By Simon Miraudo August 1, 2014 “Smart” movies can be dumb fun (Inception, Shutter Island), and “dumb” movies can be secretly smart (22 Jump Street, Spring Breakers), but movies about time travel… mostly just frustrate. They exist in some sort of netherworld, caught between smartness and dumbness, kind of like this sentence. They require rigorous […]
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Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook loop-de-loop in time-skipping ‘Predestination’ trailer
July 22, 2014 
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The Spierig Brothers – those rascally twins responsible for Aussie genre fare Undead and Daybreakers – are set to debut their new film Predestination at the 2014 Melbourne International Film Festival’s Opening Night Gala. But why wait until then when you can, at least, watch the trailer right now? Starring Ethan Hawke as a “temporal […]
Continue readingThe young and the rest of us – Boyhood review (Sydney Film Festival)
June 7, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo June 7, 2014 Richard Linklater spent 12 years making the bittersweet Boyhood, shooting it piecemeal with actors Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette, as well as newcomers Ellar Coltrane and Linklater’s real-life daughter Lorelei. The elders play the divorced parents, and the youngers their children, lugged around Texas as their mother seeks new […]
Continue readingTrailer: Richard Linklater’s 12-years-in-the-making ‘Boyhood’
April 28, 2014 0 Comments
The trailer for Richard Linklater’s outrageously-ambitious, seemingly-very-moving coming-of-age drama Boyhood has arrived. Shot over 12 years, the picture captured the growth of its two central characters, played by Ellar Coltrane and Linklater’s daughter, Lorelei. Ethan Hawke – Linklater’s Before trilogy collaborator – and Patricia Arquette play their parents. The flick arrives in US cinemas this July, with an Australian release to follow sometime […]
Continue readingThe Top 10 Male Performances of 2013
December 10, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo December 10, 2013 Spoiler alert: James Franco will top this list. Question is, for what? The divisive overachiever appeared in – and I am not sh***ing you – at least 13 movies this past year, not including his stint on The Mindy Project, his Comedy Central Roast, and that Kanye West spoof […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – Before Sunset
June 19, 2013 0 Comments
By Jess Lomas June 19, 2013 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; […]
Continue readingNew York Stories – The Purge / Maniac / Black Rock
June 19, 2013 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks June 19, 2013 There’s a wide world of cinema out there, and Quickflix’s Glenn Dunks is on the ground in New York City bringing you the titles that will soon be seen in Australian cinemas, and eventually available on home entertainment. The Manhattan Report: Horror: it’s everywhere over here. Including the three reviewed below, […]
Continue readingSydney Film Festival – Before Midnight review
June 9, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo June 9, 2013 Lightning just keeps on striking for Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, and Ethan Hawke when it comes to their Before saga; so much so, I’m beginning to suspect them of performing shamanistic rituals in their backyard before embarking on each new instalment. They reunite for the third time in eighteen […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – Before Sunrise
June 5, 2013 0 Comments
By Jess Lomas June 5, 2013 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; […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Before Midnight
April 2, 2013 0 Comments
The trailer for the highly anticipated Before Midnight is finally here, and it confirms what we’ve all be suspecting: that this film is likely to blow us away. The film, directed by Richard Linklater and co-written by Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, picks up nine years after we left Jesse (Hawke) and Celine (Delpy) […]
Continue readingEthan Hawke joins Spierig brothers’ Predestination; shooting begins in April
February 20, 2013 0 Comments
Peter and Michael Spierig will reteam with their Daybreakers star Ethan Hawke for another sci-fi jaunt, Predestination. According to Inside Film, the flick will begin its six-week shoot in April. The picture concerns a retiring “temporal agent” (Hawke) who must recruit his younger self and hunt down the criminal that has evaded capture his entire career. Before you criticise the Spierigs […]
Continue readingHawke and Linklater working on Before Sunset sequel in Greece
September 3, 2012 2 Comments
Ethan Hawke has confirmed to MTV he is developing a Before Sunset sequel in Greece with director Richard Linklater. Hawke told Indiewire in June that the much-anticipated conclusion to the saga that began with Before Sunrise would shoot in the American summer, yet doubts grew as the months passed with no word on development. He has now […]
Continue readingEthan Hawke says the Before Sunset sequel shoots soon
June 15, 2012 1 Comment
Ethan Hawke has confirmed in an interview with Indiewire that a follow-up to Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise and Before Sunset will shoot in the American summer. When asked for location specifics, Hawke admitted, “I’ve gotten into trouble, so I’m sworn to secrecy. The biggest change between this one and the last one is the Internet. The first […]
Continue readingHawke, Delpy and Linklater writing Before Sunset sequel
November 22, 2011 2 Comments
Will we soon get to spend another half-day with Jesse and Celine? Ethan Hawke has talked with Julie Delpy and Richard Linklater about writing a sequel to their classic romantic dramas Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. Speaking to French mag AlloCine (thoughtfully translated by Vulture), Hawke revealed that a new Before flick could be written […]
Continue readingBlood brothers – Daybreakers review
June 17, 2010 0 Comments
Daybreakers – Starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Claudia Karvan. Directed by Peter and Michael Spierig. Rated MA. Originally published February 4, 2010. By Simon Miraudo. Seriously, must every film be about vampires these days? I’m not trying to sound facetious; I’m deadly serious. At this point, I feel as if I have endured every […]
Continue readingBlood brothers – Daybreakers review
February 4, 2010 3 Comments
Daybreakers – Starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe and Claudia Karvan. Directed by Peter and Michael Spierig. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Seriously, must every film be about vampires these days? I’m not trying to sound facetious; I’m being deadly serious. In the past 12 months, I feel as if I have endured every possible interpretation […]
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