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Tom Ford‘s Nocturnal Animals is a beautiful and nasty piece of work. Ford’s adaptation of the late Austin Wright‘s Tony & Susan has elements of a thriller, but first and foremost, it’s a love story. An often unsettling and tragic love story. Ford’s latest actually shares a few similarities with A Single Man, but it’s a much bigger and […]

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Opening with a titillating full-frontal act of fornication in front of a group of champagne guzzling, celery-stick chomping upper-class lady types, X seemingly prepares you for the ensuing unflinching proceedings that lay ahead. But contrary to the beautifully blunt title this is no exposé of the seedy underworld of Sydney’s red light district – director Jon Hewitt is more interested in setting up some suspenseful surprises that give this film more of a instinctual killer thriller narrative thrust.

Not that we should be surprised. Hewitt is a film-maker infamous in Oz for smart serial killer thrillers like Redball and Acolytes and the sexually tinged Darklovestory. But before that there was his audacious Melbourne-set vampire killing, all-screwing and drug-taking 1992 debut Bloodlust. So there were always sordid hints in this film-maker’s make-up.

The narrative for his latest follows the final exploits of 30-year old upper-class call girl Holly (Viva Bianca) who,...

The benchmark for any decent film festival is the level of cinematic diversity it offers. A good mix of entertaining, provocative, intriguing and possibly even perverse selections from around the globe with a few classic retrospectives thrown in for good measure that inform, intrigue, delight, outrage and provoke thoughtful debate is all that one can hope for in a well compiled line-up. Thankfully Brisbane’s 20th anniversary international film festival, which commences on the 3rd November, appears to have delivered that desired ensemble.

While commencing with the Aussie premieres of Joe Cornish’s UK genre-bender Attack the Block and closing with Pedro Almodovar’s psychologically intense genre hybrid The Skin I Live In, and with a few entries bleeding over from this year’s Sydney Film Festival (Martha Marcy May Marlene, Tyrannosaur and Take Shelter amongst others), there’s more than enough fresh material in between to make the trip to another Aussie state worthwhile.

IFC Midnight has a long, proud tradition of bringing its viewers B-rated, smutty drive-in fodder that borders on the unwatchable (The Human Centipede and Antichrist, for example) and now it's turned its eyes down under.

The Australian genre thriller X, directed by Jon Hewitt (who has directed four other films with names like Darklovestory and Bloodlust), follows two ladies of the night dealing with "love, chance, escape and the oldest profession in the world... as experienced by two beautiful women on one ugly night that will change their lives forever."

IMDb tagline? A jaded call-girl. A fledgling hooker. The night from hell. I'm sold.

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With the Toronto International Film Festival only weeks away, we caught up with Jon Hewitt, director of Acolytes, who revealed to Bloody-Disgusting his plans for his next two horror features, along with his dreams and desires for some main stream titles. Read on for the skinny and check out Acolytes at the "Midnight Madness" portion of the Tiff this September. "Im keen to see what might turn up out of Hollywood" Hewitt tells Bloody-Disgusting. "Id love to direct the remake of Battle Royale, or William Castles The Tingler." "X is a thriller about two prostitutes who go through a night from hell (the second film in my Kings Cross trilogy - Darklovestory being the first)."...

School bullies, who doesn't remember them? Some people would get beaten up, their lunch money stolen or intimidated into doing the bully's homework. They got off easy. The bullies in my home town pulled guns, cut ya or pushed you down stairs. If only the weaker kids had some kind of help to take care of the bastards...

Speaking of which, Twitch landed the first trailer for Jon Hewitt's Australian horror film Acolytes. The Darklovestory director's latest picture deals with three teenagers who enlist the aid of a serial killer (via blackmail, of course, probably due to shortage of funds) to take out a school bully. Oh, this won't backfire on the kids at all!

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