Emily Browning

Emily Browning Emily Jane Browning (born 7 December 1988) is an Australian actress and fashion model, known for her role as Violet Baudelaire in the 2004 film Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, as Anna Ivers in the 2009 film The Uninvited, and as Baby Doll in the 2011 action film Sucker Punch. She won the 2005 AFI International Award for Best Actress for her role in A Series of Unfortunate Events. Browning won an AFI Young Actor's Award in 2002 and was nominated for the same...Read Full Story

In a trend we can only hope becomes common practice, Sundance Selects (in other words, IFC Films) has released its erotic thriller/drama Sleeping Beauty online, weeks ahead of the December 2, 2011 theatrical release date. This is great news for rabid movie buffs who must see everything as soon as it's out as well as weird shut-ins who hate crowds and/or leaving their homes. You can likely find it through your cable's video on demand feature or watch it online for ten bucks at SundanceNow.com...Read Full Story

Emily Browning posed coyly for the camera at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, after a tough screening of her upcoming film Sleeping Beauty . The Australian actress's cartoon-adapted film got pretty much panned, which in Cannes' fashion translates to congregated "Boos" and viewers walking out of the theatre. Which was exactly what happened while Woody Allen's hyped up (and well-received) film Midnight in Paris played at a much larger theatre next door. Emily plays Lucy, a driven...Read Full Story

who shows a beguiling devotion to the role of Lucy from frame one. The role, unfortunately, doesn't add up to much of anything, which is essentially the problem with Sleeping Beauty . Click here To Watch Full Movie As a screed against masculine cowardice, brutality and pride, it's juvenile and lacks the bravery to create complex characters on either side of the gender war. As a character study, it's stunningly empty and one-note. I'm ultimately lead to believe that the point of the film is to...Read Full Story

It infuriates me that Sucker Punch has been universally demonised in the mainstream press for being the one thing that it clearly isn’t and anyone with a modicum of intelligence will appreciate that this is not a movie that sets out to further objectify or exploit women. Unfortunately such vehement negative press will undoubtedly put a lot of people off seeing it and drawing their own conclusions and this worrying trend in film criticism is tantamount to censorship in my opinion. So why was...Read Full Story