Cartoons aren’t just for kids anymore. Funimation’s animated film “Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train,” based on the popular Japanese TV series, is hoping to become the rare R-rated Oscar nominee for Best Animated Feature. The last such movie to pull off this feat was “Anomalisa” (2015), a stop-motion picture filled with swearing, nudity and sex; it lost to the much more family-friendly “Inside Out.” Can “Demon Slayer” make Oscar history by becoming the first R-rated toon to win the award? (Watch the trailer above.)
“Demon Slayer” is recommended for adults due to its excessive violence and gore, but that’s not necessarily a hurdle that will stop it from earning Academy Awards love. After all, violent movies like “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” “Joker” and “1917” all took home Oscars just last year. In American culture, violence has always been much more palatable to audiences than sex and nudity,...
“Demon Slayer” is recommended for adults due to its excessive violence and gore, but that’s not necessarily a hurdle that will stop it from earning Academy Awards love. After all, violent movies like “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” “Joker” and “1917” all took home Oscars just last year. In American culture, violence has always been much more palatable to audiences than sex and nudity,...
- 3/4/2021
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
Italian Film Festival USA of St. Louis continues this weekend with the local premieres of five more Italian films. They are shown in their original language with English subtitles at 3 venues on the campus of Washington University: Lab Sciences 300, Brown Hall and Steinberg Auditorium.
For more details such as directions, times, sponsors, and a complete schedule go to the Italian Film Festival USA site Here
http://www.italianfilmfestivalstlouis.com/index.html
Admission is Free!
Italian Film Festival USA of St. Louis continues this weekend with The Best Offer, The Venice Syndrome, Scattered Clouds , The Red And The Blue, and Reality.
The Best Offer screens Friday, April 11 at Brown Hall on the campus of Washington University at 8pm
The Best Offer tells the story of Virgil Oldman (played by Geoffrey Rush), a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to...
For more details such as directions, times, sponsors, and a complete schedule go to the Italian Film Festival USA site Here
http://www.italianfilmfestivalstlouis.com/index.html
Admission is Free!
Italian Film Festival USA of St. Louis continues this weekend with The Best Offer, The Venice Syndrome, Scattered Clouds , The Red And The Blue, and Reality.
The Best Offer screens Friday, April 11 at Brown Hall on the campus of Washington University at 8pm
The Best Offer tells the story of Virgil Oldman (played by Geoffrey Rush), a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to...
- 4/8/2014
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The producers of horror/thriller feature Patrick and documentary In Bob We Trust are finalising Australian release plans after their well-received world premieres last Saturday at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
Patrick, Mark Hartley.s re-imagining of Richard Franklin.s 1978 psychological thriller, will open in Australia in October. Producer Antony I. Ginnane said distributor Umbrella Entertainment is tossing up between October 17 and October 24.
.A skilfully made genre piece, Patrick is a very satisfying movie meal, well done with a garnish of dark humour,. opined Radio 3Aw.s Jim Schembri.
The Guardian.s Luke Buckmaster sparked to a .high-powered genre film that works fiendishly hard to satisfy its target demographic of squealers, thrill seekers and horror buffs. They won.t leave disappointed..
The film, which got an Ma rating last week, stars Sharni Vinson as Kathy, a nurse who takes a job at a private hospital for the clinically comatose in...
Patrick, Mark Hartley.s re-imagining of Richard Franklin.s 1978 psychological thriller, will open in Australia in October. Producer Antony I. Ginnane said distributor Umbrella Entertainment is tossing up between October 17 and October 24.
.A skilfully made genre piece, Patrick is a very satisfying movie meal, well done with a garnish of dark humour,. opined Radio 3Aw.s Jim Schembri.
The Guardian.s Luke Buckmaster sparked to a .high-powered genre film that works fiendishly hard to satisfy its target demographic of squealers, thrill seekers and horror buffs. They won.t leave disappointed..
The film, which got an Ma rating last week, stars Sharni Vinson as Kathy, a nurse who takes a job at a private hospital for the clinically comatose in...
- 7/29/2013
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
Fairfax Media has installed a new manager of corporate communications after doing without one for more than three years.
Australian Financial Review journalist Brad Hatch, a former lawyer, quietly moved into the role in recent weeks.
Hatch is not a direct replacement for the company’s corporate affairs chief Bruce Wolpe, who returned to his native Us to become a congressional adviser in early 2009.
Wolpe, who had been the voice of Fairfax Media for a decade, has since returned to Australia where he is now an adviser within Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s office.
Hatch will report into Fairfax’s group general counsel and company secretary Gail Hambly.
Hatch joined The Afr in 2002 with an honours degrees in economics and law from Sydney University.
He was a staff writer on the title’s Boss magazine before joining the Afr’s investment banking reporting unit, DealBook, when it launched in November...
Australian Financial Review journalist Brad Hatch, a former lawyer, quietly moved into the role in recent weeks.
Hatch is not a direct replacement for the company’s corporate affairs chief Bruce Wolpe, who returned to his native Us to become a congressional adviser in early 2009.
Wolpe, who had been the voice of Fairfax Media for a decade, has since returned to Australia where he is now an adviser within Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s office.
Hatch will report into Fairfax’s group general counsel and company secretary Gail Hambly.
Hatch joined The Afr in 2002 with an honours degrees in economics and law from Sydney University.
He was a staff writer on the title’s Boss magazine before joining the Afr’s investment banking reporting unit, DealBook, when it launched in November...
- 4/5/2012
- by mumbrella
- Encore Magazine
The film critic on the receiving end of a rant by a director at Tuesday’s inaugural Aacta Awards after giving the film a negative review has told Encore that there was no personal attack to the director.
During the Aacta Awards, A Few Best Men director Stephan Elliott attacked The Age’s Jim Schembri over the critic’s review of the film, accusing Schembri of personal attacks. The attack was removed from Nine’s broadcast of the show.
Schembri on behalf of himself and The Age told Encore: “We respect Stephan Elliott’s right to bite back at negative reviews. However, we never engage in personal attacks in film reviews and cannot see how referring to him as ‘having proved himself worthy of so much better’ constitutes one.
“Also, journalists must never feel any obligation whatsoever to “support” Australian films, only good ones. Stephan Elliott showed with Easy Virtue...
During the Aacta Awards, A Few Best Men director Stephan Elliott attacked The Age’s Jim Schembri over the critic’s review of the film, accusing Schembri of personal attacks. The attack was removed from Nine’s broadcast of the show.
Schembri on behalf of himself and The Age told Encore: “We respect Stephan Elliott’s right to bite back at negative reviews. However, we never engage in personal attacks in film reviews and cannot see how referring to him as ‘having proved himself worthy of so much better’ constitutes one.
“Also, journalists must never feel any obligation whatsoever to “support” Australian films, only good ones. Stephan Elliott showed with Easy Virtue...
- 2/2/2012
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Director Stephan Elliott took the opportunity to deliver a serve to film critic Jim Schembri at the inaugural Aacta awards at the Sydney Opera House last night. Elliott bit back at Schembri’s review of A Few Best Men, which branded the film ‘unreleasable’. Despite Schembri’s review, the film opened with solid box office takings last weekend. In a lengthy rant, Elliott slammed Schembri for “personal attacks” within the review of the film as he lashed out at people unwilling to support the Australian film industry. Elliott told the audience that his tirade would be removed from Channel Nine’s delayed broadcast of the awards as producers had flagged this, along with several other categories, to be excluded prior to the show.
The Aacta ceremony, delivered minus a host, saw box office champion Red Dog take home the best film award but the biggest success of the night was...
The Aacta ceremony, delivered minus a host, saw box office champion Red Dog take home the best film award but the biggest success of the night was...
- 1/31/2012
- by Brooke Hemphill
- Encore Magazine
Fred Schepisi’s Eye of the Storm, starring Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis and Charlotte Rampling has won The Age‘s Critic’s award at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
The film is an adaptation of a novel by Patrick White and Schepisi’s first Australian film since Evil Angels in 1988.
The award is new this year, sponsored by The Age and judged by the newspaper’s film critics: Philippa Hawker, Jim Schembri, Jake Wilson and Tom Ryan.
Gina McColl, Arts Editor of The Age said The Eye Of The Storm was selected for “Schepisi’s artful direction, the rich performances in major and minor roles, the thoughtful engagement with an Australian literary classic, and the vivid, witty depiction of the bonds of family and of the life of a culture in the process of transformation.”
In the running for the award was eight Australian films from the features program; The Eye of the Storm,...
The film is an adaptation of a novel by Patrick White and Schepisi’s first Australian film since Evil Angels in 1988.
The award is new this year, sponsored by The Age and judged by the newspaper’s film critics: Philippa Hawker, Jim Schembri, Jake Wilson and Tom Ryan.
Gina McColl, Arts Editor of The Age said The Eye Of The Storm was selected for “Schepisi’s artful direction, the rich performances in major and minor roles, the thoughtful engagement with an Australian literary classic, and the vivid, witty depiction of the bonds of family and of the life of a culture in the process of transformation.”
In the running for the award was eight Australian films from the features program; The Eye of the Storm,...
- 8/7/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
Updated through 5/23.
"Bill Hunter, the archetypal working class Australian of a multitude of movies including the quirky trio Muriel's Wedding, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Strictly Ballroom has died of cancer," reports the AP. He was 71. "The prolific star of Australian movie and television screens with a distinctively broad and gravelly accent and an authoritative no-nonsense style remained an actor in demand until the end. He recently narrated a two-part television documentary about the floods and cyclone that became Australia's most expensive natural disasters early this year…. Director Baz Luhrmann described Hunter in a statement last week as 'the go-to iconic actor to synthesize quintessential Australian-ness.'"
"Of all his work, Hunter's portrayal of Major Barton in Peter Weir's classic 1981 war epic Gallipoli is widely regarded as his finest," write Jim Schembri and Karl Quinn for the Sydney Morning Herald. "Charged with playing a...
"Bill Hunter, the archetypal working class Australian of a multitude of movies including the quirky trio Muriel's Wedding, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Strictly Ballroom has died of cancer," reports the AP. He was 71. "The prolific star of Australian movie and television screens with a distinctively broad and gravelly accent and an authoritative no-nonsense style remained an actor in demand until the end. He recently narrated a two-part television documentary about the floods and cyclone that became Australia's most expensive natural disasters early this year…. Director Baz Luhrmann described Hunter in a statement last week as 'the go-to iconic actor to synthesize quintessential Australian-ness.'"
"Of all his work, Hunter's portrayal of Major Barton in Peter Weir's classic 1981 war epic Gallipoli is widely regarded as his finest," write Jim Schembri and Karl Quinn for the Sydney Morning Herald. "Charged with playing a...
- 5/23/2011
- MUBI
While sorting through the films showing at Cannes there are a couple of days where I have some openings so I began searching for movies that weren't part of the official selection and came across a film called Snowtown a film from first time feature film director Justin Kurzel centered on John Bunting, Australia's most notorious serial killer.
Critical quotes are piling up, but they are also warning this isn't just another serial killer feature. Frank Hatherley from Screen Daily writes, "Snowtown is no ordinary 'serial killer' movie. There is no charismatic Hannibal Lector cooking up thrills, no Wolf Creek super-hermit delivering hold-my-hand multiplex horrors. In a triumph of naturalism, debut director Justin Kurzel has brilliantly recreated scenes from Australia's most notorious killing/torture spree."
Jim Schembri of The Age called it "an absolutely mesmerizing, uncompromising crime-movie masterpiece; understated in style, chilling in effect, devastating in impact."
I also reached out to resident Aussie,...
Critical quotes are piling up, but they are also warning this isn't just another serial killer feature. Frank Hatherley from Screen Daily writes, "Snowtown is no ordinary 'serial killer' movie. There is no charismatic Hannibal Lector cooking up thrills, no Wolf Creek super-hermit delivering hold-my-hand multiplex horrors. In a triumph of naturalism, debut director Justin Kurzel has brilliantly recreated scenes from Australia's most notorious killing/torture spree."
Jim Schembri of The Age called it "an absolutely mesmerizing, uncompromising crime-movie masterpiece; understated in style, chilling in effect, devastating in impact."
I also reached out to resident Aussie,...
- 5/6/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
When the election was called, we thought, ‘This is ridiculous’. The demographic we were aiming for was exactly the demographic that cares about this country and they’re going to stick by the election process and the results. So our campaign actually got lost.
Director Nadia Tass on the box office results of her film Matching Jack.
Matching Jack was released on August 19, and the Federal Election was held on August 21. Heavily supported by Twentieth Century Fox, it earned a little more than $800,000.
In conversation with Jim Schembri at The Sydney Morning Herald, Tass and her partner and business associate David Parker said they “double-mortgaged” their house to make the film, yet they have no regrets about making it, and particularly not about making it in Australia – according to Tass, it could have been made in the Us, where it would have been easier and ‘more fun’.
“I expected a...
Director Nadia Tass on the box office results of her film Matching Jack.
Matching Jack was released on August 19, and the Federal Election was held on August 21. Heavily supported by Twentieth Century Fox, it earned a little more than $800,000.
In conversation with Jim Schembri at The Sydney Morning Herald, Tass and her partner and business associate David Parker said they “double-mortgaged” their house to make the film, yet they have no regrets about making it, and particularly not about making it in Australia – according to Tass, it could have been made in the Us, where it would have been easier and ‘more fun’.
“I expected a...
- 1/13/2011
- by Miguel Gonzalez
- Encore Magazine
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