Breakups and bushfires derail festivities in this overly sentimental film, starring a likable Heather Mitchell as the matriarch trying to hold it all together
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A family get-together in the middle of nowhere in stinking hot weather, with bonbons and pavlova and a car out front attached to a trailer – yep, this is a bloody ’Strayan Christmas movie.
Expect gentle giggles rather than guffaws from Stan’s yuletide offering from the director Stef Smith and the writer Tegan Higginbotham: an upbeat Chrissy-gone-wrong dramedy that works best in a modest key, hinged on interpersonal dynamics and situational humour, rather than the poignantly and powerfully atmospheric work it longs to be and falls well short of.
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A family get-together in the middle of nowhere in stinking hot weather, with bonbons and pavlova and a car out front attached to a trailer – yep, this is a bloody ’Strayan Christmas movie.
Expect gentle giggles rather than guffaws from Stan’s yuletide offering from the director Stef Smith and the writer Tegan Higginbotham: an upbeat Chrissy-gone-wrong dramedy that works best in a modest key, hinged on interpersonal dynamics and situational humour, rather than the poignantly and powerfully atmospheric work it longs to be and falls well short of.
- 11/22/2023
- by Luke Buckmaster
- The Guardian - Film News
Tegan Higginbotham.
Screen Australia is providing more than $400,000 in story development funding for 16 projects including feature films, television and online series, featuring such talent as Bruna Papandrea, Nick Verso, Priscilla Cameron, Lisa Shaunessy, Anthony Mullins, Kodie Bedford and Tegan Higginbotham.
The slate includes The Agency, a musical comedy about moral corruption in the advertising industry, comedic horror Gnomes centered on grudge-bearing garden gnomes in a fictional regional town, and the feature Misfit, which looks at a woman who suffers from an identity disorder.
Eleven projects were funded through the Generate fund, two via the Premium fund and three through the legacy development program which has been discontinued.
Head of development Nerida Moore said: “The new development guidelines have now been in action for five months. We drastically reduced eligibility barriers and will now fund projects for any screen platform. We’ve had a fantastic response from the industry and the...
Screen Australia is providing more than $400,000 in story development funding for 16 projects including feature films, television and online series, featuring such talent as Bruna Papandrea, Nick Verso, Priscilla Cameron, Lisa Shaunessy, Anthony Mullins, Kodie Bedford and Tegan Higginbotham.
The slate includes The Agency, a musical comedy about moral corruption in the advertising industry, comedic horror Gnomes centered on grudge-bearing garden gnomes in a fictional regional town, and the feature Misfit, which looks at a woman who suffers from an identity disorder.
Eleven projects were funded through the Generate fund, two via the Premium fund and three through the legacy development program which has been discontinued.
Head of development Nerida Moore said: “The new development guidelines have now been in action for five months. We drastically reduced eligibility barriers and will now fund projects for any screen platform. We’ve had a fantastic response from the industry and the...
- 11/21/2018
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Rising Australian comedian Eurydice Dixon was raped and murdered on Tuesday night in Melbourne, according to CNN.
The 22-year-old was walking home from a performance that night through a popular park but never made it home, according to multiple reports. The BBC reported that 19-year-old Jaymes Todd was charged with her rape and murder after handing himself over to police. According to law enforcement, the two did not know each other.
The Age newspaper reported that she sent a Facebook message to a friend just a few meters from her home, writing, “I’m almost home safe, Hbu [how about you].”
Also Read: Jackson Odell, 'iCarly' and 'The Goldbergs' Actor, Dies at 20
Her body was found on a soccer field around 2:40 a.m. on Wednesday. Todd will head to court on October 3, according to The Age.
Her friend Tony Magnuson told The Age that he was the last...
The 22-year-old was walking home from a performance that night through a popular park but never made it home, according to multiple reports. The BBC reported that 19-year-old Jaymes Todd was charged with her rape and murder after handing himself over to police. According to law enforcement, the two did not know each other.
The Age newspaper reported that she sent a Facebook message to a friend just a few meters from her home, writing, “I’m almost home safe, Hbu [how about you].”
Also Read: Jackson Odell, 'iCarly' and 'The Goldbergs' Actor, Dies at 20
Her body was found on a soccer field around 2:40 a.m. on Wednesday. Todd will head to court on October 3, according to The Age.
Her friend Tony Magnuson told The Age that he was the last...
- 6/15/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Back: Tegan Higginbotham & Tom Walker, Middle: Steen Raskopoulos, Cal Wilson, Rhys Darby & Susie Youssef, Front: Tommy Little & Bridie Connell (Photo credit: Foxtel/Kelly Gardner)
The Comedy Channel has revealed the cast of its local adaptation of the popular improv comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway?.
The lineup boasts the likes of Rhys Darby (Flight of the Conchords, Hunt for the Wilderpeople), alongside comedy festival favourites Cal Wilson, Tegan Higginbotham, Susie Youssef, Steen Raskopoulos and newcomers Bridie Connell and Tom Walker.
The ten-part series is currently filming in front of live audiences in Melbourne, led by host Tommy Little.
Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia will air later this year on The Comedy Channel.
It is executive produced by Kevin Whyte, Guesswork Television, and Craig Campbell, +61 TV. .
The Comedy Channel has revealed the cast of its local adaptation of the popular improv comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway?.
The lineup boasts the likes of Rhys Darby (Flight of the Conchords, Hunt for the Wilderpeople), alongside comedy festival favourites Cal Wilson, Tegan Higginbotham, Susie Youssef, Steen Raskopoulos and newcomers Bridie Connell and Tom Walker.
The ten-part series is currently filming in front of live audiences in Melbourne, led by host Tommy Little.
Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia will air later this year on The Comedy Channel.
It is executive produced by Kevin Whyte, Guesswork Television, and Craig Campbell, +61 TV. .
- 7/19/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
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