Man up – Any Questions for Ben review

Any Questions for Ben – Starring Josh Lawson, Rachael Taylor and Daniel Henshall. Directed by Rob Sitch. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Any Questions for Ben seeks to solve the very conundrum pondered since the advent of cinema, if not art and human communication itself: what are handsome, wealthy, young men really supposed to do […]

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Interview: Jennifer Maas, director of Wheedle’s Groove and producer of Humpday

Interview: Jennifer Maas, director of Wheedle’s Groove and producer of Humpday. By Simon Miraudo. One of the most exciting films playing at Revelation Perth International Film Festival this year is Wheedle’s Groove, a documentary on Seattle’s hidden history of funk and soul music. Director Jennifer Maas shared with me her inspiration for the doco, how […]

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Cyrus international trailer debut

One of our most anticipated films of 2010 (no, not that one) is Jay and Mark Duplass‘ comedy Cyrus, starring John C. Reilly, Jonah Hill and Marisa Tomei. Reilly plays a divorcee who meets the woman of his dreams (Tomei), and discovers that her son (Hill) may have emerged straight from his nightmares. The pic […]

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Goodie bag – Baghead review

Baghead – Starring Steve Zissis, Ross Partridge and Greta Gerwig. Directed by Jay and Mark Duplass. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. It truly saddens me that the bag-headed villain is one of the least-utilised tropes in horror cinema. Think back to Jason Voorhees’ cinematic debut – he emerged not with a hockey mask, but instead […]

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