I chatted with director Jon Favreau in Sydney about his CGI 3D masterpiece The Jungle Book for Disney with the only live action from Neel Sethi – the actor playing Mowgli. Here are the trailers side by side – for Favreau’s 2016 version + Disney’s 1967 animated...
On April Fool’s Day, private health cover premiums rose again – this time 5-6%. BUPA shafted me with my annual price gouge – this time 7.2% – with a healthy dose of ‘put up and shut up’: There are 4 industries that should not have shareholders: Health...
A Belgian, a Persian, a Maori, an American, a Samoan and I walk into a bar… It’s called The Ugly Mermaid (yep)… At Le Vasa on Upolu Island, Samoa, the chairs, roof and all fittings are tied together with twine spun by the locals making it look and feel like Gilligan’s...
Big thanks to the creative people and agencies I worked with in 2015. It’s been a great year full of inspiring and fun productions and I’m available for more work from Feb 1st 2016. I also have proposals on a slate that includes feature films, TV series and other...
The Revenant is a beautiful, brutal revenge masterpiece that will attract awards attention for many of the cast and crew, particularly the talented trio who gave us the awards-magnet, Birdman: Iñárritu + Chivo + Mirrione (director, cinematographer, editor). Their...
Declaring a herd of cows as a national threat sounds like an absurdist notion from Stanley Kubrick’s classic Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb (1964) but it’s a true story. The Wanted 18 is a 75 minute documentary that tells the story...
