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Flotsam & Jetsam
12:47PM Jess McGuire | This is a brilliant commercial. Sure, it’s a little bit dated, but who cares? It totally makes me want to go to New Zealand. In fact, it appears to be demanding I travel to the land of the long white cloud. Because I own it, apparently. NEW ZEALAND IS MINE, I MUST GO THERE NOW! More »
Please Watch This New Zealand Tourism Commercial Immediately.
12:47PM Jess McGuire | This is a brilliant commercial. Sure, it’s a little bit dated, but who cares? It totally makes me want to go to New Zealand. In fact, it appears to be demanding I travel to the land of the long white cloud. Because I own it, apparently. NEW ZEALAND IS MINE, I MUST GO THERE NOW! More » 
Music
2:09PM Jess McGuire | Before we start, I want to hammer home to you that I am a big David Bowie fan. Love him. Saw him live at Glastonbury in 2000 when I was a fresh-faced nineteen year old who had just consumed mushrooms for the first time and handed the man my heart on a platter after his killer set. And although I’m certainly no expert when it comes to everything Davy Jones, I like to think I am fairly “switched on” when it comes to Bowie-related bits of trivia. So how is it that I completely missed the Australian content in his 80s video clips for so long? More »
Exploring The Australian Element Of David Bowie’s Video Clips (Part I)
2:09PM Jess McGuire | Before we start, I want to hammer home to you that I am a big David Bowie fan. Love him. Saw him live at Glastonbury in 2000 when I was a fresh-faced nineteen year old who had just consumed mushrooms for the first time and handed the man my heart on a platter after his killer set. And although I’m certainly no expert when it comes to everything Davy Jones, I like to think I am fairly “switched on” when it comes to Bowie-related bits of trivia. So how is it that I completely missed the Australian content in his 80s video clips for so long? More » 
Jonas Brothers Eager To Restore Baz Luhrmann To Greatness
4:25AM STV | The Jonas Brothers are nothing if not high-concept, making their ambitious plot to recruit down-on-his-luck auteur Baz Luhrmann the kind of cinch everyone can agree on. More »
Nicole Kidman Adds Her Voice To The ‘Australia’ Pile-On
3:50AM Kyle Buchanan | You don’t kick a dingo when he’s down (or maybe you do, to dislodge the baby from its jaws? We always forget), but Nicole Kidman has done just that by piling on the beleaguered Australia.
Baz Luhrmann Adapts to His New Role as ‘Black Hole of Cinema’
4:35AM STV | The aftermath of any disaster requires a period of quiet reflection followed by intense investigation. Or, if you’re as ambitious as Baz Luhrmann, you combine the two in one expanded whining binge to THR. More »Nicole Kidman A Terrible Actress? Say It Ain’t So, The Times!
12:08PM Jess McGuire | Baz Luhrmann’s Latest Epic TM Australia has finally premiered, and the reviews are trickling in!
Claire Sutherland from the Herald Sun loved it, calling it “a love letter to the Australian landscape and our history” and adding that “Australia has international blockbuster written all over it.” Meanwhile, over at The Age, Jim Schembri was somewhat less impressed, calling the film good but excessively lengthy and full of “Aussie cliches”. Both reviewers seemed happy enough with the performance of leading lady Nicole Kidman though.
But a reviewer for The Times over in the UK has positively slammed Our Nic!
Baz Luhrmann’s choice of Nicole Kidman to star in his latest epic movie Australia has been savaged by a British newspaper columnist.
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Baz Luhrmann Sends Modest Proposal For Multiplexes Not to Ruin ‘Australia’
4:50AM STV | For those early viewers still nursing lukewarm responses to Australia, Baz Luhrmann has a note making the rounds that hints your projectionist might be to blame. While it’s hardly uncommon for anal directors to personally attend to details of test screenings and premieres, a tipster has passed along something you don’t see every day: Luhrmann’s personal directions to theatre managers on how not to screw up his epic: More »
‘Australia’ is Reeeeally Long, and 6 Other Notable Lessons From the First U.S. Reviews
1:59AM STV | Stateside critics have finally seen Australia, and the reviews are in! Kind of, anyway; we’ve mostly been sorting through first impressions, rough blog sketches and less-then-soaring anti-summaries (”Some kind of lethargy virus had taken over my system,” wrote Jeffrey Wells), but we think we have enough to go on to figure out where Baz Luhrmann’s epic may sit among this fall’s most anticipated releases. Your one-stop cheat sheet follows the jump. More »
‘Australia’ Inches Closer As Baz Luhrmann Caves to New Ending
1:45AM STV | Not much has changed in the last week since industry observers filed a missing persons report on Australia; Baz Luhrmann’s $US130 million historical romance is still officially unfinished with only nine days to go before its homeland premiere and 16 days before it opens worldwide. Again, Baz, don’t hurry on our behalves, but! We learned a lot more over the weekend about those “mechanics of stotrytelling” so troubling the director in his quest to put his Nicole Kidman/Hugh Jackman epic to bed. And massive spoiler aside, it should make for a roiling eternity of second-guessing, DVD revisionism and studio-hating from Luhrmann loyalists. More »Baz Luhrmann’s Movie Epic “Australia” Will Be Premiering Down Under
1:20PM Jess McGuire | OH, I AM JUST ABOUT BURSTING WITH CINEMA-GOING EXCITEMENT! Baz Luhrmann’s much anticipated film Shtraya is ever so close to being played on big screens across the country – and as someone who forgot to see The House Bunny when it was released, I will not make the same mistake again. No longer will I miss out on cultural phenomenons due to absentmindedness and penny-pinching! Australia? It’s a date.
According to the press release, the Australian premiere of the film is going to be a massive countrywide party.
Today, Twentieth Century Fox Film Distributors announced that the Australian premiere of Baz Luhrmann’s epic Australia will take place on Tuesday 18th November in the film’s first shooting location, Sydney, with special screenings in shoot locations Darwin & Bowen on the same evening.
I hope the lovely lady who runs the Bowen pie shop (she was interviewed regularly on Red Symons’ 774 ABC breakfast radio show last year, and was absolutely delightful) gets a free ticket to the premiere. Don’t forget the little people, Baz – specifically the pie makers! More » 