As an ad man in AA, Patrick Brammall convinces in Brendan Cowell’s film debut, whose glossy cynicism comes from a thoughtful place – the theatre
In director Billy Wilder’s 1945 classic The Lost Weekend, one of cinema’s earliest serious depictions of alcoholism, Ray Milland plays Don Birnam, an off-the-wagon writer embarking on an epic five-day bender. He sheds all kinds of moral scruples and ends up like a character in an Edgar Allen Poe story – in hospital screaming in terror at hallucinations caused by delirium tremens.
Ruben Guthrie, the booze-guzzling protagonist of writer-director Brendan Cowell’s impressive Sydney-set feature debut – the opening film of the 2015 Sydney film festival – gets off comparatively lightly. The award-winning ad man’s wakeup call is a broken arm inflicted by jumping off the roof of his waterfront mansion.
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In director Billy Wilder’s 1945 classic The Lost Weekend, one of cinema’s earliest serious depictions of alcoholism, Ray Milland plays Don Birnam, an off-the-wagon writer embarking on an epic five-day bender. He sheds all kinds of moral scruples and ends up like a character in an Edgar Allen Poe story – in hospital screaming in terror at hallucinations caused by delirium tremens.
Ruben Guthrie, the booze-guzzling protagonist of writer-director Brendan Cowell’s impressive Sydney-set feature debut – the opening film of the 2015 Sydney film festival – gets off comparatively lightly. The award-winning ad man’s wakeup call is a broken arm inflicted by jumping off the roof of his waterfront mansion.
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- 6/4/2015
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
I have to admit that ‘The Following’ lost me last year. The murders felt too trite and gratuitous; I didn’t care about the main characters enough to want them to not die. But after screening the series’ second season premiere, ‘Resurrection,’ I can confirm that Season 2 is going to be way, way better.
Fox’s Kevin Bacon-starrer The Following is never going to hook you if you’re not a horror fan. But I am a horror fan — a huge one, in fact — and even I thought that Season 1 of The Following had major chinks in its armor. But Kevin Williamson is a great producer, and the show’s dynamic Season 2 premiere is a giant step in the right direction. Here are five reasons why The Following is better this time around.
5 Reasons Why ‘The Following’ Is Better In Season 2 Take Our Poll
1. Humor
Kevin Williamson is known...
Fox’s Kevin Bacon-starrer The Following is never going to hook you if you’re not a horror fan. But I am a horror fan — a huge one, in fact — and even I thought that Season 1 of The Following had major chinks in its armor. But Kevin Williamson is a great producer, and the show’s dynamic Season 2 premiere is a giant step in the right direction. Here are five reasons why The Following is better this time around.
5 Reasons Why ‘The Following’ Is Better In Season 2 Take Our Poll
1. Humor
Kevin Williamson is known...
- 1/3/2014
- by Shaunna Murphy
- HollywoodLife
Stars: Billy Clarke, Luke Healy, Joshua Mayes-Cooper, Bernard Hill, Graham Till | Written and Directed by Anthony Woodley
Outpost 11, the first feature film for director Anthony Woodley, is science-fiction, pure and simple, and I went into the feature with little-to-no knowledge of what it was about or what to expect.
The film stars Billy Clarke (Hunger), Luke Healy (The Football Factory), Joshua Mayes-Cooper and, with a small role, Bernard Hill (Lord of the Rings). The cast, though mostly people I wasn’t much aware of prior to seeing this, are all very good and their performances are sturdy. Billy Clarke, who plays Graham, is particularly excellent in his role. Unsympathetic and sometimes just plain contemptible, he is a bizarre character that we discover more about as the film proceeds.
The story is captivating, an alternative past where the World is being run on the power of steam. We follow a...
Outpost 11, the first feature film for director Anthony Woodley, is science-fiction, pure and simple, and I went into the feature with little-to-no knowledge of what it was about or what to expect.
The film stars Billy Clarke (Hunger), Luke Healy (The Football Factory), Joshua Mayes-Cooper and, with a small role, Bernard Hill (Lord of the Rings). The cast, though mostly people I wasn’t much aware of prior to seeing this, are all very good and their performances are sturdy. Billy Clarke, who plays Graham, is particularly excellent in his role. Unsympathetic and sometimes just plain contemptible, he is a bizarre character that we discover more about as the film proceeds.
The story is captivating, an alternative past where the World is being run on the power of steam. We follow a...
- 9/16/2013
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
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