DVD Times (Free subscription) | 01/05/2009
Cinema Review: It's big, brash and it's in British cinemas now. But is Baz Luhrmann's Australia a hit or a miss? Gary Couzens gives his verdict.
Hindu (Free subscription) | 01/02/2009
The queen of Elizabeth may have tendered a formal apology for the Jalianwala Bagh Massacre by General O’ Dior some years ago, but has it changed the life of the families who lost lives, even the generations? The Australian Prime Minister ...
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 01/02/2009
Australia , is based on fictitious storyline derived from Australian history. It is undoubtedly grandiose in scale but the form and content tend towards extreme kitsch!
rediff Movies (Free subscription) | 12/31/2008
Australia is still a movie that deserves to be watched once on the big screen. Unfortunately, it doesn't go on to demand that repeated viewing that drove Titanic to become the biggest movie in the history of recorded box office collections.
FILMdetail (Free subscription) | 12/26/2008
NATIONAL RELEASES Australia (Fox): An epic story set in northern Australia before World War II, about an English aristocrat (Nicole Kidman) who inherits a ranch and teams up with a stock-man (Hugh Jackman) in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. Directed by Baz Luhrmann, it is an ambitious project taking a variety of [...]
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Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 12/24/2008
Pompous Rather Than Majestic Everyone knows Baz Luhrmann doesn’t make ordinary, conventional films, but Australia is probably a far bigger cinematic ambition than his previous niche films. Films are not about formulas, so it’s impossible to be its own individual creation and at the same time please everybody. In Australia’s case, it’s a romance, a comedy, [...]
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 12/23/2008
Luhrmann's epic is a definitive example of style over substance, writes
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/22/2008
Australia 1 star Director: Baz Luhrmann With: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Brandon Walters, David Wenham 165 mins, cert 12A Something strange happened to my face shortly after the beginning of Baz Luhrmann's excruciating new wartime romance epic, starring Nicole Kidman as the posh English Lady Sarah who travels out to Australia in 1940, and Hugh "Russell Crowe is not available" Jackman as the bit...
A Blog Next Door (Free subscription) | 12/17/2008
Australia Directed by Baz Luhrmann Written by Baz Luhrmann, Stuart Beattie, Ronald Hardwood & Richard Flannagan Starring: Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Brandon Walters, David Wenham & David Gulpilil How do you follow a threequel of sorts ( Strickly Ballroom, william shakespeare's romeo+juliet and Moulin Rouge! ) with a film so confident/ambitious you've named it after an entire country? Well, if you're...
Famecrawler (Free subscription) | 12/15/2008
You may have noticed that David Wenham has been absent from the media blitz that is the Australia promotion tour. Okay, you may not have noticed. Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman take up a lot of spotlight. It is rumored that Wenham has not joined the promotion because he and Kate Agnew have welcomed a baby girl. Millie is their second child and was born, according to sources, two weeks ago. Congrats!...
Aceshowbiz.com (Free subscription) | 12/15/2008
' 300 ' creator, Frank Miller, slammed down speculation that the next ' 300 ' movie to be made will pick up a prequel story to the Greek warriors movie.
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 12/15/2008
AN organisation that represents small businesses in Essex has given its backing to a report which calls for major improvements to the county's transport network.
Celebrity Baby Blog (Free subscription) | 12/14/2008
Snapper Media/Splash News Online Australian actor David Wenham and his partner Kate Agnew welcomed their second child, daughter Millie, during the last week of November. No further details are known, but the little girl was welcomed at home by her sister Eliza Jane, 5. The Lord of the Rings star...
Celebrity Baby Scoop (Free subscription) | 12/12/2008
Australian actor David Wenham, of Lord of The Rings fame, and his partner Kate Agnew welcomed their second child, daughter Millie, two weeks ago! The new baby joins big sister Eliza Jane, who turned 6 in October. David joined Hugh Jackman on-screen for the second time in this year’s epic film Australia (the two of them [...]
