By Simon Miraudo November 19, 2013 The worst part of Adoration was when I returned to my car and had to pay for my parking, realising that the awfulness of the movie actually took a quantifiable toll on my life: 111 minutes, and $8.50. Anne Fontaine‘s adaptation of Doris Lessing’s short story The Grandmothers is […]
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Talk Hard – Xavier Samuel (Drift)
May 1, 2013 
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Little hand says it’s time to rock and roll! We talk to Xavier Samuel – the star of cult horror favourite The Loved Ones and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse – about his new Aussie surf flick Drift. Quickflix critic Simon Miraudo gives his thoughts on that film later in this episode. Vaya con Dios, brah. […]
Continue readingInterview: Xavier Samuel (Drift)
May 1, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo May 1, 2013 Xavier Samuel is that rare breed of Australian actor; the kind who regularly returns to Oz despite a burgeoning film career abroad. He won an MTV Movie Award for his villainous performance in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, but in 2012 he came back to our shores for local productions Bait 3D and A Few Best Men. He […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: Two Mothers
February 18, 2013 0 Comments
The French trailer for the much-talked about Two Mothers has arrived online, giving us a first glimpse at the saucy, Australian-set drama. Based on Doris Lessing’s less-sexily titled novel The Grandmothers, it features Naomi Watts and Robin Wright as two friends who lust over one another’s sons (Xavier Samuel, James Frecheville). In what is perhaps more reminiscent of The Lonely Island‘s “Motherlovers” […]
Continue readingTroubled waters – Bait 3D review
September 19, 2012 0 Comments
Bait 3D – Starring Xavier Samuel, Sharni Vinson, and Julian McMahon. Directed by Kimble Rendall. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. In what kind of a sick world does a shark movie allow the majority of its cast to walk away unchomped? That’d be the world of Kimble Rendall‘s Bait 3D, where almost all genre promises are […]
Continue readingBoysmaids – A Few Best Men review
May 23, 2012 0 Comments
A Few Best Men – Starring Xavier Samuel, Olivia Newton-John, and Rebel Wilson. Directed by Stephan Elliott. Rated MA. By Richard Haridy. A Few Best Men arrives on DVD and Blu-ray May 25, 2012. Here is your poster quote: I don’t hate A Few Best Men. The film is too facile and inconsequential to hate. […]
Continue readingRomance is dead – The Loved Ones review
March 8, 2011 3 Comments
The Loved Ones – Starring Xavier Samuel, Robin McLeavy and Victoria Thaine. Directed by Sean Byrne. Rated MA. Originally published November 2, 2010. By Simon Miraudo. Australia, we need to talk. I’m no psychiatrist, but I think it’s time you and I discussed these … movies you’ve been making. Seriously, what is going on in […]
Continue readingRomance is dead – The Loved Ones review
November 2, 2010 1 Comment
The Loved Ones – Starring Xavier Samuel, Robin McLeavy and Victoria Thaine. Directed by Sean Byrne. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Australia, we need to talk. I’m no psychiatrist, but I think it’s time you and I discussed these … movies you’ve been making. Seriously, what is going on in the imagination of my countrymen […]
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