Romantic comedies live and die by chemistry, sincerity and the audience’s willingness to believe two people are destined to collide at exactly the right moment. Finding Emily, the charming new feature from director Alicia MacDonald, understands that formula completely. Rather than trying to reinvent the genre, the film leans into what has always made these…
There’s a moment early in Finding Emily where sensitive musician Owen locks eyes with a stranger across a crowded student union, and suddenly the world feels charged with possibility. It’s a feeling director Alicia MacDonald spends the entirety of her warm, witty and deeply heartfelt romantic comedy chasing – that intoxicating blur between adolescence and…
Romantic comedies have always thrived on grand gestures, chance encounters and impossibly perfect timing, but Finding Emily is more interested in the messy uncertainty that exists between those moments. Produced by Working Title Films, the warm and disarmingly sincere new film follows sensitive musician Owen (Spike Fearn), whose attempt to reconnect with a girl he…
Like many a millennial, the original Mean Girls from 2004 holds a special place in the depths of my queer, quote-filled heart. It’s why there was sense of trepidation in coming into the new iteration of Tina Fey and Mark Waters’ high-school comedy. Now, I was actually fully aware that this particular version was a…
Ladies in Black could have been named “Shopgirl”, but that title was already taken. The film, set over the summer of 1959 in a Department store like David Jones, is a gentle story about some Australian women who are standing on the precipice of change; but often feels like the entrée before the main. This…
Apart from Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette, I haven’t seen much of director Sofia Coppola‘s work. Known for her filmmaking approach to humanize her subjects with unorthodox methods like gentle pathos, looking through different character points-of-views outside the norm and the use of anachronisms, Coppola has achieved a reputation of being a director that is…
Angourie Rice & Aaron McGrath, the stars of Jasper Jones (in cinemas now) sat down with The Iris’ Larry Heath to talk briefly about their upcoming film projects: Spider-Man Homecoming, which enters Angourie into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Beguilded, directed by Sofia Coppola & the new ABC series of Glitch. Jasper Jones is in…
The Iris’ Larry Heath sits down with Aaron McGrath & Angourie Rice to talk Jasper Jones‘ big screen adaptation. We find out if either of them have actually read the book, learn more about their roles in the film and talk about their experiences filming in Pemberton, WA. Jasper Jones hits Australian cinemas this Thursday,…
It has been a long time coming, but it is here. It is finally here. A brand-spanking new film by renowned action-maestro Shane Black. For those who don’t know, Shane Black is responsible for writing cult-classic 80’s/90’s films like Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Last Action Hero and The Monster…
