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Netflix to Turn Jeff Smith’s Bone into Animated Series

Netflix has announced that it has secured the rights to Jeff Smith’s award-winning and New York Times best-selling international comic book series, BONE, with plans to develop an animated kids series that follows the iconic Bone cousins on an adventure through a vast, uncharted desert and into a mysterious valley filled with wonderful and terrifying…

Screen Australia Announces $1.4 Million in Funding

Screen Australia has announced production funding for three feature films and one online project which will share in a total of $1.4 million. The slate includes supernatural drama You Won’t Be Alone from writer/director Goran Stolevski and producers Kristina Ceyton and Samantha Jennings from Causeway Films; and 6 Festivals, a drama centred on a group…

Cat Shit One

Director Kazuya Sasahara Starring Tom Flynn, Satoshi Hino, Will Prescott Rated M Score 6/6 A group of desert terrorists kidnap the civilians. A team of rabbit commando, Packy and Botasky, from the Carrot Mystery Service, a private military company, witness a murder of an escaping hostage. Afraid that the rest of the hostages will undergo…

The Furies

Director Tony D’Aquino Starring Airlie Dodds, Linda Ngo, Taylor Ferguson Rated R 18+ Score 5/6 The Furies is coming to cinemas on November 7 2019 A woman is kidnapped and finds herself an unwilling participant in a deadly game where women are hunted by masked men. Last year when I got the chance to talk…

Netflix Orders Ghee Happy

Netflix has greenlit a new animated preschool series, Ghee Happy, from Academy Award and Annie Award-nominated director-animator-illustrator Sanjay Patel. Patel is best known for his work on numerous Pixar films, such as Monsters Inc., Ratatouille, Cars, Toy Story 2 and The Incredibles 1 & 2. He directed the short animated film Sanjay’s Super Team, inspired…

Nekrotonic

Director Kiah Roache-Turner Starring Ben O’Toole, Monica Bellucci, Caroline Ford Rated MA Score 5/6 A man who discovers that he is part of a secret sect of magical beings who hunt down and destroy demons in the internet. I was a little excited when I came across this one because the Roache-Turner brothers wrote and…

Detective Pikachu

Director Rob Letterman Starring Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton Rated PG Score 4.5/6 When ace detective Harry Goodman goes mysteriously missing, prompting his 21-year-old son Tim to find out what happened. Aiding in the investigation is Harry’s former Pokémon partner, Detective Pikachu: a hilariously wise-cracking, adorable super-sleuth who is a puzzlement even to himself.…

Joker

Director Todd Phillips Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz Rated MA Score 5/6 During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure. Yes, I suppose this is a comic book movie. However, first…