Four Australian films - 'Ladies in Black', 'Gurrumul', 'Breath' and 'Mary Magdalene' - have received nominations for the Asia Pacific Screen Awards, to be held in Brisbane in November.
Universal’s 'First Man' has an Academy Award-winning director in Damien Chazelle, an Oscar-lauded writer in Josh Singer and stars two-time Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling. But that combination did not catapult the Neil Armstrong biopic to great heights.
The critics hated 'Venom', blasted as a “puddle of simplistic, sanitized PG-13 drivel” and clumsy, monolithic and fantastically boring. Audiences must be watching a different movie.
The Australian titles released in cinemas this year including holdovers will overtake the calendar 2017 total in the next week or so, boosted by Bruce Beresford’s Ladies in Black.
While children’s and family titles understandably are dominating ticket sales during the school vacation, Bruce Beresford’s 'Ladies in Black' looked smart in its second weekend.
Bruce Beresford’s 'Ladies in Black' opened impressively last weekend, considering that the primary target audience - mature cinemagoers - don't normally rush out to see films in the first weekend.
Ryan Corr returns to comedy.
Alison McGirr plays a discontented Sydney department store worker whose marriage has gone stale.