4ZZZ Film Club

10/11/2023

"Mutiny In Heaven" is screening in Brisbane next weekend, including a Q&A screening at the new Angelika Film Center with director Ian White and Birthday Party drummer Phil Calvert.

Tickets for the Q&A screening are here:
https://www.angelikafilmcentre.com.au/movies/details/southcity/8663

More info here:
https://www.birthdaypartymovie.com/

Directed by Ian White, MUTINY IN HEAVEN is the story of The Birthday Party’s ascent, apex and inevitable collapse, a thrilling tale of epic struggle, artisti...

13/10/2023

As mentioned on the show last night, Halloween horror film "Dark Harvest" is releasing today on Amazon.

Directed by UK filmmaker David Slade ("Hard Candy", "30 Days of Night", "Black Mirror: Bandersnatch"), the film also had a Brisbane contingent working on VFX.... including me (Adam)! So watch my goddamn movie! It even has 70% on Rotten Tomatoes already!!!

When the cinemas are full of sequels and reboots, original horror will rise on streaming...

In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.

13/03/2023

"Everything Everywhere All At Once" wins most of the things at the Oscars over the course of 3 hours.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once” was named best picture at the 95th Academy Awards on Sunday, capping off an improbable awards season run by winning the movie business’s highes…

26/02/2023

New Farm Cinemas is putting on a Brisbane exclusive season of Empire of Light projected from a 35mm film print. The season commences on Thursday 2 March, 7pm with a Special Preview screening today, Sunday 26 February, 2pm, in the Purple Room.

Tickets:

Screening in glorious 35mm at New Farm Cinemas. Limited Sessions.From Academy Award®-winning director and writer Sam Mendes, Empire of Light is a moving drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times. Set in and around a faded old cinema in an English coastal town in the early 198...

18/01/2023

Ti West's even-more-retro prequel to his 70s retro-horror "X" is finally getting an Australian cinema release on March 16th.

The final part of the trilogy, "Ma###ine", is due for US release in October... so maybe that will get a quicker release in Australia now.

Filmmaker Ti West returns with another chapter from the twisted world of X, in this astonishing follow-up to the year’s most acclaimed horror film. Trapped o...

16/01/2023

"Everything Everywhere All At Once" cleaned up at the Critics Choice Awards. The scoreboard:

BEST PICTURE
"Everything Everywhere All at Once"

BEST ACTOR
Brendan Fraser – "The Whale"

BEST ACTRESS
Cate Blanchett – "Tár"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Ke Huy Quan – "Everything Everywhere All at Once"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Angela Bassett – "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever"

BEST YOUNG ACTOR/ACTRESS
Gabriel LaBelle – "The Fabelmans"

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE
"Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery"

BEST DIRECTOR
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – "Everything Everywhere All at Once"

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert – "Everything Everywhere All at Once"

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Sarah Polley – "Women Talking"

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Claudio Miranda – "Top Gun: Maverick"

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Florencia Martin, Anthony Carlino – "Babylon"

BEST EDITING
Paul Rogers – "Everything Everywhere All at Once"

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Ruth E. Carter – "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever"

BEST HAIR AND MAKEUP
"Elvis"

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
"Avatar: The Way of Water"

BEST COMEDY
"Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery"

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
"Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio"

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
"RRR"

BEST SONG
“Naatu Naatu” – "RRR"

BEST SCORE
Hildur Guðnadóttir – "Tár"

BEST MOVIE MADE FOR TELEVISION
"Weird: The Al Yankovic Story"

'Everything Everywhere All at Once' was named best picture, with Cate Blanchett and Brendan Fraser among the film winners. 'Abbott Elementary,' 'Better Call Saul' and 'The Dropout' were among the TV winners.

11/01/2023

Golden Globes movie scoreboard:

Best Motion Picture – Drama
The Fabelmans

Best Performance by an Actress – Drama
Cate Blanchett, Tár

Best Performance by an Actor – Drama
Austin Butler, Elvis

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Performance by an Actress – Musical or Comedy
Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Performance by an Actor – Musical or Comedy
Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Motion Picture – Animated
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio

Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language
Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Angela Bassett, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Director — Motion Picture
Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture
Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Original Score – Motion Picture
Justin Hurwitz, Babylon

Best Original Song – Motion Picture
“Naatu Naatu,” Kala Bhairava, M.M. Keeravani, Kala Bhairava, Rahul Sipligunj (RRR)

Quinta Brunson, Tyler James Williams, Angela Bassett, Ke Huy Quan, Colin Farrell, Jennifer Coolidge, Steven Spielberg, Michelle Yeoh, Julia Garner, Zendaya, Guillermo del Toro, Cate Blanchett and Austin Butler were among those honored Tuesday night.

10/01/2023

"Francis Ford Coppola’s latest movie, the sci-fi-tinged Megalopolis, has descended into chaos, according to multiple sources. The movie, currently halfway through shooting in Atlanta, has in the last week lost key creative talent including its production designer and supervising art director. That’s on top of losing the entire visual effects team in the first part of December."

So it's a standard Coppola production then?

The filmmaker is halfway through the movie in Atlanta, with one source describing the set as "absolute madness."

24/12/2022

"At its core, a trailer is an advertisement designed to sell a movie by providing consumers with a preview of the movie”

This is how the judge hearing the class action suit dismissed Universal's claims that a movie trailer is "protected free speech". The defence's claim that trailers are a separate “artistic, expressive work” is ridiculous, because that's obviously not the primary purpose of creating a movie trailer. There is a reasonable expectation that a movie trailer is a representation of the final film... even if they cherry pick the best bits.

So while the idea of suing the studio because Ana de Armas was in the trailer for "Yesterday" but not in the movie seems insane (and claiming $5M in damages IS insane), it may be useful for establishing what consumers legally have the right to expect from movie advertising. Though, as one commenter pointed out, it may just result in a disclaimer on all trailers: e.g. "Content in this trailer may not appear in the completed film."

Yesterday, Universal’s troubles suddenly weren’t so far away, at least when it comes to Ana de Armas’ absence from the 2019 Danny Boyle-directed flick Yesterday. “Universal is cor…

20/12/2022

A good case for 2022's prevailing trend in horror.

A year in horror movies about the nightmare of aging, from X to Pearl, Barbarian to Old People.

14/12/2022

The results of IndieWire's poll of 165 critics for the best films of 2022:

1. “TÁR”
2. “Aftersun”
3. “The Banshees of Inisherin”
4. “Everything Everywhere All At Once”
5. “The Fabelmans”
6. “Decision to Leave”
7. “Nope”
8. “RRR”
9. “Top Gun: Maverick”
10. “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed”

Click through for the other categories:

165 critics from around the world voted in this year’s survey, and one film topped several of the major categories by a landslide.

13/12/2022

He also wrote songs recorded by Nina Simone, Nancy Wilson, Shirley Bassey and Mel Tillis and themes for 'Inside the Actors Studio' and the Barcelona Summer Olympics.

09/12/2022

Here's the Sight & Sound Top 100 Films Poll we mentioned on the show last night.

The Directors Poll results are here:
https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/directors-100-greatest-films-all-time

In 1952, the Sight and Sound team had the novel idea of asking critics to name the greatest films of all time. The tradition became decennial, increasing in size and prestige as the decades passed. The Sight and Sound poll is now a major bellwether of critical opinion on cinema and this year’s edi...

03/12/2022

The New York Film Critics Circle had an interesting spread of awards, with "Tár" picking up best film and best actress but the other awards spread around more pop films.

Bollywood action epic "RRR" picking up the best director award was a bit of a surprise.

Awards 2022 Winners Best Film: Tár Best Director: S. S. Rajamouli, RRR Best Actor: Colin Farrell, After Yang and The Banshees of Inisherin Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, TÁR Best Supporting Actor: Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once Best Supporting Actress: Keke Palmer, Nope Best Screenp...

02/12/2022

It's amazing what you can do with stunt doubles, face replacement, de-aging and deep fakes.

"Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny" will be released on 29 June 2023... 2 weeks before Harrison Ford's 81st birthday.

See and the Dial of Destiny, only in theaters, June 30 2023. Harrison Ford returns as the legendary hero archaeologist in the highly anticipate...

29/11/2022

It's the start of awards season, with the Gotham Awards timed to coincide with the rush to get award-hopefuls into cinemas before the end of the year.

They picked "Everything Everywhere All At Once" as Best Feature, which could be the start of a run. While I'm sure it will pick up a bunch more trophies in the next few months, it'll be interesting to see how it goes with the top awards. On the one hand it's a bit too weird for the mainstream awards, but it's also a bit too popular for the arthouse awards.

“Everything Everywhere All at Once,” a multiverse-spanning adventure, scored at the 32nd annual Gotham Awards, capturing the prize for best feature. It also nabbed a best supporting per…