Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation

Director Genndy Tartakovsky Starring Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez Rated PG Score 4/6 The monster family embarks on a vacation on a luxury monster cruise ship so Drac can take a summer vacation from providing everyone else’s vacation at the hotel. It’s smooth sailing for Drac’s Pack as the monsters indulge in all of…

Screenwest Receives $7 Million Grant

The McGowan Government has confirmed its support for Western Australia’s booming screen industry, with the presentation of a $7 million Lotterywest grant to Screenwest. The funding will further boost the screen sector in WA, which is currently the nation’s busiest filmmaking State for Australian film and television production. Culture and the Arts Minister David Templeman…

Jack Bannon to Star in Drama Series Pennyworth

Jack Bannon has been cast in the lead role of Alfred Pennyworth in the upcoming EPIX drama series “Pennyworth,” from Warner Horizon Scripted Television and based on the characters from DC while Ben Aldridge has been cast in the series regular role of Thomas Wayne. The 10-episode, one-hour drama series is based on DC characters…

BBC One and Netflix to Co-Produce Dracula Mini-Series

BBC One has commissioned Dracula from the co-creators of multi-award-winning hit BBC drama Sherlock. It will be produced by Hartswood Films and is a co-production between BBC One and Netflix. The 3×90’ mini-series is written and created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss and inspired by Bram Stoker’s classic novel. Three feature length episodes will…

Australia’s Oldest Motor Museum: York Motor Museum

The oldest motor museum in Australia flourishes in the heart of the Avon Valley, attracting motor enthusiasts from around the world. Western Australian Culture and the Arts Minister David Templeman recently visited the York Motor Museum, which showcases more than 100 years of global motoring history. “The York Motor Museum is a key regional tourist…

Tilda Cobham-Hervey & Danielle Macdonald to star in Helen Reddy Biopic

Screen Australia, Goalpost Pictures and Cowlick Entertainment have announced that, Tilda Cobham-Hervey (Hotel Mumbai) and Danielle Macdonald (PattiCake$), will headline the major new Australian feature film I Am Woman the story of Australian singing superstar Helen Reddy, which begins filming next month in Sydney. Produced by Goalpost Pictures’ Rosemary Blight (Top End Wedding, The Sapphires),…

Antarctic Drama coming to Television Screens

The first television drama series set at an Australian Antarctic research station will be developed this summer as part of the Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship. Leading TV screenwriter Jane Allen (Cleverman, Janet King, Wentworth, Love Child) and award-winning novelist Dr Jesse Blackadder (Sixty Seconds, Chasing the Light) have been jointly awarded the 2018 Fellowship. During…

The Opposition

Director Hollie Fifer Rated PG Score 6/6 An indigenous community in Papua New Guinea is forced to fight back before they are cruelly evicted from their land in favour of a five-star tourist hotel. I know this is not the kind of subject matter to making jokes with connections to other, and maybe if you…

To Sir, with Love II

Director Peter Bogdanovich Starring Sidney Poitier, Christian Payton, Dana Eskelson Rated PG Score 5/6 After thirty years teaching in London, Mark Thackeray retires and returns to Chicago. There, however, the challenge of reaching kids in an inner-city school proves to be too much to resist. Considering To Sir, with Love II was the second in…

40 Years of Helicopter Rescue Service in Queensland

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has praised RACQ LifeFlight for 40 years of service to the Queensland community, describing the organisation as ‘one of our great institutions’. Speaking at a function to celebrate the launch of the anniversary, and to mark 25 years of RACQ sponsorship, the Premier said LifeFlight provided one of Queensland’s most important services.…

Why Slavery? Season on BBC

The BBC has today announced a series of powerful films about slavery in the modern age for the Why Slavery? season. Timed for International Anti-Slavery day on 18 October, and in collaboration with The Open University, the BBC has commissioned and produced six new films for BBC Two, BBC Four and BBC iPlayer and has…

The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell

Starring Mick Ignis, Adam Mayfield, Christine H. McConnell, Michael Oosterom & Colleen Smith Rated M Score 5.5/6 Wickedly talented baker and artist Christine McConnell fills her home with haunting confections, creepy crafts — and wildly inappropriate creatures. Yes, I am a fan of cooking shows and I find it very easy to spend an entire…

Varsity Blues – Revisited

Director Brian Robbins Starring James Van Der Beek, Jon Voight & Paul Walker Rated M Score 3/6 A back-up quarterback is chosen to lead a Texas football team to victory after the star quarterback is injured. We have a post revisit on our hands, its been a while since I have last revisited a movie…

Unpaid Work Inequality in Victoria

Victorian women are doing most of the state’s unpaid work, at a cost of more than $205 billion, new data has revealed. Preliminary analysis by Deloitte Access Economics has revealed unpaid work is equivalent to 50 per cent of Victoria’s Gross State Product (GSP) in 2017/18. Victorian Minister for Women Natalie Hutchins explained that the…

To Sir, with Love

Director James Clavell Starring Sidney Poitier, Judy Geeson, Christian Roberts Rated PG Score 5/6 Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London’s East End. I think I may have watched To Sir, with Love a couple of times, but only really thought that…

Blue Planet Live in March 2019

Across a week in March 2019, BBC One will celebrate marine life great and small, as we take the audience on a deep dive into the world’s oceans in Blue Planet Live. Broadcasting live from three different locations across the planet: East Coast, USA; the Bahamas; and Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. “Blue Planet Live will…

BBC Acquires Second Series of Killing Eve

BBC has acquired the second series of the critically acclaimed female-led spy thriller Killing Eve. Series one made its debut on BBC One and as a boxset on BBC Three on BBC iPlayer last month and has become a massive hit with audiences – there have been over 26 million requests for the series so…