Star: Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Clayton Watson, Nathan Phillips, Jake Ryan, Martin Dingle Wall | Written and Directed by Blair Moore
Chess is ruthless: you’ve got to be prepared to kill people – Nigel Short
That quote opens the new Aussie thriller Kane, the camera focusing on Abe playing a game. In voiceover Abe’s driver, Benny tells us a few things. Abe is an old-school gangster, all about loyalty and honour. He also has dissociative identity disorder more commonly known as multiple personalities, and as he’ll mention shortly, he’s off his meds. He also tells us that Abe’s opponent is Frankie, a former member of his outfit who is now his rival for control of the city’s underworld. A rivalry that has turned bloody
From here writer/director Blair Moore (Canadian Psycho) lets Benny tell the story of the past twenty-four hours in flashback as he’s being interrogated by the police,...
Chess is ruthless: you’ve got to be prepared to kill people – Nigel Short
That quote opens the new Aussie thriller Kane, the camera focusing on Abe playing a game. In voiceover Abe’s driver, Benny tells us a few things. Abe is an old-school gangster, all about loyalty and honour. He also has dissociative identity disorder more commonly known as multiple personalities, and as he’ll mention shortly, he’s off his meds. He also tells us that Abe’s opponent is Frankie, a former member of his outfit who is now his rival for control of the city’s underworld. A rivalry that has turned bloody
From here writer/director Blair Moore (Canadian Psycho) lets Benny tell the story of the past twenty-four hours in flashback as he’s being interrogated by the police,...
- 11/10/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Essie Davis was presenting Play School before she took a lead role in the Australian psychological horror that took Sundance by storm
With a fiery determination, Jennifer Kent gave up her roles in TV dramas such as The Murder Call and decided to make her own films. As a child, as soon as I could read and write, I wrote short stories and plays, the Brisbane-born writer-director says. I was about seven when I put on my first play: wrote, directed and acted in it. This was a natural desire for me, a compulsion. I did it until I auditioned for [Sydney drama school] Nida."
After an extended stint acting on television, she grew bored telling other peoples stories and, following a work-experience stint with Lars Von Trier on Dogville, remembered why shed always harboured a desire to tell fanciful yarns.
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With a fiery determination, Jennifer Kent gave up her roles in TV dramas such as The Murder Call and decided to make her own films. As a child, as soon as I could read and write, I wrote short stories and plays, the Brisbane-born writer-director says. I was about seven when I put on my first play: wrote, directed and acted in it. This was a natural desire for me, a compulsion. I did it until I auditioned for [Sydney drama school] Nida."
After an extended stint acting on television, she grew bored telling other peoples stories and, following a work-experience stint with Lars Von Trier on Dogville, remembered why shed always harboured a desire to tell fanciful yarns.
Continue reading...
- 5/20/2014
- by Ed Gibbs
- The Guardian - Film News
Jennifer Kent is an actress and director best known for Murder Call, Babe: Pig in the City and The Well. That's about to change with the upcoming release of The Babadook, a striking Australian horror movie that is getting rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival. It's about time we had a new horror icon to scare us witless, and judging by the atmospheric trailer, Jennifer Kent has delivered just that. We'll keep you informed of further release details, but for now just sit back and enjoy this tantalising first look. Synopsis: Six years after the violent death of her husband, Amelia (Essie Davis) is at a loss. She struggles to discipline her 'out of control' 6 year-old, Samuel (Noah Wiseman), a son she finds impossible to love. Samuel's dreams are plagued by a monster he believes is coming to kill them both. When a disturbing storybook called 'The Babadook...
- 1/22/2014
- 24framespersecond.net
Jennifer Kent is an actress and director best known for Murder Call, Babe: Pig in the City and The Well. That's about to change with the upcoming release of The Babadook, a striking Australian horror movie that is getting rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival. It's about time we had a new horror icon to scare us witless, and judging by the atmospheric trailer, Jennifer Kent has delivered just that. We'll keep you informed of further release details, but for now just sit back and enjoy this tantalising first look. Synopsis: Six years after the violent death of her husband, Amelia (Essie Davis) is at a loss. She struggles to discipline her 'out of control' 6 year-old, Samuel (Noah Wiseman), a son she finds impossible to love. Samuel's dreams are plagued by a monster he believes is coming to kill them both. When a disturbing storybook called 'The Babadook...
- 1/22/2014
- 24framespersecond.net
Television writer and script producer Denise Morgan passed away on Saturday 25 June. Denise’s funeral will be held today at the Palm Chapel of Macquarie Park Crematorium (corner of Delhi and Plassey Roads, Macquarie Park), from 2:15pm.
With a career spanning 30 years, Morgan wrote for many Australian dramas including; Blue Heelers, Stingers, Phoenix, Water Rats, Medivac, Murder Call, Flying Doctors, Home and Away, Embassy, A Country Practice, Prisoner and many others.
A member of the Australian Writers’ Guild, the Awg reflected on Morgan’s contribution to the industry in a statement by outgoing Awg President Tim Pye: “Those of us who worked with Denise over the years, and there are very many of us, will remember her as a talented writer and teacher with a hugely generous spirit, a quick wit and an infectious smile. She will endure in our memories for many years.
Vale Denise. You will be very sadly missed.
With a career spanning 30 years, Morgan wrote for many Australian dramas including; Blue Heelers, Stingers, Phoenix, Water Rats, Medivac, Murder Call, Flying Doctors, Home and Away, Embassy, A Country Practice, Prisoner and many others.
A member of the Australian Writers’ Guild, the Awg reflected on Morgan’s contribution to the industry in a statement by outgoing Awg President Tim Pye: “Those of us who worked with Denise over the years, and there are very many of us, will remember her as a talented writer and teacher with a hugely generous spirit, a quick wit and an infectious smile. She will endure in our memories for many years.
Vale Denise. You will be very sadly missed.
- 7/1/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
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