Screen Australia has announced $7.5 million in production funding for two feature film projects, four television series and one web series. The slate includes a new comedy feature film starring Jacki Weaver and Jack Thompson called The Chain Breakers, a crime drama series for Network 10 adapted from Michael Robotham’s acclaimed novel The Secrets She…
Hornblower Loyalty & Hornblower Duty
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Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Paul McGann Rated M Score 5/6 Hornblower is given a dangerous mission to deliver an emigre French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Paul McGann Rated M Score 5/6…
The Scorpion King: The Book of Souls
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Director Don Michael Paul Starring Zach McGowan, Peter Mensah, Nathan Jones Rated M Score 0.5/6 The Scorpion King teams up with a female warrior named Tala, who is the sister of The Nubian King. Together they search for a legendary relic known as The Book of Souls, which will allow them to put an end…
Hornblower: Mutiny & Hornblower: Retribution
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Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, David Warner Rated M Score Hornblower: Mutiny 5/6 & Hornblower: Retribution 5.5/6 Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but obviously mentally unstable captain and eventually must mutiny. In Hornblower Retribution Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica…
Replicas — Alice Eve & Keanu Reeves Interview
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Hornblower: The Frogs and The Lobsters
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Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Antony Sher Score M Rated 5.5/6 Lt. Hornblower and his mates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France. The Frogs and the Lobsters is the last of the movies that had its name changed for the US market where it is known as…
Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil
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Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Cherie Lunghi Rated M Score 3.5/6 Lt. Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own. This is another one I liked, partly because its another example of Hornblower’s poor track record early on in his career…
Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant
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Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Denis Lawson Rated PG Score 4/6 While Lt. Hornblower studies for his promotion examination, he is distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew. For those of you keeping track The Examination for Lieutenant is another one of the movies in the series to have…
Queenslanders Recycle 100 Million Containers
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Queensland’s Container Refund Scheme is celebrating the New Year in style by cracking the 100 million returned containers mark. Minister for Environment and the Great Barrier Reef Leeanne Enoch said reaching this milestone in just two months showed just how popular the scheme is and what a big win it is for Queenslanders and the…
Hornblower The Even Chance
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Director Andrew Grieve Starring Ioan Gruffudd, Robert Lindsay, Dorian Healy Rated PG Score 4/6 Horatio Hornblower begins his naval career, but a deadly feud with a despicable mate is causing complications. The eight films cover the events of just three of the ten novels by C. S. Forester Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, Lieutenant Hornblower, and Hornblower…