Tag: Australian Movie

Last Cab to Darwin

https://www.eventcinemas.com.au/movie/Last-Cab-To-Darwin

 

This is a trailer to a movie we saw last Monday in Melbourne. Last Cab to Darwin is a very well made Australian movie. The cast was excellent and the road pictures were wonderful.

We saw the movie in this cinema:

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We had time for coffee and cake before the movie started at 10am or thereabouts.

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This is part of the roof above the big hall where we sat and relaxed having our coffee.
This is part of the roof above the big hall where we sat and relaxed having our coffee and cake.

 

 

 

 

I got the following from here:

https://www.eventcinemas.com.au/movie/Last-Cab-To-Darwin

Last Cab To Darwin M

Coarse language and mature themes
Rex is a loner, and when he’s told he doesn’t have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin to die on his own terms; but his journey reveals to him that before you can end your life, you have to live it, and to live it, you’ve got to share it.

RELEASE DATE:06/08/2015

GENRE:drama

RUNNING TIME:124 mins

DIRECTOR:Jeremy Sims

CAST:Michael Caton, Ningali Lawford, Jacki Weaver, Emma Hamilton & Mark Coles Smith

 

Apparently this movie was a stage play before it was made into a movie.  I got the following from Wikipedia:

Last Cab to Darwin is a 2003 Australian drama/comedy stage play written by Reg Cribb and based upon the true story of taxi driver Max Bell who was diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer in the early 1990s. Wikipedia

  1. Playwright: Reg Cribb
  2. Subjects: Euthanasia

Mystery Road (an Australian Movie)

Sunday night Peter and I saw the Australian movie MYSTERY ROAD on ABC TV. Here is the story-line (written by Anonymous):

“In an outback town, Jay Swan, an Indigenous cowboy detective, returns home to solve the murder of a teenage Indigenous girl whose body is found under the highway trucking route out of town. Jay is alienated from both the white-dominated police force and the Indigenous community, including his teenage daughter, whom he discovers is connected to the murdered girl. Starring Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving, Jack Thompson, Ryan Kwanten, and Tasma Wilson, MYSTERY ROAD is a gripping murder mystery with a cultural perspective. Written by Anonymous.”

I’d say this is too right that it is “a gripping murder mystery with a cultural perspective”. Peter and I had already many discussions about this movie. This movie has an outstanding cast including all the indigenous actors. Aaron Pedersen was great as the “indigenous cowboy detective”!

This movie reminds me of all the American Wild West Movies. It is a gripping movie that makes you think about the present day drug culture and how some people are left behind with no hope to better themselves.