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3 out of 5 stars.

Rams review – Aussie remake of a dour Icelandic delight
3 out of 5 stars.

Sam Neill and Michael Caton star as the feuding, sheep-farming brothers in this sunny repurposing of Grímur Hákonarson’s 2015 hit black comedy

Published: 6 Feb 2021

4 out of 5 stars.

Rams review – Sam Neill and Michael Caton's unpretentious sheep farmers will move ewe
4 out of 5 stars.

Don’t judge this warm, funny, tender and down-to-earth rural drama about odd-couple brothers by its garish marketing materials

Published: 28 Oct 2020

Sam Neill: 'Twitter has become toxic. We don't need someone else shouting'

The veteran film star has been cheering people up online during lockdown. He talks about the mini-films he has been posting, the joy of wine – and why he is returning to Jurassic Park

Published: 10 Jul 2020

Sam Neill: ‘I should be at Pinewood. The Jurassic World III sets are there waiting’

The actor talks about shunning fame, putting his latest movie on hold … and playing Radiohead’s Creep on the ukulele

Published: 23 May 2020

My favourite film aged 12 My favourite film when I was 12: Jurassic Park

Continuing our series in which writers revisit childhood movie passions, Stuart Heritage recalls wishing the dinosaurs could talk – until he was caught by the epic film-making

Published: 2 Apr 2020

Aacta awards 2019 winners: The Nightingale and Total Control dominate Australian screen awards

Deborah Mailman and Rachel Griffiths recognised for ABC TV drama, while Jennifer Kent’s colonial horror film sweeps film categories

Published: 4 Dec 2019

‘This is barbarity’: stars to wear blue ribbons at Aacta event to support asylum seekers

More than 700 arts industry professionals sign letter that will be presented to Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten

Published: 1 Dec 2018

Screen bites Another Captain Cook documentary – but do we really need it?

With Sam Neill at the helm in The Pacific: In the Wake of Captain Cook, the Endeavour takes a refreshingly different tack

Published: 10 Sep 2018

5 out of 5 stars.

The Piano review – Jane Campion's drama still hits all the right notes
5 out of 5 stars.

Rereleased after 25 years, this literary work about a mute woman in 19th-century New Zealand remains full of extraordinary images and enigmas

Published: 15 Jun 2018

1 out of 5 stars.

Peter Rabbit review – unfunny bunny
1 out of 5 stars.

James Corden and co bring nothing to the carrot patch in this crass take on the Beatrix Potter classic

Published: 18 Mar 2018

From Louise Lovely to Nicole Kidman: 100 years of Australian film – in pictures

In an unprecedented collaboration, the National Portrait Gallery and the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSAA) celebrate the past and present of Australian film with the new exhibition Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits.

Gallery

Published: 4 Nov 2017

George Clooney, Jennifer Lawrence and Matt Damon jostle for Oscar advantage in Venice line-up

Damon stars in two of the Lido’s big films, Downsizing and Suburbicon, while Lawrence steps into horror movie territory with Darren Aronofsky’s Mother!

Published: 27 Jul 2017
1 out of 5 stars.

Tommy’s Honour review – Jason Connery’s stuffy, old man’s golf drama
1 out of 5 stars.

This tedious period drama is strictly for the golf movie completist

Published: 9 Jul 2017

Reports of my death Clive James: ‘I couldn't believe how non-weird Sam Neill was’

Performers do best to do their best every time. It is easier to maintain this attitude if you are not being treated as a deity

Published: 11 Mar 2017

The 10 best Australian films of 2016

Hlcarpenter.com Australia’s film critic counts down this year’s best offerings from the silver screen

Published: 19 Dec 2016

Film talk Sam Neill on Hunt for the Wilderpeople co-star: 'I'm grumpy, he's annoying' – video interview

The stars of surprise family comedy The Hunt for the Wilderpeople speak about their working relationship

5:51

Published: 10:41 AM
Five of the best… new films Five of the best... films out now in the UK

Hunt For The Wilderpeople | Hell Or High Water | Kubo And The Two Strings | Bridget Jones’s Baby | Don’t Breathe

Published: 8:00 AM

3 out of 5 stars.

Backtrack review: Adrien Brody stars in classy Australian thriller
3 out of 5 stars.

Brody does very a good Australian accent in thoughtful story hinged on psyche-destroying effects of a repressed memory

Published: 15 Jun 2016

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