We may be nearing the first official casting announcement for Star Wars: Episode VII… and it’s a doozy. Girls star Adam Driver is in final negotiations to play the big bad villain in J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars sequel, THR reports. It’s believed he’s scored the role that both Michael Fassbender and Joel Kinnaman were previously in consideration for. Of course, […]
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Archive | February, 2014
Sandra Bullock to earn “at least $70 million” for ‘Gravity’
February 27, 2014 
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Feeling sorry for Sandra Bullock, who has been largely steamrolled by the Cate Blanchett express this awards season? Yeah, prepare to not feel so bad anymore. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Bullock is expected to collect “at least $70 million” for her work in Gravity. THR’s sources claim she was paid $20 million up front and […]
Continue readingDavid Fincher might direct Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Steve Jobs’ biopic
February 27, 2014 0 Comments
David Fincher is in early talks to direct the Steve Jobs biopic penned by his Social Network screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, Variety reports. The other major player in the Social Network circle of friends, producer Scott Rudin, is also on-board. Sorkin’s script is based on Walter Isaacson’s biography Steve Jobs, but the film is at this point still untitled. The flick will […]
Continue readingAmanda Seyfried takes ‘Ted 2’ from a demoted Mila Kunis
February 25, 2014 0 Comments
Sorry Mila Kunis. Deadline reports Amanda Seyfried has scored the role of Mark Wahlberg’s primary love interest in Ted 2, and, as we know, there can never be more than one major female role in bro-comedies. It seems Kunis will have only a ‘tiny’ part in the sequel, though there is apparently no ill will between writer/director […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – An American in Paris
February 25, 2014 0 Comments
By Jess Lomas February 25, 2014 Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca line. Hey, whatever. It […]
Continue readingTalk Hard – Warwick Thornton, The Darkside, Gravity
February 25, 2014 0 Comments
Quickflix critic Simon Miraudo swaps ghost stories with Aussie filmmaker Warwick Thornton, director of Samson & Delilah and eerie new experiment, The Darkside. We then venture into the great abyss of space for a review of DVD/Blu-ray/streaming release Gravity. Show Notes: Thanks for listening! Please tell your friends to subscribe to us on iTunes and feel free […]
Continue readingHarold Ramis, of ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Stripes’ fame, dies aged 69
February 25, 2014 0 Comments
Actor, writer, director and all-round comedy great Harold Ramis has died following a battle with an autoimmune disease that had kept him from working for the past half-decade. He was 69 years old. Best known for his on-screen performances as Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters and Russell Ziskey in Stripes, he was also an acclaimed screenwriter responsible for the script […]
Continue readingTelevision Revision: Six Feet Under – Season 1
February 25, 2014 1 Comment
By Andrew Williams February 25, 2014 Television Revision is a weekly feature in which our tuned in TV critic trawls through the best the box has to offer, giving you a primer on some of history’s finest shows (and the rest). Now, this is a story all about how… the patriarch of the Fisher clan […]
Continue readingHayao technology – The Wind Rises review
February 25, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks February 25, 2014 “Artists are only creative for ten years,” says the lead character of Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises. Given the Japanese animation legend has been writing and directing for 35 years – his debut was 1979’s The Castle of Cagliostro – that’s a particularly glum career assessment and likely the […]
Continue reading‘Wolf Creek 2’ hunts and kills box office competition
February 24, 2014 0 Comments
Wolf Creek 2 has faced off stern – and equally violent – competition to take the top spot at the local box office. The sequel to the controversial 2005 horror flick claimed $1.70 million on its first weekend, ahead of Lone Survivor‘s opening $1.48 million tally. The Wolf of Wall Street is sitting pretty in third place after […]
Continue readingTalk that talk – The Darkside review
February 24, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo February 23, 2014 When media-watchers accuse the giant, globulous entity that is Australian Cinema of not making pictures the regular punter would be interested in seeing, I don’t think they’re citing films like The Darkside as an example of what they want more of. For 90 minutes, some fine actors sit down […]
Continue reading‘Space Jam’ sequel in the works, maybe
February 24, 2014 0 Comments
A sequel to Space Jam is in the works, eighteen years after it first hit cinemas. Someone call R. Kelly! (On second thought, don’t.) According to Deadline, broadcaster Dick Ebersol’s sons – riddled with nostalgia – are developing the sequel, and reportedly wrangled NBA star LeBron James to take the place of the central human basketballer […]
Continue readingThe top 10 episodes of The Sopranos
February 21, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo February 21, 2014 The Sopranos aired its first episode on January 10, 1999, resulting in a seismic shift of the entertainment landscape. In the fifteen years since its premiere, the perception of Television as Cinema’s shorter, cheaper, trashier little brother has been completely upended, and much of that is thanks to David […]
Continue readingNo country for old man – Nebraska review
February 20, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo February 20, 2014 Alexander Payne is back in prime, prickly form with Nebraska, a marked improvement over his soggy, false-feeling melodrama The Descendants. It gives screen legend Bruce Dern a more-than-welcome opportunity to shine as he nears the end of his storied career, and an even more welcome leading man part to […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’
February 20, 2014 0 Comments
Marvel has finally unveiled the trailer for their great weird hope, Guardians of the Galaxy. In it, a couple of space cops (played, awesomely, by John C. Reilly and Peter Serafinowicz) introduce us to the five intergalactic criminals/heroes who make up this oddball quintet. There’s Star Lord Peter Quill (played with Han Solo-ish charm by FBI […]
Continue readingKate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, Miles Teller & Jamie Bell up for ‘Fantastic Four’
February 20, 2014 0 Comments
Fox is close to setting a cast for their Fantastic Four reboot, Variety reports. Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Miles Teller, and Jamie Bell have reportedly been lined up to play the Marvel superheroes. Mara (House of Cards) has closed a deal to star as Sue Storm (a.k.a. The Invisible Woman), while Miles Teller has been offered the […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: ‘These Final Hours’
February 20, 2014 0 Comments
The apocalypse is so hot right now, especially in Australia, where a bunch of local filmmakers are interpreting the end-of-days in their own understandably grim ways. David Michôd has The Rover coming out soon, and Mad Max: Fury Road will surely hit cinemas some day. Now comes Zak Hilditch’s These Final Hours, documenting, well, the final hours on Earth. […]
Continue readingTalk Hard – John Jarratt, Wolf Creek 2, It’s a Disaster
February 20, 2014 0 Comments
You call that a podcast? THIS is a podcast. We venture down to Wolf Creek and chat to Mick Taylor himself, John Jarratt. That interview is followed by a review of Wolf Creek 2, in Australian cinemas February 20, and a quick look at new DVD release It’s a Disaster. Show Notes: The interviews have […]
Continue readingSequel to Ice Cube & Kevin Hart’s ‘Ride Along’ already in the works
February 19, 2014 0 Comments
It may not have yet arrived on our shores, but Ride Along is the first bona-fide hit of 2014. (It came out before The Lego Movie in the States… which we’re also waiting for.) Ice Cube and ascendant comedian Kevin Hart star in the mismatched buddy comedy, all about a fast-talking security guard shown real police work by his […]
Continue readingBret Easton Ellis working on a ‘Yeezus’ movie for Kanye West
February 19, 2014 0 Comments
Bret Easton Ellis claims he’s writing a feature film based on Kanye West’s latest album, Yeezus. Speaking to Vice, the American Psycho author and screenwriter of The Canyons revealed West’s request. “[Kanye] came and asked me to write the film. I didn’t want to at first. Then I listened to Yeezus. It was early summer last year and I was driving […]
Continue reading‘Skyfall’ cinematographer Roger Deakins won’t be back for ‘Bond 24’
February 19, 2014 0 Comments
Eternal Oscar bridesmaid Roger Deakins has bowed out of shooting the next Bond movie. Deakins broke the news to Kris Tapley of In Contention, at some kind of dinner party for bad-news-breakers. Bond 24 is the rare James Bond sequel to see much of the creative team return from the previous instalment. Not only is star […]
Continue readingTelevision Revision: Eastbound and Down – Season 3
February 19, 2014 1 Comment
By Andrew Williams February 19, 2014 Television Revision is a weekly feature in which our tuned in TV critic trawls through the best the box has to offer, giving you a primer on some of history’s finest shows (and warning you away from the specific episodes – or even seasons! – that might have ruined […]
Continue readingMama drama – Why Stop Now review
February 19, 2014 0 Comments
By Richard Haridy February 19, 2014 Comedy and drama are two elements notoriously hard to successfully blend. Why Stop Now is a classic example of a film that fails to find a cohesive tone, jarringly bouncing between comedy and drama as it rushes towards a disappointingly insincere “happy” ending. Jesse Eisenberg plays Eli, a piano […]
Continue readingRemember Paris – Le Week-End review
February 18, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks February 18, 2014 Getting the jump on the Before franchise’s ‘senior citizen’ edition is Le Week-End, director Roger Michell’s mature side-step from previous works like Notting Hill. As if to further accentuate the similarities to Richard Linklater’s trilogy, Le Week-End even casts beautiful Julie Delpy-lookalike Lindsay Duncan, who stars with Jim Broadbent […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – Ben-Hur
February 18, 2014 2 Comments
By Glenn Dunks February 18, 2014 Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca line. Hey, whatever. It […]
Continue readingReturn of the Mick – Wolf Creek 2 review
February 17, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo February 17, 2014 Greg Mclean‘s original Wolf Creek holds a dubious distinction. It’s one of eight films to have ever received an ‘F’ Cinemascore from disgruntled viewers. That means people walked out of the cinema and, when asked by the fine folk at American market research firm Cinemascore how they wanted to […]
Continue reading’12 Years a Slave’ BAFTA’s Best Film but ‘Gravity’ dominates overall
February 17, 2014 0 Comments
Gravity dominated at the 62nd BAFTA Film Awards, picking up six awards including Best Director for Alfonso Cuarón and, weirdly, Outstanding British Film. (American studio Warner Bros. can thank British producer David Heyman for getting them into that category.) However, it couldn’t topple 12 Years a Slave for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts’ top […]
Continue readingMichael Keaton has been emailing Tim Burton about that ‘Beetlejuice’ sequel
February 17, 2014 0 Comments
For a while there, it seemed a sequel to Tim Burton’s classic black comedy Beetlejuice was a near certainty. Firstly, because Seth Grahame-Smith penned a script for Warner Bros, secondly, because star Michael Keaton was keen to reprise the role of the titular undead menace, and thirdly, because Burton is super-into plundering his old properties at the moment. […]
Continue readingScarlett Johansson’s Black Widow will probably get her own movie
February 17, 2014 0 Comments
Marvel president Kevin Feige has assured Scarlett Johansson fans that Black Widow will likely get her own film soon, so stop bugging him already. Speaking to Total Film (transcribed by Comic Book Movie, which is actually a website), Feige elaborated on Black Widow’s role in the upcoming Captain America sequel The Winter Soldier, as well as The Avengers: Age of […]
Continue readingCurb your historicism – Oh Boy review
February 17, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo February 17, 2014 A German hipster ambles from uncomfortable situation to uncomfortable situation in Jan Ole Gerster’s Oh Boy. Though the black-and-white feature has its fair share of jazzy stings on the soundtrack, what it really needs are the infamous horns from Curb Your Enthusiasm’s theme tune. But then Gerster would have […]
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