Simon de Bruyn
Australia & NZ Editor; Melbourne, Australia

Simon de Bruyn has been writing about Australian & New Zealand films for 5 years, and in that time he's seen the region grow into a white-hot crucible for amazing genre cinema. He also works for Twitch-associated company XYZ Films as an acquisitions consultant.

St Kilda Film Festival Partners With SXSW
Australia's greatest short film festival, the St Kilda Film Festival, is gearing up for 2013 and in preparation has announced that this year it will partner with the SXSW Film Festival to deliver several sidebar programs of incredible awesomeness and... More »
  

THE ACT OF KILLING, OUTRAGE BEYOND, REAR WINDOW Among 2013 Sydney Film Festival First Titles
The three films in the above headline plus Richard Raaphorst's Frankenstein's Army have just made the Sydney Film Festival in June a necessary trip north for me, with the festival unveiling these plus a slew of other anticipated titles in... More »
  

David Fincher's 20,000 LEAGUES To Shoot Down Under
It's official: David Fincher is coming to Australia. Just when I thought the salivating among film fanatics had reached its zenith due to the antipodean visit of Paul Thomas Anderson last year, along comes news that the Social Network, Fight Club and... More »
  

Australia's Hoyts Distribution Becomes StudioCanal
In what is largely a formal change after the French production and distribution company acquired Hoyts Distribution in July last year, the Australian and New Zealand distributor will now be known officially as StudioCanal. Hopefully this also means a step... More »
  

ERRORS OF THE HUMAN BODY Teases Weird Science With Another Haunting Poster. Updated With Super-Epic Size Art!
I'm absolutely loving the poster campaign for German-Australian sci-fi thriller Errors of the Human Body. The North American and Australian key art so far has been stylish, classy, minimalistic but always evocative and haunting. This latest poster continues the classy, haunting... More »
  

Gore Hounds Rejoice. HEMLOCK GROVE Clip Reveals Bloody Brutality
Maybe Netflix really are the new kingmakers in TV-style series. After delivering the epic remake of BBC series House of Cards to hungry binge-viewing audiences in February, the streaming service is gearing up Hemlock Grove, its new supernatural show executive... More »
  

Kickstart This: Help Find Weng Weng, the Filipino Midget B-Movie Cult Hero
Australian filmmaker Andrew Leavold is on a quest. For the past 6 years and armed with a camera he's been on this quest, searching for Filipino cult movie superstar Weng Weng, and shooting a documentary along the way. Now, armed... More »
  

SHOPPING Trailer Brings Out The BOY
Keep repeating: this is not Boy, this is not Boy. The trailer for New Zealand Sundance-selected film Shopping has dropped online, and it's obvious where distributor Madman got the inspiration for it, with clear head nods to Kiwi smash hit... More »
  

Timo Tjahjanto Reveals Blood-Spattered Kazuki Kitamura In New KILLERS Image
I don't know when we'll see it but Killers, the next collaboration from Indonesian horror duo The Mo Brothers, is getting closer. I can feel it grating in my bones. And to whet our appetite until we see some footage... More »
  

Peek Behind The Scenes Of Nash Edgerton's BEAR
A couple weeks back we showed you Bear, Nash Edgerton's awesome short film sequel to his mega successful festival gem Spider (there's a third one to be made allegedly) and now we have the making-of video which reveals the tricks... More »
  

Help A Zombie Kangaroo Kick You In The Face
We love things kicking us in the face at Twitch, and we especially love when they are preposterous zombie animals that should have been unleashed into the wide world before now. Even better when the main character is a guy named Todd,... More »
  

Sam Raimi To Direct Greg Kinnear As Ramshackle Lawyer In TV Pilot RAKE
Television, meet Sam Raimi. Yep, after delivering critically-questionable box office hit Oz, the Great and Powerful to cinemas, news has come that Raimi will direct a TV pilot for Fox - the US adaptation of hit Australian TV series Rake,... More »
  

Oscar Isaac To Lead Ariel Kleiman's PARTISAN For Warp Films
Warp Films are crushing it in independent cinema right now. In addition to the UK company constantly churning out modern classics such as This is England, Kill List, Down Terrace and Berberian Sound Studio, its Australian division has produced Snowtown... More »
  

WASTELANDER PANDA Is Coming For You. New Series Teasers Begin
Last year we found out about a strange new hybrid of awesome, a webseries about a Max Rockatansky-style panda wandering the blasted post-apocalyptic landscape. A prologue for this series, Wastelander Panda, was launched online, and after an overwhelming vote of... More »
  

Baz Luhrmann's THE GREAT GATSBY To Open The 2013 Cannes Film Festival
With the exception of his bawdy, brash musical Moulin Rouge, I'm a Baz Lurhmann tragic. Strictly Ballroom is one of my favourite movies and even Australia has a certain charm, if you let it wear you down to its level.... More »
  

James Frecheville Joins Tom Hardy In Michael Roskam's BULLHEAD Follow-up
David Michôd's golden goose that was Animal Kingdom keeps paying dividends for all its stars. Animal Kingdom lead James Frecheville followed-up that crime thriller by playing a young toyboy in Sundance cougar-romance Two Mothers, and now comes news that he'll be joining... More »
  

Sarah Snook Cast Opposite Ethan Hawke In Spierig Bros' Sci-fi PREDESTINATION
Luminous Aussie actress Sarah Snook is ascending fast. After filming a supporting role in apocalyptic thriller These Final Hours and being the best thing about Not Suitable for Children last year, Deadline reports Snook has been cast opposite Ethan Hawke... More »
  

Australian Soccer Indie TOTAL FOOTBALL Available To Watch Online
Australia is producing a surfeit of sporting movies at the moment. Stellar cricket comedy bromance Save Your Legs has opened across the country, while Aussie rules football drama Blinder is waiting in the wings (or half-back flank) for its March... More »
  

Like It Or Not, PROMETHEUS 2 Is Coming
One of the most divisive films of last year was Ridley Scott's Prometheus. Hey, only kidding - after the Phantom Menace-eqsue want-it-to-be-good spark faded from our eyes, most of us had to admit it wasn't very good and didn't make... More »
  

Ewan McGregor Rocks A Dirty Mullet In First Look At SON OF A GUN
With production gearing up this week in Perth, Western Australia for Julius Avery's directorial debut Son of a Gun, the film's lead Ewan McGregor has posted a couple of photos of the badass look he'll sport in the crime thriller. Looking... More »
  
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