We all know the Australian film industry is doing it tough. Films get shown on only a couple of cinema screens for a couple of weeks and when they dont bring in any decent money they are labelled failures which sends a message to the wider public that Australian films arent that good. Then filmmakers have to wait months before they can release their work on home formats and by then people just illegally download it. In an effort to beat the system, Angus Sampson and crew have taken a different approach; releasing their film The Mule digitally and by-passing cinemas completely. They are then able to release the film on home formats a couple of weeks later and a growing tech-savvy audience that is getting more and more used to watching things at home can legally access a really good Aussie film. Hopefully the experiment will pay off and prompt more Aussie filmmakers to release their films outside of the cinema system. I personally think its a great step forward. Nothing beats the cinema experience but if its a choice between watching it at home or watching the Australian film industry crumble, then let me watch it at home, on my couch, in my jocks if I feel like it. Ok, that was my rant, but The Mule is definitely worth watching so find it on iTunes or whatever the Google version is and check it out. Great performances by a cast that includes Angus Sampson, Hugo Weaving, Leigh Whannell and Noni Hazlehurst - its set in the 80s and thick with funny Aussie-isms as you might expect, this is less a black comedy as it is a brown comedy...with one scene in particular quite hard to swallow (youll know what I mean when you see it). Well worth the few bucks to legally watch at home, thats for sure :)
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 23:55:43 +0000
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