In Film Australia - all about Australian films

I confess: I am a little bit in love with Brian Trenchard-Smith. I think he is an excellent director who, arising in a time when basically anyone could do anything they wished in the Australian film industry, convincingly established a name for himself.
Trenchard-Smith directed the first Australian-Hong Kong co-production (The Man From Hong Kong) and [...]

I don’t know how films get lost but somehow they do. Was it an accident? Negligence? Someone so traumatised by the film that they felt the need to burn every copy in existence? Sometimes we may never know.
Thankfully At Last… Bullamakanka: The Motion Picture is not one of these films but it is, however, rare [...]

On the day that Harold Camping said the world would end (for the second time) I sat down to watch Sons of Steel. That’s fitting seeing as Sons of Steel, made in 1989 and set in 2012, follows rock-star Black Alice as he tries to bring down the totalitarian government and stop the end of [...]

Planning your next cult movie night and not sure what to watch? Have you seen all the slasher, bad-taste and splutterpunk V.H.S’s at your local video store? Or perhaps you’re just looking for a film with a bit of Australian flare? Well, look no further.
Colin Eggleston, director of Long Weekend and Fantasm, also made Outback [...]

I don’t mind the odd horror/thriller film. I’m no aficionado by any means, but I’ve seen a few. I think perhaps that I don’t revel in them is because I find the whole experience an unbelievable farce. Yes, I understand that some men like to live alone in isolated cabins, and yes, when a young, [...]

Director Russell Mulcahy’s outback is a dangerous place. It is a dry, barren landscape broken only by wild pigs, crazed ‘roo killers, and the dreaded Razorback - the most deadly wild boar in all of Australia.

Everyone views, interprets and analyses films differently, which is one of the reasons that makes this medium so interesting, varied and forever contemporary. This is even more so when something completely unexpected appears in a film, something which happened to me whilst I watched John Ruane’s 1990 feature, Death In Brunswick. The one resounding aspect [...]

Emerging from the influx of Australian films post 1970 and the introduction of government incentives and tax cuts under the 10BA ruling and the reawakening of Australian Film Institute, Stone took a look at the sub-culture that was biker gangs in Sydney. Producer, director and actor Sandy Harbutt’s 1974 feature takes the viewer into [...]