Money Movers: unearthing a rare Australian noir
There’s a lot of justified hype about the period of Australian film from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties known as “Ozploitation”, when the creation of film funding bodies and the introduction of...
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Asia hands
In the early-nineties, I lived for several years in Vientiane, the sun bleached, run down capital of one of the more remote countries in Asia, Laos. One of my acquaintances in the small expatriate...
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The Empty Beach
One local blog I’ve been following for a while now is Permission to Kill, run by my mate, David Foster. Its main focus is all things espionage fiction and film related, but David also covers of on a...
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Blood Money and other Australian crime films you’ve probably never heard of
If you haven’t heard of the 1980 Australian film Bloody Money, don’t worry, you’d be in good company. Clocking in at just over 62 minutes, it’s an unpolished little gem of a heist film and almost...
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Stick with me son and I’ll make you a star: 5 great Bryan Brown roles
On a whim several weeks ago I re-watched the 1986 movie, F/X. Although largely forgotten now, F/X was a big deal at the time, at least here in Australia. This was mainly because it starred a local...
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Empty beaches: In search of Australia’s fictional private eyes
September 12 marked the 30th anniversary of the release of a little-known Australian crime movie, The Empty Beach. The film fared poorly upon release and is still unavailable on DVD — you’d have to...
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The heist always goes wrong, part 4: 10 more heist films you’ve never seen
To celebrate the re-release of my heist thriller, Gunshine State, by Down and Out books, it is time for another of my top 10 heist posts. This is my fourth post along the theme of ‘the heist always...
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A few thoughts on the passing of Peter Corris, the father of modern...
I suspect a lot of fans of contemporary Oz crime fiction, and more than a few of its current practitioners, may have forgotten or perhaps don’t even know the debt we all owe to Sydney based crime...
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A sit down with the Godfather: an interview with Peter Corris
As promised in my recent piece to mark the passing of Australian crime writer, Peter Corris, it gives me great pleasure to post a terrific, in-depth interview with the author that appeared in issue 14...
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10 great Australian westerns
To mark the UK release of The True History of the Kelly Gang (2019), Justin Kurzel’s bold reimagining of the sage one of Australia’s most famous myths, bushranger Ned Kelly, the British Film Institute...
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Parker on the screen #4: Slayground (1983)
SLAYGROUND, Peter Coyote, 1983, TM and copyright ©Universal Film Corp. All rights reserved Next in my series on Don Westlake aka Richard Stark’s criminal character of Parker on the screen is the 1983...
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