Matthew McConaughey would seem to have his pick of the litter when it comes to selecting a new project, regardless of whether or not he’d be appropriate for the part. Coming off his Dallas Buyers Club Oscar-win, True Detective Emmy nomination, and upcoming starring role in eventual blockbuster Interstellar, if he wanted to play Shirley Temple, […]
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Matthew McConaughey too big for ‘Magic Mike XXL’?
June 20, 2014 
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Magic Mike was instrumental in salvaging the wreckage of Matthew McConaughey’s career, but now that he’s got his Oscar (and soon, probably an Emmy, thanks to True Detective), will he take his victory lap and reprise the role of singing stripper Dallas in the sequel? The comedian who played DJ Tobias in the first Steven Soderbergh flick, […]
Continue reading‘True Detective’ S2 to feature three leads
May 28, 2014 0 Comments
True Detective show-runner and writer Nic Pizzolatto has shared a new nugget of info concerning the HBO show’s upcoming second season: this time around, expect three leads. The calibre of the stars recruited for S1 – Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson – has encouraged fevered debate over who could (and who should) appear in the […]
Continue readingChristopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’ reveals all – or at least more – in feature trailer
May 19, 2014 0 Comments
The first feature trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar has arrived, expanding on the ambiguous teaser from 2013, though still not giving away much from the feature’s second half (we assume). The picture stars Matthew McConaughey as an engineer recruited for an intergalactic mission through a wormhole to find a new source of food for an […]
Continue readingTelevision Revision: True Detective – Season 1
March 25, 2014 0 Comments
By Andrew Williams March 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… Rust Cohle (Matthew McConaughey) and Marty […]
Continue reading’12 Years a Slave’ takes Best Picture at the 86th Academy Awards
March 4, 2014 0 Comments
12 Years a Slave prevailed over Gravity and American Hustle in what was one of the most hotly contested Oscars in years, walking away with the coveted Best Picture crown in Los Angeles yesterday. The film enjoyed two other victories, winning Best Supporting Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay. First-time film star Lupita Nyong’o collected the […]
Continue readingBody of work – Dallas Buyers Club review
February 12, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo February 12, 2014 Matthew McConaughey is an Academy Award nominated person. This is the bizarre reality we now inhabit, and we can thank Dallas Buyers Club for this temporal-shifting mind-melt. His career revitalisation came in 2011, after he turned down a massive pay check for the sure-to-be-godawful Magnum P.I. movie, and instead […]
Continue readingExcess is the best revenge – The Wolf of Wall Street review
January 22, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo January 22, 2014 True story: my priest phoned midway through the screening of The Wolf of Wall Street, as if he had sensed – rightly – that I had been revelling too giddily in the debauched antics of disgraced stockbroker Jordan Belfort. Turns out he was just calling to confirm something about […]
Continue readingTeaser Debut: Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’
December 16, 2013 0 Comments
The teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar has arrived online, sending the internet into a tizzy, despite it mostly being a teary-eyed Matthew McConaughey driving a ute. Much of the teaser is made up of real-life footage from NASA expeditions, with a voice over from McConaughey lamenting the end of humanity’s willingness to explore the cosmos. Amongst […]
Continue readingThe Wolf of Wall Street may not be delayed after all
October 23, 2013 0 Comments
After weeks of rumours suggesting Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street would be delayed until 2014, sources close to the production tell the L.A. Times it will indeed see release in 2013. Paramount will reportedly distribute the picture on Christmas Day. That is, in the U.S. No word as to when Australian and New […]
Continue readingThe Wolf of Wall Street might be delayed until 2014; will miss Oscar cut-off
September 26, 2013 0 Comments
Martin Scorsese’s upcoming feature The Wolf of Wall Street was meant to be one of the big players at the upcoming Oscar race. Well, not anymore. According to Showbiz411, sources close to the production have confirmed it will not meet its November 2013 release date. The picture will now likely hit cinemas in 2014, making […]
Continue readingMud kicks off the Oscar race
September 23, 2013 0 Comments
Oscar season has officially begun. No, it wasn’t heralded with a parade or sacrificial burning of last year’s victor (though Ben Affleck has been flamed plenty recently for his Batman casting). Rather, it was kicked off in subdued fashion by Roadside Attractions, who became the first distributor to send Academy voters screeners of a movie. […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Dallas Buyers Club
August 29, 2013 0 Comments
We have our first footage of Matthew McConaughey as emaciated AIDS activist Ron Woodroof, here in the trailer for upcoming Academy Award contender Dallas Buyers Club. Woodroof was a would-be cowboy and gambler who, after contracting HIV, started smuggling not-yet approved medicine into the U.S. McConaughey lost 20 kilos to portray the ailing Woodroof; a […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Wolf of Wall Street
June 17, 2013 0 Comments
Leonardo DiCaprio gets his Gatsby on once again in the trailer for Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. Just as Kanye West and Jay-Z’s ‘No Church in the Wild’ scored Baz Luhrmann’s first trailer for The Great Gatsby, ‘Black Skinheads’ from West’s latest album, Yeezus, opens up the latest DiCaprio joint. Based on Jordan […]
Continue readingHopeless romantic – Mud review
June 10, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo June 10, 2013 In Jeff Nichols, America has a champion of the religious and working class. With the schism between the right and left in the U.S. growing ever larger (and dismissive assumptions being made about residents of the red states even here in Australia), his ascent couldn’t have come at a […]
Continue readingNew York Stories – To The Wonder / Evil Dead / Mud
April 23, 2013 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks April 23, 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: Walkouts in Terrence Malick, hoots of gore approval in a […]
Continue readingMatthew McConaughey scores lead role in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar
April 8, 2013 0 Comments
Matthew McConaughey spent the last two years turning down plenty of tripe, instead opting for interesting, small-budget pics such as Bernie, Killer Joe, Magic Mike, and Mud. Much acclaim followed. It’s now paying off for him, big time. According to Deadline – and confirmed by the man himself – McConaughey will star in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming blockbuster Interstellar. The picture marks Nolan’s first […]
Continue readingTrash talk – The Paperboy review
February 26, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo February 26, 2013 Lee Daniels’ Precious was showered with acclaim, yet his follow-up, The Paperboy, has become something of a punch line amongst critics and moviegoers. Sometimes I don’t understand this industry. No one was even peed on in Precious! Despite Gabourey Sidibe’s fine performance in that supposed slice of realist drama, Daniels’ directorial flourishes manipulated the audience – […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Mud
January 18, 2013 0 Comments
Matthew McConaughey’s winning streak looks set to continue into 2013. We’ve even dropped the derogatory nickname McConaugheyhey. He’s earned it! In the trailer for Jeff Nichols’ Mud (which, admittedly, debuted at Cannes last year), he plays a mysterious drifter on the run from the law. Mud also stars Michael Shannon – from Nichols’ previous flicks, Take […]
Continue readingTheir first crime was being stupid – Killer Joe review
November 12, 2012 0 Comments
Killer Joe – Starring Matthew McConaughey, Juno Temple, and Emile Hirsch. Directed by William Friedkin. Rated R. By Simon Miraudo. Their first crime was being stupid. The subjects of Tracy Letts’ play Killer Joe give trailer trash a bad name. They are trailer effluvia; fortunate enough to have taken human form, but lacking all the […]
Continue readingThe smiling assassin – Bernie review
August 14, 2012 0 Comments
Bernie – Starring Jack Black, Shirley MacLaine, and Matthew McConaughey. Directed by Richard Linklater. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Bernie features a series of talking head interviews with the citizens of Carthage, Texas that are so funny, folksy, and fully-realised I was certain they were fictional. After all, reality is rarely a convincing representation of […]
Continue readingTastes like chicken – Killer Joe review
August 3, 2012 0 Comments
Killer Joe – Starring Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, and Juno Temple. Directed by William Friedkin. Originally published June 18, 2012. By Richard Haridy. Killer Joe plays the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 3 and 8, 2012. It does not yet have an Australian release date. This review was first run during the Sydney Film Festival. Killer Joe is a grubby blast of […]
Continue readingBody work – Magic Mike review
July 24, 2012 0 Comments
Magic Mike – Starring Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, and Matthew McConaughey. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. There was once a time when I referred to Channing Tatum as a “human hatstand,” so unimpressed I was with his lumbering screen presence and seeming lack of personality. There was also a time when […]
Continue readingDujardin, Spencer, Malick, and McConaughey now Oscar voters
July 2, 2012 0 Comments
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has extended invites to 176 individuals, granting them voting rights in future Oscar ceremonies. Deadline has the full list of new members, including 2012 winners Jean Dujardin and Octavia Spencer, as well as recent nominees Jonah Hill, Melissa McCarthy, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, and Bérénice Bejo. Industry stalwarts […]
Continue readingMagic Mike headed to Broadway
June 27, 2012 0 Comments
Steve Soderbergh‘s male stripper flick Magic Mike might be headed to the Great White Way. Producer and screenwriter Reid Carolin has told USA Today of plans to turn it into a Broadway show. “[It] would be a different story, more of a romp, more of a fun night out at a club with a story. I’m almost more […]
Continue readingTastes like chicken – Killer Joe review (Sydney Film Festival)
June 18, 2012 0 Comments
Killer Joe – Starring Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, and Juno Temple. Directed by William Friedkin. By Richard Haridy. Killer Joe played the Sydney Film Festival. It does not yet have an Australian release date. Killer Joe is a grubby blast of amoral fun featuring a revelatory turn by Matthew McConaughey as the titular Joe; a […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Magic Mike
April 19, 2012 0 Comments
The moment we’ve all been waiting for has arrived! The trailer for Steven Soderbergh‘s Magic Mike has slid down the stripper pole and into our laps. The film stars Channing Tatum as Mike, and is based on his own experiences as a male stripper prior to becoming a film star. Alex Pettyfer joins him as his protégé, […]
Continue readingMatthew McConaughey returns for The Lincoln Lawyer 2
December 8, 2011 0 Comments
Ladies man and enemy of the shirt Matthew McConaughey is in talks to reprise his role as Mickey Haller in a sequel to the surprise hit The Lincoln Lawyer. The news was revealed by Lionsgate Vice Chairman Michael Burns on CNBC (via Deadline). Known for his lukewarm romantic comedies, McConaughey surprised many with his portrayal […]
Continue readingOlivia Munn joins Steven Soderbergh’s stripper flick
September 1, 2011 1 Comment
So, it seems Steven Soderbergh‘s upcoming stripper flick Magic Mike won’t exclusively feature male beefcake. According to Deadline, Olivia Munn is negotiating a major role in the film. Munn would play Amber, the love interest of Channing Tatum‘s title character. The film is based on Tatum’s real experiences as a young dancer. Previously cast in […]
Continue readingMatthew McConaughey joins Steven Soderbergh’s stripper flick
August 17, 2011 0 Comments
Notorious shirt-hater Matthew McConaughey has joined the cast of Steven Soderbergh‘s stripper flick Magic Mike. According to Variety, McConaughey will play “Dallas, a former exotic dancer who now owns and operates Xquisite, the club where ‘Magic Mike’ works”. As has been previously reported, Channing Tatum – who brought the idea to Soderbergh based on his […]
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