By Richard Haridy July 23, 2014 Pompeii is what some critics will label a “guilty pleasure.” It’s trash. Unadulterated, cliché-ridden junk that is also simply damn fun to watch. I tend to rail against the term “guilty pleasure” as one should never feel guilty about enjoying something. Pompeii is a grand B-grade mash up of […]
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Teaser Debut: Pompeii
August 23, 2013 
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A love story set against the back-drop of a well-known historical disaster? Sound familiar? No I’m not talking about Titanic, but rather Pompeii. The teaser for this upcoming epic from director Paul W.S Anderson (aka: the not-so-good director named Paul Anderson) offers up exactly what you expect: Game Of Thrones star Kit Harrington looking wistfully […]
Continue readingWaking nightmare – Sleeping Beauty review
November 22, 2011 0 Comments
Sleeping Beauty – Starring Emily Browning, Rachael Blake and Peter Carroll. Directed by Julia Leigh. Rated MA. Originally published June 8, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. I remember seeing a production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days with my high school drama class. For those unfamiliar with the play, it features a woman trapped in a mound […]
Continue readingEmily Browning joins Michael Cera in Magic, Magic
October 28, 2011 0 Comments
Australia’s own Emily Browning (Sucker Punch, Sleeping Beauty) is set to join Michael Cera in Sebastián Silva’s upcoming indie thriller Magic, Magic. According to FilmInk, Browning has scored the lead role of a young woman who goes on vacation with friends to a remote Chilean village and slowly begins to lose her mental faculties. It was […]
Continue readingSydney Film Festival – Interview: Rachael Blake (Sleeping Beauty)
June 15, 2011 1 Comment
Interview: Rachael Blake (Sleeping Beauty). By Simon Miraudo. Sleeping Beauty is set to become one of the most talked about movies of 2011. Julia Leigh’s first feature film made its premiere at Cannes, where it played in competition beside the likes of Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life and Lars von Trier’s Melancholia. It has […]
Continue readingSydney Film Festival – Sleeping Beauty review
June 8, 2011 4 Comments
Sleeping Beauty – Starring Emily Browning, Rachael Blake and Peter Carroll. Directed by Julia Leigh. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Sleeping Beauty makes its Australian debut at the Sydney Film Festival on Friday June 10. It also screens on Saturday June 11. I remember seeing a production of Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days with my high […]
Continue readingPoster Debut: Sleeping Beauty
April 29, 2011 0 Comments
The sensual new poster for Julia Leigh’s Cannes-bound Aussie drama Sleeping Beauty has debuted online. Transmission brought it to our attention via Twitter. (Haven’t you heard? Everyone’s doing it that way now.) Sleeping Beauty stars Emily Browning as a young prostitute who submits herself to the ‘Sleeping Beauty Chamber’, in which her clients can do to […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Sleeping Beauty
April 15, 2011 3 Comments
The trailer for Australian novelist-turned-director Julia Leigh’s Cannes-approved debut Sleeping Beauty has landed online. It stars Emily Browning as a young prostitute who submits herself to the ‘Sleeping Beauty Chamber’, in which her clients can do to her as they please while she sleeps. As you would expect for a film with this title – […]
Continue readingToo weird to live and too rare to die – Sucker Punch review
April 7, 2011 4 Comments
Sucker Punch – Starring Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish and Oscar Isaac. Directed by Zack Snyder. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Sucker Punch is a Frankenstein’s monster of a movie; a cinematic abomination and a sin against nature. It is a one-legged, six-eyed, many-tentacled mutant that has seemingly slipped out of the crevasses of writer/director Zack […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Sucker Punch
November 4, 2010 0 Comments
The first theatrical trailer for Zack Snyder‘s Sucker Punch has debuted online. It offers us our first proper glimpse at the film’s plot (we had previously assumed it would merely be a montage of a teenage boy’s wildest fantasies). The film stars Australia’s own Emily Browning as Babydoll, a young girl who uses her imagination […]
Continue readingA handy guide to the Dragon Tattoo casting
August 2, 2010 0 Comments
What once seemed like an intensive search for an actress is quickly turning into a game of celebrity heads. Nearly every ingénue in the world is being considered for the role of cyberpunk Lisbeth Salander in David Fincher‘s remake of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (she was played by Noomi Rapace in the Swedish […]
Continue readingDaniel Craig cast in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
July 28, 2010 0 Comments
Daniel Craig has been cast in the lead (although not title) role in David Fincher‘s upcoming American remake of the Swedish film The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. As first reported by Deadline (and later confirmed by Sony Pictures) Craig will star as investigative journalist Mikael Blomkivst. Fincher has also confirmed that his remake will […]
Continue readingSucker Punch teaser trailer debut
July 27, 2010 0 Comments
The teaser trailer for Zack Snyder‘s nutty action flick Sucker Punch has debuted online. And yes, much of it is in slow motion. As we’ve discussed previously, the film stars Emily Browning as Babydoll, a young woman who uses her imagination to escape from the mental institution in which she is confined. Abbie Cornish, Jamie […]
Continue readingSucker Punch character posters debut!
July 23, 2010 0 Comments
Warner Bros have unveiled a bunch of character posters from Zack Snyder‘s Sucker Punch, an action epic that he describes as “‘Alice in Wonderland’ with machine guns“. The film stars Australia’s own Emily Browning as Babydoll, a young girl who uses her imagination to escape from the mental institution in which she is confined. Abbie […]
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