Director Yoram Gross Starring Barbara Frawley, Joan Bruce, Spike Milligan Rated G Score 6/6 A young girl gets lost in the Australian bush and befriends a kangaroo. For those of you who might be interested, before we get to far into things a little history. Dot and the Kangaroo was originally an 1899 Australian children’s…
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Long Story Short
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Director Josh Lawson Starring Rafe Spall, Zahra Newman & Ronny Chieng Rated M Score 4/6 Teddy wakes up the morning after his wedding to discover that every few minutes he’s jumping forward to the next year of his life. I don’t remember seeing any trailers for Long Story Short, I just kind of stumbled across…
Occupation: Rainfall
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Director Luke Sparke Starring Dan Ewing, Temuera Morrison, Daniel Gillies & Jet Tranter Rated M Score 5/6 Two years after aliens land on Earth, survivors from Sydney, Australia, fight in a desperate war as the number of casualties continue to grow. Okay, perhaps I should have done my homework and rewatched Occupation (Rainfall’s prequel which…
Production Starts on The Red Shoes: Next Step
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The new teen coming-of-age dance drama The Red Shoes: Next Step has commenced production today in Sydney, Australia. From the creators of the family fantasy adventure box-office hit The Legend of the Five, The Red Shoes stars two-time gold medalist ballet dancer Juliet Doherty (High Strung: Free Dance and Driven to Dance) as the lead…
Bad Eggs
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Director Tony Martin Starring Mick Molloy, Bob Franklin, Judith Lucy Rated M Score 5/6 Ben Kinnear and Mike Paddock are police officers working for the Zero Tolerance Unit, a special division of Victoria Police. When they accidentally shoot the corpse of a judge several times each, they are reprimanded but investigate his death, leading to…
High Ground
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Director Stephen Johnson Starring Simon Baker, Jacob Junior Nayinggul, Jack Thompson Rated MA Score 5/6 In a bid to save the last of his family, Gutjuk, a young Aboriginal man, teams up with ex-soldier Travis to track down Baywara, the most dangerous warrior in the Territory, his uncle. It should be noted that High Ground…
Dad and Dave: On Our Selection
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Director George Whaley Starring Leo McKern, Joan Sutherland, Geoffrey Rush Rated G Score 4/6 Tired of local corruption and the harshness of his life a bushman demonstrates the true Aussie spirit and decides to run for parliament. For those of you who might be interested Dad and Dave: On our Selection was made to honor…
The Lighthorsemen
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Director Simon Wincer Starring Jon Blake, Sigrid Thronton & Peter Phelps Rated PG Score 6/6 In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment to break the deadlock. Okay, perhaps it would have been historically relevant if…
The Dry
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Director Robert Connolly Starring Eric Bana Rated MA Score 6/6 Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound – the unsolved death of a teenage girl. I finally got my act together and got out to see The Dry while it is still at…
The Dry Hits $10 Million at the Box Office
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Screen Australia has celebrated the outstanding result for The Dry as it has taken over $10 million at the Australian box office after almost three weeks in release. “We are thrilled with the result for The Dry, it is such a great way to start the year for Australian films and also for our great…