Elvis (2022) Review
Elvis (2022) rates 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Austin Butler is genuinely extraordinary and the film around him is narrated by his manager, edited at about four cuts a second for the first hour, and structured as…
Filming Location: Australia
Films in this library shot in Australia, a production base with its own industry and a landscape that doubles widely. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
AustraliaThe Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003) Review
The Matrix sequels rate 5 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Shot back to back and released six months apart, they answer questions the first film was stronger for leaving open, and they contain two of the best action…
AustraliaThe Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) Review
The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002) rates 2 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A hundred million dollars was spent on a lunar nightclub comedy that took about four and a half million worldwide, which is among the worst…
AustraliaPirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) and Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) Review
The later Pirates films rate 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. On Stranger Tides cost four hundred and ten million dollars, which made it the most expensive film ever made, and Dead Men Tell No Tales cost two…
AustraliaGods of Egypt (2016) Review
Gods of Egypt (2016) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A hundred and forty million dollars of genuine visual ambition attached to a script nobody appears to have argued with. Gerard Butler is the only person on…
AustraliaGhost Ship (2002) Review
Ghost Ship (2002) rates 4 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A salvage crew boards a liner missing since 1962. The first twenty seconds are among the best in modern horror and the remaining eighty minutes cannot follow them.
AustraliaMad Max: Fury Road (2015) Review
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A two-hour chase that explains an entire world without a line of exposition. The fourth film in a series, the best one by a distance, and…
AustraliaThe Babadook (2014)
Jennifer Kent's 2014 Australian grief horror. Essie Davis as widowed mother.
AustraliaMoulin Rouge! (2001)
Baz Luhrmann's 2001 jukebox musical. Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor in turn-of-century Paris.
AustraliaFortress (1992)
Gordon's 1992 SF prison action film. B-movie premise, A-movie commitment from Gordon.
AustraliaBeneath Hill 60 (2010)
Beneath Hill 60 is an Australian war film about a part of the First World War nobody talks about. Brendan Cowell plays Captain.
AustraliaSan Andreas (2015)
San Andreas is a Dwayne Johnson disaster movie. Johnson plays Ray Gaines, a Los Angeles Fire Department rescue pilot whose helicopter and skill set turn out to be exactly what is needed when a magnitude nine earthquake destroys California.