In Film Australia - all about Australian films

Most people I know (and read) seem to spend more time moaning about Australian cinema than actually watching it. Currently on our screens is Cactus, an accessible and entertaining road movie Read the rest

Any film about a cross-dressing male musician who performs incognito in an all-girl band will inevitably draw comparisons to Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot (1959), but this sweet-natured, modestly risqué rom-com from writer/director Gerard Lee succeeds in building a charm all of its own. Read the rest

Forbidden Lie$ is director Anna Broinowski’s scorching documentary about literary fraud and con artist Norma Khouri. To celebrate the film’s DVD release (now available in stores) Madman Entertainment give In Film readers the chance to win one of three copies. Read the rest

In his feature film debut writer/director Brad Haynes makes an epic war movie on a shoestring budget. Focusing on the relationship between a war veteran and a Japanese POW, Broken Sun spans multiple countries and languages and both World Wars, and recreates historical events such as the Somme Battlefields of WWI and the Cowra Breakout of 1944. Brad Haynes discusses big visions and small budgets with Luke Buckmaster. Read the rest

Every when-animals-attack horror movie comes with a corny tagline, and that tradition is faithfully maintained in the gnarly debut feature of Australian filmmakers Andrew Traucki and David Nerlich. Read the rest

In his feature film debut director Brad Haynes achieves the near-paradoxical feat of creating an epic war movie on a shoestring budget. Read the rest