Variety critic Guy Lodge damned 'American Made' with faint praise, likening the "sweat-slicked, exhausting but glibly entertaining" CIA adventure starring Tom Cruise as the kind of film he could have made at almost any time in the last 30 years.
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'Lion'’s Luke Davies and 'Hacksaw Ridge'’s Andrew Knight and Robert Schenkkan have won the major feature film prizes at the AWGIEs, the annual awards presented by the Australian Writers’ Guild.
The Australian box office will emerge from a weak winter only 3 per cent down on last year’s record total.
The recent Cultural Funding by Government 2015-16 report, prepared by the ABS for the Meeting of Cultural ministers this month, shows NSW invested only $5.8 million on ‘film and video production and distribution’ compared to $40.4 million by Victoria, $18.6 million by Queensland, $15.2 million by WA and $8.2 million by SA.
Writer-director Damien Power has had a “life-changing” six months with his film, 'Killing Ground'.
Australian features have dominated the Audience Awards at the country’s biggest film fest, the Melbourne International Film Festival.
Australian director Ben Lewin’s latest film, 'Please Stand By', has been selected to screen at the Austin Film Festival in Texas.
Two more Australian films have been added to the Toronto International Film Festival’s 2017 program, including the second entrant from Breath producer Jamie Hilton.