big budget sci-fi epics that's likely to find far more detractors than fans of its quirky style.Drawn from a popular book many considered to be "unfilmable," the...
Yes, the New CLOUD ATLAS Trailer Looks Amazing, But ...
Set for its first public screening at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, Cloud Atlas is definitely phenomenal from a visual standpoint. The newly-released trailer swirls through settings that range from the 19th Century to the far future with...
Watch The CLOUD ATLAS Trailer In Glorious High Resolution
When word came out that the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer had teamed up to bring David Mitchell's acclaimed novel The Cloud Atlas to the big screen the general reaction was disbelief. It was widely considered unfilmable, for one thing, too...
Witness The Seoul Of The Future In New CLOUD ATLAS Concept Art
The upcoming big screen adaptation of David Mitchell's sprawling, time hopping novel Cloud Atlas has been much in the news over the last year thanks to its high profile cast, directing team and the unusual manner of its creation. The...
