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Far, far away from the clutches of Courtney Love, angry Kurt Cobain fans, and Brian Williams, Saturday Night Live failure Lana Del Ray went all the way to Australia to cover Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box.” Which is strange, because she wasn’t supposed to go on tour till October.
You know what? Good for her. Read More
Head Wikileaker and house arrestee Julian Assange has been pondering a run for the Australian Senate. Before you even quirk an eyebrow at the prospect of a “Senator Assange,” note that a recent survey by Australian Labor Party pollsters indicates Mr. Assange could garner nearly 25% of the vote. Agence France-Presse reports members of “the left-wing Greens party were most likely to be pro-Assange, with 39 percent saying they would vote for him.” Read More
If you think roughly three-quarters of Hollywood’s output arrives between now and Christmas day, that’s probably because it does. Or at least it seems like it does. Thanksgiving marks the official kick-off of the holiday season, and there’s something at the box office for everyone in your family. Here’s a handy guide to the Thanksgiving Read More
Australia
Running time 165 minutes
Written by Baz Luhrmann, Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood and Richard Flanagan
Directed by Baz Luhrmann
Starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Brandon Walters, Bryan Brown, David Wenham
Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, from his own original story, and a script written by Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood and Richard Read More
Australia
Running time 165 minutes
Written by Stuart Beattie, Ronald Harwood, Richard Flanagan and Baz Luhrmann
Directed by Baz Luhrmann
Starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Brandon Walters, Bryan Brown, David Wenham
As year-end movies go, I had high hopes for Australia. I really wanted to like this one. In Read More
“Hugh [Jackman] is so at peace with himself—like a John Wayne or a Clint Eastwood—and she’s like electricity. Together, they are such a classic couple. And, well, he is the sexiest man alive!” said Australia director Baz Luhrmann, glancing in the direction of actors Nicole Kidman and Mr. Jackman (who People magazine recently deemed the Read More
Milk
We only needed to see the kick-ass trailer for Milk to slot this Gus Van Sant film straight into Best Picture contention. After all, it has all of those gold statuette elements: a true story—of California’s first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk, who was murdered alongside San Francisco Read More
“Hair is an accessory,” declared Kerry Warn, the designer responsible for the larger-than-life looks on these pages, and the man in charge of Nicole Kidman’s mane on all her films for the past decade, including The Hours, Cold Mountain, Stepford Wives and the upcoming Australia.
“I think people tend not to enjoy their hair Read More
If you’re looking for a meme to grab onto during the upcoming Oscar season, try this: in an effort to make pre-established release dates, studios are rushing their prestige films to the detriment of the product. And we thought that only happened with summer tent poles!
We first noticed a month ago when The Read More
