Rebecca Gibney and Charles Edwards are going back Under the Vines, with Acorn TV and Tvnz co-commissioning a third season of the Perpetual Entertainment and Libertine Pictures series. Production is underway in Nz, with all of the main cast returning, including Sarah Peirse, John Bach, Trae Te Wiki and Simon Mead. The third instalment picks up six months since audiences last saw the Oakley family. Desperate to regain their former standing as the ‘sole’ mutual heirs of Oakley, Daisy and...
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- 10/13/2023
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Acorn TV is going Under the Vines for a third time.
The lighthearted comedy shot in New Zealand is returning for a third season with leads Rebecca Gibney (Wanted, Packed to the Rafters, Halifax: Retribution) and Charles Edwards (Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Crown, Downton Abbey) again attached. You can see a start-of-production shot above.
Also returning are Charles Edwards, Sarah Peirse, John Bach, Trae Te Wiki and Simon Mead.
Synopsis reads: “It’s been a tumultuous six months since we last saw our Oakley family, and much is afoot. Desperate to regain their former standing as the ‘sole’ mutual heirs of Oakley, Daisy and Louis will need to work together to try and oust William in any way they can.”
Erin White is directing Episodes 1-3, with Laurence Wilson on Episodes 4-6. Kelly Lefever, Erin White, Nick Ward, Kathryn Burnett, Harry McNaughton, and Steph Matuku are the writers
Gibney,...
The lighthearted comedy shot in New Zealand is returning for a third season with leads Rebecca Gibney (Wanted, Packed to the Rafters, Halifax: Retribution) and Charles Edwards (Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Crown, Downton Abbey) again attached. You can see a start-of-production shot above.
Also returning are Charles Edwards, Sarah Peirse, John Bach, Trae Te Wiki and Simon Mead.
Synopsis reads: “It’s been a tumultuous six months since we last saw our Oakley family, and much is afoot. Desperate to regain their former standing as the ‘sole’ mutual heirs of Oakley, Daisy and Louis will need to work together to try and oust William in any way they can.”
Erin White is directing Episodes 1-3, with Laurence Wilson on Episodes 4-6. Kelly Lefever, Erin White, Nick Ward, Kathryn Burnett, Harry McNaughton, and Steph Matuku are the writers
Gibney,...
- 10/12/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Competition
Universal Pictures‘ “Jurassic World Dominion” stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard have launched a competition for young U.K. fans of the dino franchise to design a British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) black card. The black card is the card that has the film’s rating and BBFC approval for cinematic screenings.
“This is your moment to put your mark on a piece of film history 65 million years in the making,” Pratt says in a short video released to accompany the competition launch while Howard suggests: “Get as creative as you want.”
As well as seeing their design on the big screen, the winner will also get a goody bag, a framed copy of the black card and the chance to take three people to a special screening of their film. The winning design will be shown before all screenings of “Jurassic World Dominion” which opens in the U.
Universal Pictures‘ “Jurassic World Dominion” stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard have launched a competition for young U.K. fans of the dino franchise to design a British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) black card. The black card is the card that has the film’s rating and BBFC approval for cinematic screenings.
“This is your moment to put your mark on a piece of film history 65 million years in the making,” Pratt says in a short video released to accompany the competition launch while Howard suggests: “Get as creative as you want.”
As well as seeing their design on the big screen, the winner will also get a goody bag, a framed copy of the black card and the chance to take three people to a special screening of their film. The winning design will be shown before all screenings of “Jurassic World Dominion” which opens in the U.
- 3/21/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
Continuing its strong relationship with top-notch Australian drama series, London-based Dcd Rights has acquired for international distribution the anticipated high-end series “Love Me,” starring Hugo Weaving.
The first drama series to enter production for Warner Bros. International Television Production Australia, “Love Me” also marks its first project for Australian SVOD service Binge, launched in May last year by the Foxtel Group.
News of the “Love Me” acquisition comes as Dcd Rights has pre-sold has season two of the “The Secrets She Keeps” to AMC Networks’ streaming service Sundance Now in the U.S. and Canada and BBC One and iPlayer in the U.K. The series is produced by Sydney-based Lingo Pictures Production for Paramount Plus.
Enjoying major production investment from Screen Australia and financed with support from Film Victoria, “Love Me” is now in production.
The six-hour romantic drama turns on how love can appear at the most inconvenient of times,...
The first drama series to enter production for Warner Bros. International Television Production Australia, “Love Me” also marks its first project for Australian SVOD service Binge, launched in May last year by the Foxtel Group.
News of the “Love Me” acquisition comes as Dcd Rights has pre-sold has season two of the “The Secrets She Keeps” to AMC Networks’ streaming service Sundance Now in the U.S. and Canada and BBC One and iPlayer in the U.K. The series is produced by Sydney-based Lingo Pictures Production for Paramount Plus.
Enjoying major production investment from Screen Australia and financed with support from Film Victoria, “Love Me” is now in production.
The six-hour romantic drama turns on how love can appear at the most inconvenient of times,...
- 11/11/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Foxtel has made its first commission specifically for streaming service Binge: six-part drama Love Me from Warner Bros. International Television Production Australia.
Currently shooting across Melbourne and regional Victoria, the adaptation of Swedish series Älska mig looks at modern love experienced by different family members at three distinct times of life.
Leading the cast is Hugo Weaving, acting alongside his co-star in The Tourist, Shalom Brune-Franklin, as well as Bojana Novakovic, Bob Morley, Heather Mitchell, Sarah Peirse, Celia Pacquola, William Lodder, and Mitzi Ruhlmann.
The series marks Warner Bros. International Television Production Australia’s first TV drama production, to be made in association with Aquarius Films. Emma Freeman will direct, while Alison Bell is the lead writer with Leon Ford, Adele Vuko and Blake Ayshford.
Aquarius’ Angie Fielder and Polly Staniford produce, with WB’s Michael Brooks and Hamish Lewis executive producing. Foxtel Group EPs are Brian Walsh, Alison Hurbert-Burns and Lana Greenhalgh.
Currently shooting across Melbourne and regional Victoria, the adaptation of Swedish series Älska mig looks at modern love experienced by different family members at three distinct times of life.
Leading the cast is Hugo Weaving, acting alongside his co-star in The Tourist, Shalom Brune-Franklin, as well as Bojana Novakovic, Bob Morley, Heather Mitchell, Sarah Peirse, Celia Pacquola, William Lodder, and Mitzi Ruhlmann.
The series marks Warner Bros. International Television Production Australia’s first TV drama production, to be made in association with Aquarius Films. Emma Freeman will direct, while Alison Bell is the lead writer with Leon Ford, Adele Vuko and Blake Ayshford.
Aquarius’ Angie Fielder and Polly Staniford produce, with WB’s Michael Brooks and Hamish Lewis executive producing. Foxtel Group EPs are Brian Walsh, Alison Hurbert-Burns and Lana Greenhalgh.
- 8/16/2021
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Hugo Weaving heads the diverse cast of “Love Me,” a romantic drama series that is now in production in Melbourne, Australia.
The show explores modern love as experienced by different family members at different stages of life. It is adapted from the Swedish series “Älska Mig,” created by Josephine Bornebusch.
To be presented as a six-part series with 43-minute episodes, the show is directed by celebrated Australian director Emma Freeman with lead writer Alison Bell, and writers Leon Ford, Adele Vuko and Blake Ayshford.
“Love Me” is a Warner Bros. International Television Production Australia production in association with Aquarius Films for the Foxtel Group’s streaming service Binge. Major production investment came from Screen Australia in association with Film Victoria.
Binge is an SVOD service launched in May last year by Foxtel, the News Corp. Australia and Telstra-owned pay-tv service in Australia. It offers on-demand and live entertainment across the lifestyle,...
The show explores modern love as experienced by different family members at different stages of life. It is adapted from the Swedish series “Älska Mig,” created by Josephine Bornebusch.
To be presented as a six-part series with 43-minute episodes, the show is directed by celebrated Australian director Emma Freeman with lead writer Alison Bell, and writers Leon Ford, Adele Vuko and Blake Ayshford.
“Love Me” is a Warner Bros. International Television Production Australia production in association with Aquarius Films for the Foxtel Group’s streaming service Binge. Major production investment came from Screen Australia in association with Film Victoria.
Binge is an SVOD service launched in May last year by Foxtel, the News Corp. Australia and Telstra-owned pay-tv service in Australia. It offers on-demand and live entertainment across the lifestyle,...
- 8/14/2021
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: AMC Networks streamer Acorn TV has teamed with New Zealand broadcaster Tvnz to commission its latest original — a romantic comedy set on a Kiwi vineyard, led by The Crown star Charles Edwards and Wanted actress Rebecca Gibney.
Libertine Pictures and Eq Media Group will produce six-part series Under The Vines, which follows Edwards and Gibney as two unlikely city slickers who inherit a failing vineyard in rural New Zealand.
Australian TV star Gibney features as Sydney socialite Daisy Munroe, who heads to New Zealand for a vacation at her recently deceased stepfather’s winery, which she intends to sell.
Little does she know that the vineyard has a co-owner: Grumpy UK-born lawyer, Louis Oakley (Edwards), who also travels to New Zealand to escape a spiraling series of unfortunate events in his life.
Despite neither having done a hard days’ work in their lives and both despising each other, Munroe...
Libertine Pictures and Eq Media Group will produce six-part series Under The Vines, which follows Edwards and Gibney as two unlikely city slickers who inherit a failing vineyard in rural New Zealand.
Australian TV star Gibney features as Sydney socialite Daisy Munroe, who heads to New Zealand for a vacation at her recently deceased stepfather’s winery, which she intends to sell.
Little does she know that the vineyard has a co-owner: Grumpy UK-born lawyer, Louis Oakley (Edwards), who also travels to New Zealand to escape a spiraling series of unfortunate events in his life.
Despite neither having done a hard days’ work in their lives and both despising each other, Munroe...
- 12/8/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Rachel Okine.
Angie Fielder and Polly Staniford’s Aquarius Films has stepped up its feature film and TV drama development slate, collaborating with such creatives as Justine Flynn, Del Kathryn Barton and Huna Amweero, Clementine Ford, Anya Beyersdorf, Roger Monk and Rhys Graham.
The production company gained momentum after hiring former eOne and Hopscotch Features executive Rachel Okine in the newly created role of managing director.
Okine joined in March, just as the pandemic struck. After a pause when, she says, Aquarius’ focus on growth switched to survival mode, the development pace picked up.
The Unusual Suspects, a four-part crime caper for Sbs co-funded by Screen Australia starts pre-production next week. A whodunit set in the Filipino domestic worker community in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, it’s scripted by Jessica Redenbach, Roger Monk (Nowhere Boys) and Vonne Patiag (Halal Gurls).
Parent Up, a Korean/Australian kids spy comedy, is in...
Angie Fielder and Polly Staniford’s Aquarius Films has stepped up its feature film and TV drama development slate, collaborating with such creatives as Justine Flynn, Del Kathryn Barton and Huna Amweero, Clementine Ford, Anya Beyersdorf, Roger Monk and Rhys Graham.
The production company gained momentum after hiring former eOne and Hopscotch Features executive Rachel Okine in the newly created role of managing director.
Okine joined in March, just as the pandemic struck. After a pause when, she says, Aquarius’ focus on growth switched to survival mode, the development pace picked up.
The Unusual Suspects, a four-part crime caper for Sbs co-funded by Screen Australia starts pre-production next week. A whodunit set in the Filipino domestic worker community in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, it’s scripted by Jessica Redenbach, Roger Monk (Nowhere Boys) and Vonne Patiag (Halal Gurls).
Parent Up, a Korean/Australian kids spy comedy, is in...
- 8/6/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Guy Pearce and Jeffrey Walker.
Guy Pearce is bemused when asked how he will cope when he makes his feature film directing debut on Poor Boy, a paranormal mystery-drama about a man who inhabits a child’s body.
The actor points to the experience he gained from working in 60 films and TV shows and learning from such legendary directors as Ridley Scott, Christopher Nolan, Curtis Hanson and Todd Haynes.
The qualities he most values are being able to communicate – and staying calm and level-headed.
“I have seen people on sets who are fairly hot-headed and it often doesn’t end well,” Pearce told his close mate Jeffrey Walker, who directed him in Jack Irish, in an Australians in Film webinar today.
Written by Matt Cameron and based on his play of the same name, Poor Boy follows a boy who announces to his family on his seventh birthday that he...
Guy Pearce is bemused when asked how he will cope when he makes his feature film directing debut on Poor Boy, a paranormal mystery-drama about a man who inhabits a child’s body.
The actor points to the experience he gained from working in 60 films and TV shows and learning from such legendary directors as Ridley Scott, Christopher Nolan, Curtis Hanson and Todd Haynes.
The qualities he most values are being able to communicate – and staying calm and level-headed.
“I have seen people on sets who are fairly hot-headed and it often doesn’t end well,” Pearce told his close mate Jeffrey Walker, who directed him in Jack Irish, in an Australians in Film webinar today.
Written by Matt Cameron and based on his play of the same name, Poor Boy follows a boy who announces to his family on his seventh birthday that he...
- 5/27/2020
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Duncan Fellows and Alison Bell.
Fans of ABC TV’s The Letdown who enjoy watching Duncan Fellows as Jeremy, partner and foil of Alison Bell’s oft-stressed Audrey, can look forward to his next series Fam Time.
Fellows is playing John, aka ‘Handy Andy’, second husband of Michala Banas’ Belinda Box, matriarch of a dysfunctional blended family in the Seven Studios’ narrative comedy.
Created by Michael Horrocks and scripted by Erica Harrison and Jack Yabsley, the sitcom features Benson Jack Anthony as Belinda’s son Rylan, Karina Banno as her step-daughter Tahnee, Chloe De Los Santos as her adopted half-Filipino daughter Cherry, Rhonda Burchmore as grandma Viv and Tainui Tukiwaho as handyman Bill.
While everyone else in the family is obsessed with the online world, Handy Andy prefers fixing and inventing things, although he’s not very good at either.
There are some similarities between the two characters. “Neither is...
Fans of ABC TV’s The Letdown who enjoy watching Duncan Fellows as Jeremy, partner and foil of Alison Bell’s oft-stressed Audrey, can look forward to his next series Fam Time.
Fellows is playing John, aka ‘Handy Andy’, second husband of Michala Banas’ Belinda Box, matriarch of a dysfunctional blended family in the Seven Studios’ narrative comedy.
Created by Michael Horrocks and scripted by Erica Harrison and Jack Yabsley, the sitcom features Benson Jack Anthony as Belinda’s son Rylan, Karina Banno as her step-daughter Tahnee, Chloe De Los Santos as her adopted half-Filipino daughter Cherry, Rhonda Burchmore as grandma Viv and Tainui Tukiwaho as handyman Bill.
While everyone else in the family is obsessed with the online world, Handy Andy prefers fixing and inventing things, although he’s not very good at either.
There are some similarities between the two characters. “Neither is...
- 6/16/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Guy Pearce in ‘Jack Irish.’
Aquarius Films’ Angie Fielder and Polly Staniford have taken over as the producers of Guy Pearce’s directorial debut Poor Boy, in which he will also star.
When Screen Australia announced funding for the project in March Wildheart Films’ Al Clark and Andrena Finlay were listed as the producers.
Written by Matt Cameron and based on his play of the same name, the paranormal mystery-drama follows a boy who announces to his family on his seventh birthday that he is a stranger named Danny – a grown man who died seven years earlier.
Clark, who is still attached as an executive producer, tells If his decision to withdraw as producer was “prompted by a fundamental difference of perception. My involvement has changed to reflect this.”
Staniford tells If: “Angie and I are now producing and Al is still involved as an Ep. Happy to chat further...
Aquarius Films’ Angie Fielder and Polly Staniford have taken over as the producers of Guy Pearce’s directorial debut Poor Boy, in which he will also star.
When Screen Australia announced funding for the project in March Wildheart Films’ Al Clark and Andrena Finlay were listed as the producers.
Written by Matt Cameron and based on his play of the same name, the paranormal mystery-drama follows a boy who announces to his family on his seventh birthday that he is a stranger named Danny – a grown man who died seven years earlier.
Clark, who is still attached as an executive producer, tells If his decision to withdraw as producer was “prompted by a fundamental difference of perception. My involvement has changed to reflect this.”
Staniford tells If: “Angie and I are now producing and Al is still involved as an Ep. Happy to chat further...
- 10/17/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: Poor Boy, the film that will mark Guy Pearce’s directorial debut, is readying for the Toronto Film Festival with cast members and sales agents. The festival takes place this year from Sept. 7 thru Sept. 17. The film, in which Pearce will also star (reprising his stage role), has brought together Frances O'Connor (The Conjuring 2), Richard Roxburgh (Van Helsing), Callan Mulvey (Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice) and Sarah Peirse (The Hobbit). The project is…...
- 9/1/2017
- Deadline
'The Letdown'..
The Letdown was one of six pilots aired last year on the ABC via the broadcaster's and Screen Australia.s Comedy Showroom initiative, and the episode went on to pick up an Aacta Award for Best Screenplay in Television.
Now production is underway on a full six-part series for the ABC and Netflix..
Netflix has international distribution rights, but will also make the series available on its Australian platform after it initially airs on Abctv and iview..
A Giant Dwarf production, created and written by Sarah Scheller and Alison Bell, The Letdown follows a mother.s group thrown together through the circumstance of timing..
"We are thrilled to be working with the ABC and Netflix on a full series of The Letdown. We've learned that making a TV show is actually not unlike motherhood... floods of tears, bursts of love and unhinged hormonal meltdowns - all in the name of comedy,...
The Letdown was one of six pilots aired last year on the ABC via the broadcaster's and Screen Australia.s Comedy Showroom initiative, and the episode went on to pick up an Aacta Award for Best Screenplay in Television.
Now production is underway on a full six-part series for the ABC and Netflix..
Netflix has international distribution rights, but will also make the series available on its Australian platform after it initially airs on Abctv and iview..
A Giant Dwarf production, created and written by Sarah Scheller and Alison Bell, The Letdown follows a mother.s group thrown together through the circumstance of timing..
"We are thrilled to be working with the ABC and Netflix on a full series of The Letdown. We've learned that making a TV show is actually not unlike motherhood... floods of tears, bursts of love and unhinged hormonal meltdowns - all in the name of comedy,...
- 6/16/2017
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Exclusive: La Confidental star will also star in the stage play adaptation.
Guy Pearce is to make his directorial debut with Australian paranormal drama Poor Boy, based on the stage play in which he starred.
The Australian actor, known for roles in La Confidental, Memento and Cannes 2014 title The Rover, will also play the lead in the feature. The cast also includes Frances O’Connor (Mansfield Park, The Missing), Richard Roxburgh (Moulin Rouge!), Callan Mulvey (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice) and Sarah Peirse (The Hobbit).
The story centres on a dead man, a young boy and two families mysteriously linked by synchronous events seven years earlier. Production is planned for Melbourne in 2017.
The screenplay is by Matt Cameron, adapted from his stage play created with Crowded House singer-songwriter Tim Finn and performed by the Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company in 2009.
Producer Al Clark, whose credits include The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert and who...
Guy Pearce is to make his directorial debut with Australian paranormal drama Poor Boy, based on the stage play in which he starred.
The Australian actor, known for roles in La Confidental, Memento and Cannes 2014 title The Rover, will also play the lead in the feature. The cast also includes Frances O’Connor (Mansfield Park, The Missing), Richard Roxburgh (Moulin Rouge!), Callan Mulvey (Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice) and Sarah Peirse (The Hobbit).
The story centres on a dead man, a young boy and two families mysteriously linked by synchronous events seven years earlier. Production is planned for Melbourne in 2017.
The screenplay is by Matt Cameron, adapted from his stage play created with Crowded House singer-songwriter Tim Finn and performed by the Melbourne Theatre Company and Sydney Theatre Company in 2009.
Producer Al Clark, whose credits include The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert and who...
- 5/13/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Heavenly Creatures
Directed by Peter Jackson
Written by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh
1994, New Zealand / Germany
In Heavenly Creatures, Peter Jackson establishes the societal isolation of his protagonists right from the beginning. The movie opens with a 1950s documentary concerning the story’s setting, Christchurch, New Zealand. The area is wholesome and idyllic. People ride their bikes down busy streets. Children play in the local park. Vibrant flowers bloom in the springtime sun. Then, just as the documentary’s narrator begins to proclaim that Christchurch is New Zealand’s finest town, the distant sound of screaming is heard. It swells to a terrifying volume.
Jump to Pauline and Juliet (Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet in their extraordinary debut performances) running through a forest, blood dripping down their legs. The quick cut from picturesque small town to horrific reality serves to give the viewer a feeling of displacement. These young girls...
Directed by Peter Jackson
Written by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh
1994, New Zealand / Germany
In Heavenly Creatures, Peter Jackson establishes the societal isolation of his protagonists right from the beginning. The movie opens with a 1950s documentary concerning the story’s setting, Christchurch, New Zealand. The area is wholesome and idyllic. People ride their bikes down busy streets. Children play in the local park. Vibrant flowers bloom in the springtime sun. Then, just as the documentary’s narrator begins to proclaim that Christchurch is New Zealand’s finest town, the distant sound of screaming is heard. It swells to a terrifying volume.
Jump to Pauline and Juliet (Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet in their extraordinary debut performances) running through a forest, blood dripping down their legs. The quick cut from picturesque small town to horrific reality serves to give the viewer a feeling of displacement. These young girls...
- 7/20/2014
- by Jacob Carter
- SoundOnSight
Bryan Brown and Sam Neill will star in Old School, an ABC series in the vein of the BBC comedy-drama New Tricks. Brown will play Ted, a retired cop, with Neill as Lennie, an ex-crim. The odd couple turn sleuth to solve crimes, unravel scams and earn much-needed dosh.
The cast includes Sarah Peirse as Ted.s feisty, sports-mad wife; Hanna Mangan Lawrence as Lennie.s granddaughter Shannon; Mark Coles-Smith as Jason, the mechanic son of one of Lennie.s prison mates; and Damian Walshe-Howling as a charming opportunist who woos Shannon.
The show was created by Paul Oliver and Steve Wright and will be produced by Matchbox Pictures. Helen Panckhurst and exec produced by Tony Ayres and Penny Chapman.
Production of the eight-part series starts in Sydney in June with the directing chores shared by Gregor Jordan (Two Hands, Buffalo Soldiers), Peter Templeman (Not Suitable For Children) and Oliver.
The cast includes Sarah Peirse as Ted.s feisty, sports-mad wife; Hanna Mangan Lawrence as Lennie.s granddaughter Shannon; Mark Coles-Smith as Jason, the mechanic son of one of Lennie.s prison mates; and Damian Walshe-Howling as a charming opportunist who woos Shannon.
The show was created by Paul Oliver and Steve Wright and will be produced by Matchbox Pictures. Helen Panckhurst and exec produced by Tony Ayres and Penny Chapman.
Production of the eight-part series starts in Sydney in June with the directing chores shared by Gregor Jordan (Two Hands, Buffalo Soldiers), Peter Templeman (Not Suitable For Children) and Oliver.
- 5/30/2013
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
Hitting movie theaters this weekend:
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked - Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol - Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Jared Harris
Young Adult - Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson, Patton Oswalt
Movie of the Week
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
The Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Jared Harris
The Plot: Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson join forces to outwit and bring down their fiercest adversary, Professor Moriarty.
The Buzz: Guy Ritchie’s career has been effectively side-tracked by the Holmes franchise, and I think that’s a good thing. I hope the trend continues. Downey Jr. and Law make for the perfect pair, and though I was disappointed when I learned, months back, that Daniel Day-Lewis had dropped out as Moriarty, I was pleased to...
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked - Justin Long, Matthew Gray Gubler, Jesse McCartney
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol - Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Jared Harris
Young Adult - Charlize Theron, Patrick Wilson, Patton Oswalt
Movie of the Week
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
The Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Jared Harris
The Plot: Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson join forces to outwit and bring down their fiercest adversary, Professor Moriarty.
The Buzz: Guy Ritchie’s career has been effectively side-tracked by the Holmes franchise, and I think that’s a good thing. I hope the trend continues. Downey Jr. and Law make for the perfect pair, and though I was disappointed when I learned, months back, that Daniel Day-Lewis had dropped out as Moriarty, I was pleased to...
- 12/14/2011
- by Aaron Ruffcorn
- The Scorecard Review
With Peter Jackson now the established big-time director of epics, such as Lord of the Rings, King Kong and the upcoming Hobbit films, his 1950s set true crime drama Heavenly Creatures – winner of the Silver Lion at the 1994 Venice Film Festival – feels somehow more intimate and whimsical than ever before. This small town story of two isolated and unhinged teenage girls stars then unknown actresses Kate Winslet and Melanie Lynsky as Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker, who in 1954 brutally murdered Pauline’s mother Honora (Sarah Peirse) after coming to feel that she was the obstacle against their being together forever.
Jackson successfully humanises and even elicits empathy for his naive, escapist protagonists without detracting from the horror of the crime itself, made all the more unpalatable by its basis in reality. The murder, when it comes, is a visceral, upsetting punch in the gut – difficult to watch and heart-breaking as anything.
Jackson successfully humanises and even elicits empathy for his naive, escapist protagonists without detracting from the horror of the crime itself, made all the more unpalatable by its basis in reality. The murder, when it comes, is a visceral, upsetting punch in the gut – difficult to watch and heart-breaking as anything.
- 9/12/2011
- by Robert Beames
- Obsessed with Film
Our Wednesday night series Hit Me With Your Best Shot resumes on May 4th with David Lynch's Eraserhead (see the May & June schedule here), but tonight we bring you A Very Special Episode.
We knew from Twitter that the actress Melanie Lynskey (Win Win) enjoyed this particular series. After our group gaze at Heavenly Creatures (1994), which happened to be her film debut, she sent us the following note with permission to publish it. How great! Melanie is currently in movie theaters as the troubled mom in Win Win but she's got two more films on the way. She's completed work on Eye of the Hurricane co-starring with Campbell Scott (another underrated actor) and Touchback, a sports fantasy starring Kurt Russell.
Melanie takes it from here...
"So excited you did a Hit Me With Your Best Shot on "Heavenly Creatures". I loved reading what everyone had to say. I don't...
We knew from Twitter that the actress Melanie Lynskey (Win Win) enjoyed this particular series. After our group gaze at Heavenly Creatures (1994), which happened to be her film debut, she sent us the following note with permission to publish it. How great! Melanie is currently in movie theaters as the troubled mom in Win Win but she's got two more films on the way. She's completed work on Eye of the Hurricane co-starring with Campbell Scott (another underrated actor) and Touchback, a sports fantasy starring Kurt Russell.
Melanie takes it from here...
"So excited you did a Hit Me With Your Best Shot on "Heavenly Creatures". I loved reading what everyone had to say. I don't...
- 4/27/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Seldom has a movie delineated adult melancholy or adolescent anxiety with such acute tenderness as in Christine Jeffs' "Rain", a film from New Zealand based on Kirsty Gunn's 1994 debut novel. This is a film where, on one level, little happens. Yet Jeffs' camera is alert to the subtlest nuances of language, gesture and behavior. "Rain" is a master work in miniature, an unsentimental yet not unsympathetic portrait of a family falling apart in slow motion.
"Rain" could evolve into a must-see in North American art houses. Its major impediment is the unfortunate number of films, both past and present, with the exact same title. While "Rain" is based on a novel by the same name, filmmakers should take more care to select distinctive titles that will eliminate audience confusion.
Anyway, this "Rain" takes place in 1972 on a languid, sparsely populated bay on the east coast of New Zealand, where a family rents a seaside cottage for the long, hot summer. While the film's narrator is the family's 13-year-old daughter Janey (Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki), in the early throes of exploring the reach and strength of her sexuality, the point of view is not entirely hers.
Jeffs, who adapted Gunn's story, observes things Janey cannot always see or fully understand: the dissolution of her parents' marriage into booze and late-night parties, her mom's (Sarah Peirse) boredom and her dad's (Alistair Browning) inadequacy in dealing with this and, finally, her mom's attraction to a drifter photographer (Marton Csokas) who invites the family to go fishing on his boat.
Janey's closest and constant companion is her kid brother Jim (Aaron Murphy), a wee lad to whom life at the beach is still fun and games. As one indolent day turns into a boozy night followed by another indolent day with hangovers for the adults and restlessness for the children, life slowly oozes out of the family's core. It's almost imperceptible, but it's there, mostly unspoken, and no one knows how to fix the leak.
This is a film of atmosphere and ominous foreboding. You're never certain where the film is going, which is a refreshing change from most movies, whose road maps are clearly marked in advance.
It is Janey's sexuality that drives the movie. Dismissive of a boy her own age, who comes by to court her in a manner that is almost old-fashioned, she becomes, in a sense, her mom's rival for the affections of the nonchalant drifter. When the film finally reaches its climax, the sense of loss of innocence is profound.
Much credit goes to the actors, who create neither heroes nor villains but flawed, flawed people struggling with emotions that overwhelm them. John Toon's atmospheric cinematography and Paul Maxwell's unhurried editing add to the slow, excruciating build to a tragedy. The only negative is the constant use of rock/pop songs on the soundtrack, which distracts from the mood and wary anticipation of a calamity to come.
RAIN
Fireworks Pictures
Rose Road and Communicado
Credits:
Writer-director Christine Jeffs
Based on the novel by: Kirsty Gunn
Producer: Philippa Campbell
Executive producer: Robin Scholes
Director of photography: John Toon
Music: Neil Finn, Edmund McWilliams
Costume designer: Kirsty Cameron
Editor: Paul Maxwell
Cast:
Janey: Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki
Kate: Sarah Peirse
Cady: Marton Csokas
Ed: Alistair Browning
Jim: Aaron Murphy.
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 92 minutes...
"Rain" could evolve into a must-see in North American art houses. Its major impediment is the unfortunate number of films, both past and present, with the exact same title. While "Rain" is based on a novel by the same name, filmmakers should take more care to select distinctive titles that will eliminate audience confusion.
Anyway, this "Rain" takes place in 1972 on a languid, sparsely populated bay on the east coast of New Zealand, where a family rents a seaside cottage for the long, hot summer. While the film's narrator is the family's 13-year-old daughter Janey (Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki), in the early throes of exploring the reach and strength of her sexuality, the point of view is not entirely hers.
Jeffs, who adapted Gunn's story, observes things Janey cannot always see or fully understand: the dissolution of her parents' marriage into booze and late-night parties, her mom's (Sarah Peirse) boredom and her dad's (Alistair Browning) inadequacy in dealing with this and, finally, her mom's attraction to a drifter photographer (Marton Csokas) who invites the family to go fishing on his boat.
Janey's closest and constant companion is her kid brother Jim (Aaron Murphy), a wee lad to whom life at the beach is still fun and games. As one indolent day turns into a boozy night followed by another indolent day with hangovers for the adults and restlessness for the children, life slowly oozes out of the family's core. It's almost imperceptible, but it's there, mostly unspoken, and no one knows how to fix the leak.
This is a film of atmosphere and ominous foreboding. You're never certain where the film is going, which is a refreshing change from most movies, whose road maps are clearly marked in advance.
It is Janey's sexuality that drives the movie. Dismissive of a boy her own age, who comes by to court her in a manner that is almost old-fashioned, she becomes, in a sense, her mom's rival for the affections of the nonchalant drifter. When the film finally reaches its climax, the sense of loss of innocence is profound.
Much credit goes to the actors, who create neither heroes nor villains but flawed, flawed people struggling with emotions that overwhelm them. John Toon's atmospheric cinematography and Paul Maxwell's unhurried editing add to the slow, excruciating build to a tragedy. The only negative is the constant use of rock/pop songs on the soundtrack, which distracts from the mood and wary anticipation of a calamity to come.
RAIN
Fireworks Pictures
Rose Road and Communicado
Credits:
Writer-director Christine Jeffs
Based on the novel by: Kirsty Gunn
Producer: Philippa Campbell
Executive producer: Robin Scholes
Director of photography: John Toon
Music: Neil Finn, Edmund McWilliams
Costume designer: Kirsty Cameron
Editor: Paul Maxwell
Cast:
Janey: Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki
Kate: Sarah Peirse
Cady: Marton Csokas
Ed: Alistair Browning
Jim: Aaron Murphy.
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 92 minutes...
- 4/27/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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