Archive | July, 2014
Talk Hard – Zak Hilditch, These Final Hours
July 31, 2014	by Simon Miraudo 0 Comments
It's anarchy in the WA! This week, we review the Perth-based apocalypse movie These Final Hours, now in Australian cinemas, and speak to writer-director Zak Hilditch. Get the party ended! Show Notes: Thanks for tuning in! Apologies for the audio quality of the interview… and the chatty bystanders. Tell your friends to subscribe to Talk Hard on iTunes and […]
The Top 10 'Orange is the New Black' Inmates
By Simon Miraudo July 30, 2014 Every sentence is a story, Orange is the New Black's tagline punnily promises, and it ain't lying. Jenji Kohan's spunky black comedy concerns the highs and lows (okay… mostly lows) of the populace in a female prison seen through the eyes of Taylor Schilling's Piper Chapman, a waspy, artisanal […]
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Television Revision: 'The West Wing' – Season 7
July 29, 2014	by Andrew Williams 0 Comments
By Andrew Williams July 29, 2014 Television Revision is a weekly feature in which our tuned in TV critic trawls through the best the box has to offer, giving you a primer on some of history's finest shows (and the rest). Now, this is a story all about how… The Bartlet White House has to […]
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Anarchy in the W.A. – 'These Final Hours' Review
By Simon Miraudo July 29, 2014 There's never been an end-of-days movie quite like These Final Hours before, an anything-goes orgy of grief, savagery, and sex, with just enough humanity to remind us why maybe farewelling mankind would be a shame after all. Zak Hilditch's major feature debut makes Perth the final destination for an […]
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Talk Hard – Clio Barnard, The Selfish Giant
Sit down, kids, as we share the fable of The Selfish Giant. Simon Miraudo reviews this acclaimed English drama, in Australian cinemas July 31, and then interviews its director and writer, Clio Barnard. Show Notes: Thanks for listening! Do tell your friends to subscribe to Talk Hard on iTunes and feel free to leave a review. Or, follow our RSS […]
'Mad Max: Fury Road' trailer promises non-stop carnage
Almost – almost – confirming that the long-delayed, production-plagued Mad Max: Fury Road actually exists and will be fit for release is this new teaser trailer, fresh from Comic Con. The clip is just a short excerpt of the lengthy sequence played at the Con, where director George Miller revealed that the entire movie would be one long […]
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Walrus? Yes! Kevin Smith's 'Tusk' trailer revealed
The trailer for Kevin Smith's podcast-born horror flick – his first since 2011's Red State – has arrived online, following its premiere at Comic Con. Inspired by a Gumtree post and discussed on Smith and Scott Mosier's Smodcast, Tusk will concern a podcaster (Justin Long) who answers a classified ad from a lonely former seaman (Michael Parks), looking for an […]
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Unexpected 'King Kong' prequel, 'Skull Island', set for 2016
Among the things no one expected to be announced at Comic Con: a remake of Kazaam, a live action adaptation of the ill-fated comic hero Arm-Fall-Off-Boy, and a prequel to King Kong. So, you can imagine Con-goers surprise when the teaser for a new King Kong movie was played at the conclusion of Legendary's panel. Titled Skull Island, the picture […]
Quentin Tarantino is making 'The Hateful Eight' after all
Quentin Tarantino, that tease, revealed at Comic Con he is indeed moving forward with The Hateful Eight, despite suggesting he would abandon the film after the script leaked early this year. According to Deadline, Tarantino made the confirmation after being prodded by a fan's question at his Django/Zorro crossover comic panel. In an earlier report, Deadline suggested QT was […]
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Marvel reveals 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' concept art, announce 'Guardians of the Galaxy 2' at Comic Con; Joaquin Phoenix in talks for 'Doctor Strange'
Marvel, the reigning kings of Comic Con, selfishly dominated the weekend's news cycle with some juicy new details about their upcoming slate. First, over the course of the Con they unveiled some concept art character posters, which, when "assembled" make up the above image, showing the Avengers (plus newbies Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, and Vision) in serious […]
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Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman debuted at Comic Con
The first image of Gal Gadot as Diana Prince (fitted out in full Wonder Woman garb) has been released online, following its debut at the Batman V Superman Comic Con panel. Her character portrait joins the previously released posters for Bats (Ben Affleck) and Supes (Henry Cavill), though neither was quite as rapturously received as this one […]
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By Simon Miraudo July 28, 2014 Every year is a good year for cinema, however, few can boast about having as many memorable movies – certainly ones that remain ingrained in our collective consciousness – as 1989 can. With that in mind, I dug into the Quickflix data bank to see which had been deemed […]
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Play It Again – Blue Velvet
July 25, 2014	by Glenn Dunks 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks July 25, 2014 Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca line. Hey, whatever. It […]
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Look but don't touch the saucy 'Fifty Shades of Grey' trailer
Have that fainting couch at the ready! The scandalous trailer for e-book sensation Fifty Shades of Grey has arrived online. Dakota Johnson plays sexually inexperienced uni student Anastasia Steele in the flick, ultimately seduced by BDSM-loving billionaire Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan). The teaser – tease being the key phrase here – for Sam Taylor-Johnson's adaptation is […]
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'Hot Tub Time Machine 2' trailer full of 'Back to the Future 2'-style shenanigans
The sequel to Hot Tub Time Machine you didn't realise you had asked for hits cinemas next January. For those who are eagerly waiting for it – okay, I'm one of them – this new Red Band trailer should suffice. The picture sees Craig Robinson, Rob Corddry and Clark Duke reeling from the events of […]
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'The Amazing Spider-Man 3' delayed until 2018
Following the disappointing box office returns for The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro, Sony has delayed the release of its sequel from 2016 to 2018. The Amazing Spider-Man 3 does not have a specific date in 2018, suggesting that perhaps the studio is waiting to see how their still-slated villain team-up flick Sinister Six fares […]
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'Mad Max: Fury Road' poster indicates this thing might actually come out someday
Despite being in production for approximately, oh, seventy years, Mad Max: Fury Road might actually be nearing release. That is, if its newly debuted teaser poster isn't outright lying to us. Though it boasts 2015 as its release date, I'll only believe this thing exists when I'm sitting down to watch it. Plagued with delays, […]
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Robert Downey Jr. might be up for 'Iron Man 4' after all
Robert Downey Jr. may not hang up the Iron Man outfit so quickly, says the man who makes close to $50 million a pop for playing Iron Man. Speaking to EW from the set of Avengers: Age of Ultron, Downey Jr. indicated he wasn't entirely opposed to a fourth Iron Man film (he's only contractually […]
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Here's what SpongeBob Squarepants looks like in real life, kinda
A new SpongeBob Squarepants movie is in the works and OH GOD WHAT IS GOING ON? In the first official image, released at ComicCon, we see SpongeBob and his pals in live-action, kinda, not really. The movie, subtitled Sponge Out of Water, will see the characters interact in both live-action and animated environments. So much […]
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Television Revision: The West Wing – Season 6
By Andrew Williams July 23, 2014 Television Revision is a weekly feature in which our tuned in TV critic trawls through the best the box has to offer, giving you a primer on some of history's finest shows (and the rest). Now, this is a story all about how… President Bartlet's presidency begins to wind […]
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Game of stones – Pompeii review
July 23, 2014	by Richard Haridy 0 Comments
By Richard Haridy July 23, 2014 Pompeii is what some critics will label a "guilty pleasure." It's trash. Unadulterated, cliché-ridden junk that is also simply damn fun to watch. I tend to rail against the term "guilty pleasure" as one should never feel guilty about enjoying something. Pompeii is a grand B-grade mash up of […]
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Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook loop-de-loop in time-skipping 'Predestination' trailer
The Spierig Brothers – those rascally twins responsible for Aussie genre fare Undead and Daybreakers – are set to debut their new film Predestination at the 2014 Melbourne International Film Festival's Opening Night Gala. But why wait until then when you can, at least, watch the trailer right now? Starring Ethan Hawke as a "temporal […]
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Benedict Cumberbatch plays the Oscar game in trailer for 'The Imitation Game'
Benedict Cumberbatch will likely find himself in the Oscar game thanks to his starring role in The Imitation Game, if the newly released trailer is any indication. Cumberbatch plays Alan Turing – the brilliant, difficult scientist who helped crack the German Engima Code for the Allies – in this Morten Tyldum-directed flick. The trailer seems […]
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First look at Amy Schumer and Judd Apatow's 'Trainwreck'
The first image from Judd Apatow's latest directorial effort has been shared by the New York Times, in a profile on its writer and star, Amy Schumer. Of course, that's not an image from within their movie, titled Trainwreck, unless Apatow has cast himself as Schumer and Bill Hader's buddy, and they are at some […]
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Angelina Jolie to star opposite and direct Brad Pitt in 'By the Sea'
Auteur Angelina Jolie will slum it on-screen with actor Brad Pitt in upcoming film By the Sea. Oh, and apparently they are an item, too. Jolie and Pitt will reunite for the first time since Mr. and Mrs. Smith in what Universal called in their press release an "intimate, character-driven drama." Jolie will direct the flick, […]
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Matthew McConaughey might be The Company Man
Matthew McConaughey would seem to have his pick of the litter when it comes to selecting a new project, regardless of whether or not he'd be appropriate for the part. Coming off his Dallas Buyers Club Oscar-win, True Detective Emmy nomination, and upcoming starring role in eventual blockbuster Interstellar, if he wanted to play Shirley Temple, […]
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Amy Ryan the latest amazing person to join Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg/Coen brothers collaboration
Amy Ryan, an Oscar nominee for Gone Baby Gone and essential supporting player in most everything else, is set to star opposite Tom Hanks in Steven Spielberg's upcoming, untitled Cold War thriller. As if the flick didn't already have an impressive pedigree, Matt Charman's screenplay was recently retooled by the freaking Coen brothers. Based on […]
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Death takes a holiday – Still Life review
By Glenn Dunks July 22, 2014 The life of a man with what could surely be described as one of the most depressing jobs in England is examined with fine precision in Uberto Pasolini's Still Life. The subject matter may appear overly dour for the man who was Oscar-nominated for producing feel-good comedy The Full […]
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Talk Hard – Eric Bana, Deliver Us From Evil
What an excellent day for an exorcism! This week we chat with returning guest Eric Bana all about his first venture into horror cinema, Deliver Us From Evil, in Australian cinemas July 24, and New Zealand July 31. A review from Quickflix critic Simon Miraudo follows. Show Notes: Thanks for tuning in! Please tell your friends […]
Devil may care – Deliver Us From Evil review
By Simon Miraudo July 21, 2014 Deliver Us From Evil is this year's exorcism movie. (Hollywood is considerate in few ways, but at least it knows to spread these things out every twelve months.) To spare us from boredom, writer-director Scott Derrickson adds the crinkle of it also being a police-on-the-beat movie, with Eric Bana […]
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