The Babadook (2014)
Jennifer Kent's 2014 Australian grief horror. Essie Davis as widowed mother.
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.
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.
AustraliaShang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) Review
Tony Leung's career-best Wenwu, Hong Kong-influenced martial arts choreography, the Phase 4 entry that demonstrated the alternative. The 6.5 reflects honest evaluation based on what the available material shows, the broader critical reception, and the documented commercial response.
AustraliaThe Wolverine (2013) Review
James Mangold's first Wolverine film. Japan setting, bullet train sequence, the foundation that led to Logan.
AustraliaThor: Love and Thunder (2022) Review
The completion of Thor's degradation from Shakespearean prince to comedic buffoon. Mjolnir transfers to Jane Build, Christian Bale's Gorr wasted.
AustraliaX-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) Review
Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber's underrated Sabretooth, and the Deadpool handling that damaged the property for years. The 8.5 reflects honest evaluation of the film that proved interconnected superhero cinema could function at scale and the entry that established the commercial…
AustraliaThor: Ragnarok (2017) Review
Taika Waititi's tonal pivot that broke the Thor character and signaled the MCU's slide into decorative comedy. The 6 reflects honest evaluation of a film that is funny in its individual moments but represents a structural betrayal of the Thor…
AustraliaDark City (1998) Review
Dark City is the most underrated film in the history of science fiction cinema. It arrived in 1998, one year before The Matrix, explored several of the same fundamental questions about manufactured reality and the nature of consciousness, and was…
AustraliaThe Matrix (1999) Review
The Wachowskis accomplished something that almost never happens in blockbuster cinema: they made a philosophy lecture into one of the most viscerally entertaining action films ever made, and the philosophy and the action are the same thing. This review is…