Interview: Caitlin Stasey & Deniz Akdeniz of TOMORROW, WHEN THE WAR BEGAN

In the midst of all the explosions, car chases and shootouts that make Tomorrow, When the War Began one of the biggest Australian films in years are two emerging  Melbourne actors, Caitlin Stasey and Deniz Akdeniz.

Stasey, the 20-year-old actress who is best known as Rachel Kinski on TV’s Neighbours, stars as country teenager Ellie Linton in this adaptation of teen fiction author John Marsden’s best-selling novel. 21-year-old [...]

Interview: Vincenzo Natali, writer/director of SPLICE

Independent American-Canadian filmmaker Vincenzo Natali first burst on to the scene in 1997 with the surreal, low-budget psychological thriller Cube.  The film gathered such a large cult following, it spawned two sequels, Cube 2: Hypercube and Cube Zero, neither of which Natali returned to direct. Instead, he began developing the story for an original sci-fi horror film that would eventually become Splice.

A throwback to classic monster movies such as Frankenstein and The Fly, Splice follows [...]

Interview: Luke Ford, co-star of ANIMAL KINGDOM

Emerging Australian actor Luke Ford, 29, kick started his career by guest starring in a number of Aussie dramas such as Water Rats and McLeod’s Daughters, eventually landing him a leading role alongside Brendan Fraser in the 2008 Hollywood blockbuster The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.  He has returned home to co-star in Animal Kingdom — the critically acclaimed crime drama from first-time director David Michôd – playing the youngest of 3 brothers in a Melbourne criminal family being [...]

Interview: Nick Giannopoulos, star of THE KINGS OF MYKONOS

Greek-Australian actor/comedian Nick Giannopoulos, who shot to fame after the hit Aussie comedy The Wog Boy in 2000, not only took the stigma out of the derogatory nickname ‘Wog’, he subsequently made a prolific career out of it. Ten years after The Wog Boy became the 13^th Australian film to ever to break $10 million mark at the local box office, Giannopoulos has done something that few Aussie filmmakers ever get the chance to; he’s made a sequel. [...]

Interview: Jeremy Sims, director of ‘Beneath Hill 60′

Australian actor-turned-director Jeremy Sims first got his first taste in filmmaking in 2006 with Last Train to Freo, a taught low-budget thriller set almost entirely in the confines of a train carriage. Producer Bill Leimbach, while looking for a director who could make great use of limited space and a limited budget for an Australian war epic he was planning,  saw Sims’ debut and knew he was the right man for the job. That film became Beneath Hill [...]

Interview: Jan Kounen, director of ‘Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky’

Dutch-born French film director Jan Kounen has come a long way from filming music clips for synth-pop act Erasure. Touring his film Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky as part of the 21st Alliance Francaise French Film Festival, he talked to Cut Print Review about the fashion empress, anti-romance and comics.