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As soon as I walked around the corner, I knew something was wrong. I was so used to seeing her poking out of the parking garage to greet me, I noticed straight away that she wasn’t there. No, no, no, no, it couldn’t be, I chanted in my head, breaking out into a run towards [...]
“Load the magazine like this, hold your thumb out of the way, pull the trigger and you’re good to go.” A (slightly) scary man was trying to explain something very important, but I was lost in my thoughts as I stared at the weapon in my hands. Having never seen a gun up close, touched [...]
For most independent filmmakers, having their movie premiere at a major film festival would signal a successful near-end of a long slog getting it to the big screen. But for writer/director Dennis Lee, that was just the beginning. Having written his first feature “Fireflies In The Garden” in film school back in 1999, his casting [...]
A few weeks ago, I was rewatching “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” when a thought struck me. It was during the scene where Richard Dreyfuss’ character is driving to that odd shaped mountain, and funnily enough, it was nothing to do with aliens. As I watched him struggle to read a map and drive [...]
In the first of a series of profiles on up and coming directors, I chat to former dancer Abe Sylvia, whose feature film “Dirty Girl” is now out in US cinemas. I’m always amazed at the dedication first time filmmakers need to get their movie out into the world, and with “Dirty Girl” it took [...]
(I seem to have an alarming amount of pro-Gosling blogs on my website. I’m not obsessed. I swear! This is an excerpt from a story I wrote which ran in Filmink Magazine’s October issue. Thought I’d share it ahead of the film’s release in Australia, for more, pick up the magazine on sale now.) Producer/star [...]
Well who would have thought a 17 year old hand-drawn animated film would beat a Brad Pitt blockbuster at the box office? Certainly not Hollywood! And probably not Brad Pitt either, who has been doing some serious press around the world talking up his (admittedly excellent) baseball flick “Moneyball”. But “The Lion King 3D” beat [...]
Glancing at the hundreds of people lining the red carpet for Toronto’s Drive premiere, I noticed 90% were female. “I love your dress!” yelled one young girl to me, “Will you send Ryan Gosling our way after you interview him? We love him!” “Sure!” I laughed, “And you do the same if you get him [...]
Momentarily distracted by the sight of Rob Lowe, I tripped into the elevator at the Intercontinental hotel. Classy, I thought, looking around the packed space to see if anyone noticed. A familiar face smiled back. Automatically, I exclaimed a loud “HI” to it, but somewhere between the ‘H’ and the ‘I’ I realised, I don’t [...]
“Just think, you’ll be halfway to 60!” said my (supposedly) good friend Hema, laughing at my shocked expression. “Oh my god, 60!” I replied, “My heart jumped into my throat when you said that!” In a few short days, I’ll be thirty years old. Thirty! When I think of a thirty year old, I think [...]
