By Simon Miraudo May 5, 2014 If you’ve been waiting for a movie to come along equating the plight of the prisoner with that of a caged bird or injured animal… then you just haven’t been paying attention. Craig Monahan‘s Healing is only the latest to play that gambit, following in the footsteps of Birdman […]
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The Top 10 Male Performances of 2013
December 10, 2013 
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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 readingStreet shooter – Mystery Road review
October 15, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo October 15, 2013 Cormac McCarthy is yet to set one of his sparse, existential tales in the Australian outback, and he may never need to now Ivan Sen has picked up the burden with Mystery Road. When it was announced he would be making something like a western – and centered around […]
Continue readingPage turner – Tim Winton’s The Turning review
September 3, 2013 2 Comments
By Simon Miraudo September 3, 2013 Anthology films are almost always made up of near-misses, prematurely aborted successes, and absolute abominations that are mercifully euthanised by the strict time-restrictions of the genre. The magical thing about Tim Winton’s The Turning is how consistently good it is. That it occasionally touches greatness makes it miraculous. A […]
Continue readingSoula coaster – Cloud Atlas review
February 27, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo February 27, 2013 Cloud Atlas could have been a freak show. It features a cavalcade of stars – each playing multiple characters – masquerading as members of the opposite sex across six seemingly disconnected storylines that span hundreds of years. Souls recur across lifetimes. Not everyone stays the same race. Tom Hanks appears […]
Continue readingMichael Bay is sick of his actors complaining about Transformers
October 19, 2012 2 Comments
Brace yourselves, because you are about to read something that positions Michael Bay as both reasonable and perhaps even respectable. Earlier this week, Hugo Weaving revealed that he is yet to see any of the Transformers movies in which he provided the voice of Megatron, and that he considered the gig “meaningless.” He is now the […]
Continue readingSee Hugo Weaving as a woman and a Korean man in Cloud Atlas
August 6, 2012 0 Comments
Warner Bros has released images of Hugo Weaving in Lana and Andy Wachowski‘s collaboration with Tom Tykwer, Cloud Atlas, giving us a clear indication of the race and gender swapping being undertaken by the entire cast. These pictures shows Weaving as a female nurse, a Korean man, a decrepit old creep, and a red-head. OK, that last one isn’t […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Cloud Atlas
July 27, 2012 1 Comment
Nearly six-minutes of Lana and Andy Wachowski‘s epic collaboration with Tom Tykwer, Cloud Atlas, has been revealed online, inspiring awe and confusion amongst all who have not read David Mitchell’s sprawling novel of the same name. The picture stars Tom Hanks,Susan Sarandon, Halle Berry, Jim Sturgess, Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent, Hugo Weaving, and many others; each playing multiple characters across several […]
Continue readingPoster Debut: The Hobbit – An Unexpected Journey
July 9, 2012 0 Comments
The poster for Peter Jackson‘s first half of The Hobbit saga – An Unexpected Journey – has bowed at Comic Con (provided for our viewing pleasure by Slashfilm). No sign of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), but we do get to see Gandalf (Ian McKellen) alive and well in the green, green, grass of Middle Earth. But look out behind […]
Continue readingHugo Weaving drives down Ivan Sen’s Mystery Road
June 27, 2012 1 Comment
Hugo Weaving will star in Ivan Sen‘s new thriller Mystery Road alongside Aaron Pedersen, Ryan Kwanten, and Jack Thompson. According to Deadline, Weaving will play a cop “with questionable motives.” When we spoke to Sen late last year, he said this of the screenplay: “It’s a film that’s aimed at a wider audience; it’s a genre film, […]
Continue readingBilly Connolly cast in The Hobbit
February 10, 2012 1 Comment
Actor and comedian Billy Connolly has joined the cast of Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Connolly, best known for his stand up comedy and films such as Mrs Brown and The Man Who Sued God, will play a dwarf warrior named Dain Ironfoot. Jackson’s two-part adaptation of the bestselling J.R.R Tolkien […]
Continue readingWe’ll meet again – Oranges and Sunshine review
October 11, 2011 0 Comments
Oranges and Sunshine – Starring Emily Watson, Hugo Weaving and David Wenham. Directed by Jim Loach. Rated M. By Hilary Simmons. A sad and bizarre true story based on the life of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, Oranges and Sunshine dramatises the organised deportation of British children from 1950 right up until 1970. […]
Continue readingNation’s pride – Captain America: The First Avenger review
July 27, 2011 0 Comments
Captain America: The First Avenger – Starring Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell and Hugo Weaving. Directed by Joe Johnston. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. When it was announced that Marvel Studios would begin production on a Captain America movie, the idea seemed ludicrous. Captain America is the paragon of all things ‘USA’, and in this ultra-cynical […]
Continue readingNew trailer and poster for Captain America reiterate hero’s American-ness
June 24, 2011 3 Comments
If Marvel were at one point concerned that Captain America: The First Avenger would fail to find an audience outside of the U.S. (due to the hero’s nationalistic leanings) there is no evidence of it in their new poster and trailer, which go out of their way to push Cappy’s American-ness (Americanity? Ameriquity?). The new […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Captain America – The First Avenger
March 24, 2011 2 Comments
Holy shrunken Chris Evans! The feature trailer for Marvel’s Captain America – The First Avenger has debuted online. We previously saw Evans as the diminutive wannabe-solider Steve Rogers in the 30-second Superbowl spot, but here we get an idea of how much of the movie he will spend in this smaller frame. Quite a bit, […]
Continue readingFirst (official) look at Captain America!
November 2, 2010 0 Comments
The first official images from Joe Johnston‘s Captain America: The First Avenger have debuted online. They offer us our first glimpse at Chris Evans as legendary Marvel comic hero Steve Rogers/Captain America, as well as Hayley Atwell as his love interest and Hugo Weaving as the villainous Red Skull. The pics first emerged in Empire […]
Continue readingIt’s hideous! – The Wolfman review
June 8, 2010 2 Comments
The Wolfman – Starring Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins and Emily Blunt. Directed by Joe Johnston. Rated MA. Originally published February 11, 2010. By Simon Miraudo. In the past year, we’ve been treated to two major films about werewolves: The Twilight Saga’s New Moon and this, The Wolfman. Never in my wildest dreams did I […]
Continue readingChris Evans IS Captain America
March 22, 2010 2 Comments
Finally. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Chris Evans has accepted the role of Captain America in Marvel’s upcoming feature based on the legendary comic character. Now, if Evans accepted the deal being offered to about 1,000 other actors before him, he is looking at a paycheck of $US300,000 for playing Steve Rogers in The First […]
Continue readingHugo Weaving to star in Captain America
March 12, 2010 0 Comments
Although Marvel Studios are yet to pick the eponymous star of their upcoming feature The First Avenger: Captain America, Hugo Weaving has been tapped to star as the film’s major villain. According to HeatVision, Weaving is in final talks to play the villainous Red Skull, Hitler’s right hand man and the Captain’s archenemy since 1941. […]
Continue readingHugo Weaving still hasn’t seen Transformers
February 16, 2010 1 Comment
source: theage.com This barely qualifies as “news” but I found the following quotes from Hugo Weaving‘s interview with The Age to be quite amusing. Weaving is currently on the promotional circuit talking up his latest picture The Wolfman. When asked about whether or not he will return to voice Megatron in the third Transformers film, […]
Continue readingHooker With A Fist Of (Green And) Gold – The Tender Hook Review
September 18, 2008 0 Comments
The Tender Hook – Starring Hugo Weaving, Rose Byrne and Matthew Le Nevez. Directed by Jonathan Ogilvie. Rated M for violence, drug use and coarse language. 104 mins. You would think that most Australian films were 3 hour dirges told in a foreign language the way audiences avoid seeing them. A successful Australian film is […]
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