Ride Like a Girl (2020) – Rachel Griffith’s film about the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup is an earnest crowd-pleaser . Like most Hollywood takes on inspirational, incredible true stories, Ride Like a Girl hammers said inspirational, incredible true story into a somewhat familiar shape, but I appreciated its earnest and unjaded portrait of a Christian family and the nicely shaded performances of Teresa Palmer and Sam Neill. The Patriot (1998) – An addendum to DeSemler , and probably the only Steven Seagal film I’ll ever cover on Down Under Flix. DP Dean Semler’s sophomore and swansong directorial feature after Firestorm , again with Stephen F. Windon lensing (adequately), the film stars Seagal as a former superstar immunologist turned regional GP and cattleman who faces off against a virus-spreading militia. Falling in the transitional period of Seagal’s stardom – no longer the star of lean & mean genre films or expensive Hollywood blockbusters, ...
Australia has an impressive and eclectic national cinema, but too often its films struggle to attract attention, receive brief theatrical runs, are ignored by audiences, and simply fall through the cracks. Down Under Flix was created to shine a light, show some love, and where necessary throw shade at obscure, forgotten, neglected, or under-appreciated Australian films