Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby will go into the 3rd AACTA Awards as the movie to beat, but it faces fierce competition from plucky upstart The Rocket. Gatsby, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel of the same name, was awarded 14 gongs by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts, while Kim Mordaunt’s crowd […]
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The Top 10 Australian Films of 2013
December 3, 2013 
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By Simon Miraudo December 3, 2013 December: for avid list-makers, it’s the cinematic equivalent of Thunderdome. (Hundreds of movies go in. Only one comes out.) We’ve spent the past eleven months reviewing 2013’s releases as fairly and thoughtfully as possible, but that veneer of considerate criticism will be dropped in favour of sweet, sweet chart-making. […]
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May 1, 2013 0 Comments
Little hand says it’s time to rock and roll! We talk to Xavier Samuel – the star of cult horror favourite The Loved Ones and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse – about his new Aussie surf flick Drift. Quickflix critic Simon Miraudo gives his thoughts on that film later in this episode. Vaya con Dios, brah. […]
Continue readingInterview: Xavier Samuel (Drift)
May 1, 2013 0 Comments
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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