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Jacki Weaver

June 2024

  • Jacki Weaver, Ed O’Neill and Cleopatra Coleman in Clipped

    TV review
    Clipped review – basketball scandal makes for captivating small screen drama

    Donald Sterling’s tapes, which aired a billionaire’s racist thoughts to millions, have been given the miniseries treatment with a powerhouse cast

May 2022

  • Mark Wahlberg as Stuart Long.

    Father Stu review – histrionic boxer-turned-priest drama

  • Mark Wahlberg as Stuart Long

    Father Stu review – renegade-turned-priest Mark Wahlberg blesses Catholic drama

April 2022

  • Jacki Weaver in black, in front of stained glass windows.

    The reader interview
    Post your questions for Jacki Weaver

    What will you ask the Oscar-nominated star of Animal Kingdom, Silver Linings Playbook and the forthcoming Father Stu?

February 2022

  • Stuart Long (Mark Wahlberg) in Columbia Pictures' FATHER STU.

    Father Stu: the Catholic drama aiming to redeem Mel Gibson and Mark Wahlberg

    The controversial stars have teamed up for a film made by Gibson’s girlfriend Rosalind Ross about the power of redemption

September 2020

  • Naomi Watts as Sam Bloom in Penguin Bloom Film Still

    First look review
    Penguin Bloom review – Naomi Watts saved by a magpie in charming drama

    An Australian family moves on from tragedy with the help of a bird in a modest and warm-hearted true story

July 2020

  • Stage Mother

    Stage Mother review – feelgood drag film falls flat

    A small-town Texas choir director takes over a California drag joint, with mixed results
  • Stan Originals Showcase - Arrivals<br>SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 26: Jacki Weaver attends the Stan Originals Showcase at Sydney Opera House on November 26, 2019 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Don Arnold/WireImage)

    Jacki Weaver: 'Michael Powell said I was headed for great things. He didn't tell me it would take 50 years'

    Silver Linings Playbook and Animal Kingdom catapulted her to global stardom after a career stretching back to the 70s. She talks about her ‘renegade life’, her spat with Anjelica Huston and her latest role as a woman running a drag club
  • Stage Mother

    Stage Mother review – drag-queen heartwarmer never rises above tepid

    Jacki Weaver is a housewife forced to rethink her prejudices in a well-meaning drama that ambles along the middle of the road

January 2020

  • Lin Shaye and Andrea Riseborough in The Grudge.

    The Grudge review – workmanlike reboot of the horror franchise

    Despite new blood in writer-director Nicolas Pesce, it’s ghostly goings-on as usual for vengeful spirit Kayako

September 2019

  • Seth Rogen and James Franco in Zeroville

    Zero stars: is James Franco's starry Zeroville the worst film of 2019?

    The actor-writer-director’s adaptation of Steve Erickson’s 2007 book on 70s Hollywood is a film of staggering incompetence

May 2019

  • Rhea Perlman, Diane Keaton and Jacki Weaver in Poms

    Poms review – Diane Keaton turns cheerleader in cheer-free comedy

    A frothy tale of retirees starting a cheerleading group wastes the talents of its cast and fails to provide the crowd-pleasing moments it so desperately needs

January 2019

  • Bird Box

    Flying high: how Bird Box became Netflix's biggest hit to date

    The Sandra Bullock-starring horror movie has left critics cold but since its streaming release, it’s become a magnet for memes and racked up the platform’s best film numbers ever

December 2018

  • L-R: Samara Weaving in Picnic at Hanging Rock, Tim Minchin in Squinters, Aaron Pedersen in Mystery Road

    Australian TV review
    The 10 best Australian TV shows of 2018: a picnic, rush hour and outback noir

    The public broadcasters dominate again, in a great year for the telling of marginalised stories

November 2018

  • Sandra Bullock in Bird Box

    First look review
    Bird Box review – Sandra Bullock's Netflix thriller is a bird-brained mess

    Despite some tense moments, this apocalyptic shocker is a disappointingly clunky waste of a star-studded cast

January 2017

  • Jack Black as Jan Lewan, the Polka king

    First look review
    The Polka King review – Jack Black shines in a weirdly enjoyable film

    Based on the life of disgraced a polka sensation, Jacki Weaver, Jason Schwartzman and Jenny Slate round out a wacky comedy that’s full of heart

July 2015

  • Sullivan Stapleton in Animal Kingdom

    Guardian Australia film club
    David Michôd on Animal Kingdom: I feared I was making a gigantic mess

    The writer-director of his now-classic debut film on crippling self-doubt, navigating the industry and how Ben Mendelsohn ruined Air Supply forever

March 2015

  • 2014, THE VOICES

    The Voices review – Marjane Satrapi’s ghoulish psycho-comedy

    Marjane ‘Persepolis’ Satrapi treads a fine line between small-town satire and visceral gore

January 2015

  • Films of 2015 ... clockwise from top left: Avengers: Age of Ultron, The Good Dinosaur, I Am Michael, Grimsby, The Walk, Everest

    Film blog
    The 88 movies we're most excited about in 2015

    Think 2014 was a good year for film? Think again. This year is shaping up to be one of the classics. Here’s what’s on our radar

December 2014

  • Joel Edgerton

    Joel Edgerton: 'I gotta step up to the plate with Christian Bale and prove my mettle'

    He made his name in low-budget thrillers and now the affable aussie plays the tyrannical pharoah Ramses in Exodus: God And Kings
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