Later this year, Xavier Samuel will be seen as part of David Ayer's Fury, a film which features giant man-made machines. Now, for one of his next films, Samuel will be a man-made monster, as he's set to play a contemporary version of Frankenstein's monster in a film that updates Mary Shelley's classic tale. What…
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Imagine the Lonely Island video "Motherlover" as a sun-drenched literary drama, and you have the basic premise of Anne Fontaine's new film Two Mothers. Naomi Watts and Robin Wright star as two childhood pals living side-by-side on a gorgeous Australian beach, along with their strapping sons Ian (Xavier Samuel) and Tom (James Frecheville). Their lives…
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Here's what looks like the surfer version of Dogtown and Z-Boys. The Australian film Drift is based on a true story of brothers who moved from surfing into the manufacture and sales of surf gear. It's a '70s-set tale of enthusiasm and entrepreneurial spirit, with Myles Pollard and Xavier Samuel in the lead roles, and Sam…
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Sean Byrne's Aussie horror The Loved Ones first attracted attention back in 2009, when it nabbed the Midnight Madness Audience Award at the Toronto Film Festival, and continued to garner good buzz on the festival circuit through 2010... and then 2011. Now it's 2012, and though it seems like festivalgoers have nothing but nice things…
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Zoe Saldana is in talks to join Mark Ruffalo in Infinitely Polar Bear, the directorial debut of screenwriter Maya Forbes. The drama follows a bipolar man (Ruffalo) and his long-suffering wife (Saldana). When the husband goes off his meds, he finds his life deteriorating along with his psychological condition. As he loses his job and…
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I never realized that I wanted to see a remake of the market sections of The Mist where Stephen King's crazy monsters are played by tiger sharks. But then I saw the sales trailer for Bait, the 3D 'sharks in a supermarket' film by Highlander director Russell Mulcahy, and I realized how limited my vision…
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For his latest film, Anonymous, Roland Emmerich departs from his established world-busting pattern...or does he? While the film doesn't feature scenes of overt global destruction as per 2012 and Independence Day, the movie does seek to drop a bomb on the literary world by taking seriously the conspiracy theory that says the works of William…
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The Australian horror film The Loved Ones has been wowing genre-loving audiences since it debuted at festivals last year. It won the Midnight Madness program award (an audience-voted award) at the Toronto Film Festival in September, and has done quite well at other fests, too. There's no US distributor for the film just yet, but…
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