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Monday, May 8, 2023, Melbourne, Australia - Forte Corp is proud to announce the addition of highly respected financial executive Dragan Savic to its expanding team of film and television industry experts. Savic has commenced his new
Adelaide actor Genevieve Mooy had the larger-than-life Celeste Barber in her acting class. It was the start of a beautiful relationship
Adelaide’s Genevieve Mooy builds on a long career on stage and screen playing mum to Celeste Barber’s wellness-obsessed character in Netflix’s new dramedy Wellmania.
Never Too Late (M, 98 mins) Directed by Mark Lamprell ***½ Never Too Late is the latest in a line of old-codgers-gone-rogue movies we've all sat through recently. But it sure ain't the worst. Our heroes are four veterans of the Vietnam War – all seasoned prison camp escapees – who now find themselves living in the same retirement home in Adelaide. When one of their number learns that the love of his life – who he's never quite got around to telling that fact – is about to be sent away for months, a plan is concocted to break out and belatedly pursue true love.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this story contains discussion of people who have died. You could be forgiven for assuming that having every single cinema and film set closed for over six months would render any list of this year’s best Australian movies a slightly truncated one, the only possible upside being an accompanying dearth of ‘worst films’. But while popcorn and choc top sales dipped alarmingly, there was no shortage of homegrown cinematic excellence, even if most of it never reached an actual big screen. Depending on your viewpoint, the streaming...