Travis Johnson

1 week ago | flicks.com.au | Clarisse Loughrey |Luke Buckmaster |Daniel Rutledge |Travis Johnson

Yesterday we announced the news that comedians Bret McKenzie (Flight of the Concords) and Aussie Hamish Blake (Hamish and Andy) are confirmed to star in the comedy Two Little Boys, which will begin filming in Southland in January 2011. The film will be directed by Robert Sarkies (man behind the great Out of the Blue, Scarfies) and is based on the dark comedy novel of the same name by his brother, Duncan Sarkies.

1 week ago | flicks.com.au | Luke Buckmaster |Daniel Rutledge |Travis Johnson

Clarisse Loughrey’s Show of the Week column spotlights a new show to watch or skip. This week: Charlie Brooker’s dystopian tech anthology Black Mirror is back with a new batch of eps. Does Black Mirror still have the power to scare us? A decade ago, it felt like an electric shock applied to the public consciousness: its anthology tales of pig-fucking prime ministers, clownish TV star dictators, and the dead resuscitated by AI were dark, cynical, but just plausible enough.

1 week ago | flicks.com.au | Clarisse Loughrey |Luke Buckmaster |Daniel Rutledge |Travis Johnson

Seth Rogen plays a newly-minted studio boss in Hollywood comedy series The Studio. While satirical, it’s also earnest and auteur-ish, writes Dominic Corry, with an appealing idealism about the power of movies. Into the long and sometimes glorious canon of fictional depictions of Hollywood comes Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s The Studio, a sometimes breezy, sometimes frenetic, often funny exploration of some of the most champagne-iest problems ever faced.

2 weeks ago | flicks.com.au | Rory Doherty |Travis Johnson |Luke Buckmaster |Cat Woods

With somber tones, evocative imagery, and a morally complex leading performance from Cillian Murphy, Small Things Like These is a deep-thinking and engrossing drama, writes Luke Buckmaster. Small Things Like These leaves absolutely no doubt that Cillian Murphy looks great in front of a log fire, face illuminated by flickering flames.

2 weeks ago | flicks.com.au | Luke Buckmaster |Daniel Rutledge |Travis Johnson

The Brutalist is one of those films that will set up a permanent residence in your head: once seen, never forgotten. Here’s six reasons why you shouldn’t miss Brady Corbet’s epic Oscar-nominated period drama, which has “future classic” written all over it. The story follows Adrien Brody’s László Tóth, a Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor who emigrates to America in the 1940s, hoping, wishing, needing to start again.