Interviews
Oscar shoo-in Eddy Redmayne talks playing Stephen Hawking in the movie The Theory Of Everything. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SBS2Australia Twitter: https://twitter.com/sbs2 Tumblr: http://sbs2australia.tumblr.com/
Roy Conli 20 year veteran of Walt Disney Animation talks about Bog Hero 6 and where the studio has gone right and wrong. Will the first animated Marvel film be Disney's next Frozen-sized hit? Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SBS2Australia Twitter: https://twitter.com/thefeedsbs Tumblr: http://sbs2australia.tumblr.com/
I really don't get enough opportunities to bring up eye make-up in interviews. Joel answers the campaign to boycott his new movie Exodus. He talks about having Ridley Scott draw eyeliner on him and having a giant sphinx with his face moved to Bondi.
His labour of love Felony is an exceptionally good film. Here's my full triple j review.
A great movie that wraps around you until you feel as guilty as the characters themselves
52 Tuesdays was a tiny Adelaide film production that's gone on to win huge attention around the world. I sat down with the team behind 52 Tuesdays.
The movie opened strongly in the United States taking $A76.7 million on it's opening weekend and it's since taken more than $400 million worldwide with a large proportion of the audience being adults.
Animation director Chris McKay says Warner Bros gave the Animal Logic team a lot of latitude with the film because of the team’s passion for Lego.
"On the one hand they were expecting us to sort of push the envelope a little bit," says Mr McKay. "They understood what we were trying to do."
The film is filled with pop-culture references but many of them are in the background - a style which Mr McKay says pays homage to the style of movies like 'Who framed Roger Rabbit'.
To many people The Lego Movie might feel like a stop motion film but it’s all computer generated. Mr McKay says the animators paid particular attention to things like camera movement and lighting to apply real world limitations to their 3D animation.
"[We] put the camera in places that on a set only the camera could go... put the lights in a place that only the lights could go" says Mr McKay. "That gave it a very realistic feeling."
The Lego Movie was made locally at Animal Logic in Sydney - the studio known for its work on films like Happy Feet.
But despite film being made in Australia we're one of the last countries to see it in cinema.
Mr McKay says he wished The Lego Movie could have been shown here earlier.
"I understand the frustration, I've felt it myself," says Mr McKay. "Top to bottom this movie was made here in Australia."
"There's nothing I wanted more than to show this to the people that made it."
Everyone is guilty of it but is using your mobile phone really an addiction? Some people say it is and are pushing for people to stop 'phubbing' and return to the real world.
We're all guilty of it. You're sitting around talking to friends and you pull out your phone to check your emails, or reply to texts only to realise that you don't know what happened in the conversation.
Phubbing is a mashup of the words phone and snubbing and many online are using it to describe people using their phones and ignoring others around them.
But there's a growing movement of people aiming to put their phones down and break the phubbing trend.
"We've all sort of been in that situation where you're in a cafe or bar, someone whips out their phone and they start ignoring you or they start snubbing you," says Alex Haigh the campaign leader of the stop phubbing movement.
There's now more than 37,000 people who have joined the stop phubbing movement and Mr Haigh says many people have contacted him online as they try to kick their mobile phone use.
"We've had some people get in contact and they might be phubbing at a funeral for example, or a bride phubbing a groom," says Mr Haigh. "I think the smartphones come in... in that they help you to fuel this digital identity."
"It all ties in to this online person that you've created and whether or not that matches up with you you are as an actual person, it varies from person to person."
And while many people might call phubbing an addiction the truth is it is currently not listed as an official disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM).
Dr Ben Williams, a senior lecturer in psychological science at Swinburne University of Technology, says phone addiction could potentially fall in the category of behavioural addictions like problem gambling.
"It comes down to whether or not the behaviour is causing you distress or to neglect other obligations that you have," says Dr Williams. "I think the difference between a problem with say smoking and a problem with say mobile phones is you don't have to smoke but most of us have to make phone calls."
Have you ever seen a film that was so bad that you found yourself wondering "How did it get this way? How did this end up as such a mess?" Well imagine if you could sit down with a director and ask them where it went wrong. Well, we did. And the result was... surprising.
