Australia Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/australia/ What to Watch Fri, 30 Aug 2024 16:46:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png Australia Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/australia/ 32 32 THE ROYAL HOTEL Trailer: Julia Garner Faces An Outback Dread In Kitty Green’s Thriller https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/the-royal-hotel/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 17:56:59 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=40341

After collaborating on the intense #MeToo drama The Assistant, director Kitty Green and star Julia Garner go Down Under for a new edge-of-your-seat thriller that addresses the power dynamics between men and women. Garner stars alongside Jessica Henwick (Glass Onion) […]

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]]> OF AN AGE Trailer: Goran Stolevski’s Queer Drama Explores a 24-Hour Romance https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/of-an-age/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:36:45 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=38631

Macedonian writer-director Goran Stolevski came onto the film scene earlier this year with his horror film You Won’t Be Alone, which has its world premiere at Sundance. Now he takes a genre shift with his newest drama set in Australia […]

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]]> TOP END WEDDING https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/top-end-wedding-review/ Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:39:38 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30739

A frequently charming, sometimes silly, romantic dramedy of cross-cultural love and marriage, Wayne Blair's Top End Wedding presents...

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]]> A Conversation with Imogen Thomas (EMU RUNNER) https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/emu-runner-interview/ Fri, 05 Oct 2018 17:52:17 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30222 I met with director Imogen Thomas – whom I know from years back, in film school – on Friday, September 7, 2018, at the Toronto International Film Festival, to discuss her narrative feature debut, Emu Runner, which premiered at the fest. The […]

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]]> A Conversation with Gabrielle Brady (ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/gabrielle-brady/ Wed, 16 May 2018 16:06:27 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29616

I met with Australian director Gabrielle Brady on Saturday, April 21, at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, to discuss her debut feature documentary Island of the Hungry Ghosts (which I also reviewed, and which won the festival’s Best Documentary Feature […]

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]]> ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/island-of-the-hungry-ghosts-review/ Tue, 01 May 2018 21:29:22 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29527

Shooting on Christmas Island, an Australian possession in the Indian Ocean, south of Indonesia, director Brady (making her feature debut) creates a mesmerizing work of visual wonder, the breathtaking images forming an evocative setting for a vital discussion of human rights.

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]]> KANGAROO: A LOVE-HATE STORY https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/kangaroo-doc-review/ Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:33:02 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28892

This movie tells us to beware and to be afraid, lest these magnificent creatures go the way of the Dodo.

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]]> A Conversation With Ashleigh Cummings (HOUNDS OF LOVE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/ashleigh-cummings-interview/ Sat, 18 Mar 2017 22:09:51 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27736 I met with Australian actress Ashleigh Cummings, who plays the lead in Ben Young’s harrowing new abduction thriller, Hounds of Love, on Sunday, March 12, 2017, at SXSW, as part of a press roundtable with four other journalists, to discuss […]

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]]> HOUNDS OF LOVE https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/hounds-of-love-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/hounds-of-love-review/#comments Sat, 11 Mar 2017 05:53:05 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27667

A brutal cinematic experience, which tells the harrowing tale of a psychotic couple that abducts teenage girls, Hounds of Love feels like a true-crime thriller (though it is entirely fictional)

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/hounds-of-love-review/feed/ 1 A Conversation With Justin Kurzel (THE SNOWTOWN MURDERS) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-justin-kurzel-the-snowtown-murders/ Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:30:21 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=15521 If you’re in the mood for some light, fluffy fare, don’t go anywhere near Justin Kurzel’s The Snowtown Murders (original title: Snowtown). Which isn’t to say that you shouldn’t see it. It’s just that Kurzel’s recounting of the horrific serial […]

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