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Ahead of the UK premiere of Two Heads Creek, a playfully dark cannibal horror comedy, director Jesse O’Brien talks about the joys of cannibal karaoke, tackling immigration issues and filming in a haunted hotel.

How did Jordan Waller’s Two Heads Creek script end up in your hands and did you see it as more a family comedy than a cannibal gore-fest?

Producer Judd Tilyard and I were developing one of my own scripts, Inherit the Earth, which we thought would take a while to finance – and during that process he asked if I’d like to take a look at another script, which was then called Flesh and Blood. I read it with a sense of hesitation. Did I want my second film to be a cannibal horror comedy set in the outback? But from page one, Jordan Waller’s writing really leaped off the page. I knew immediately...

In this roundup from the Encore and Mumbrella Annual, we look back at the seven best comments from the last 12 months.

1. “I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.”

Trollolololo on Coles’ remix of Normie Rowe: February 3

2. “I know this is going to get slammed but I bloody love it. It’s gone beyond sellout, beyond ironic and into some new realm of meta-advertising. It’s post-Cannesian.”

Cognitively Dissonant on Coles’ use of Status Quo: July 11

3. “I had the sad misfortune to have worked at one of these sites. The conduct, the unscrupulous behaviour, the desperation to make budget was something I’d never encountered. We were constantly in trouble with the Accc, contravening counterfeit laws, grey importing etc. I can’t remember any customer ever being happy.”

Kudos offers a view from inside the bursting group buying bubble: November 14

4. “I took the iPad into the...

Bonnie Tyler walks on water while singing at a couple’s dream wedding in Westpac’s first TV ad since launching its brand repositioning from new ad agency Ddb.

The 80s songstress belts out her 1983 power ballad Total Eclipse Of the Heart in the ad which promotes Westpac’s Reward saver account.

The ad comes days after the bank repositioned around the message of “Proudly supported by Westpac”. See the ad:

The Tvc features n opulent beachside wedding with Tyler as the star performer until the bride-to-be is jolted out of her gym workout daydream.

Westpac is by no means the only brand to make use of musical acts from the nostalgia circuit appearing in the imagination of an ordinary consumer

Last month Ford used a hovering John Farnham performing You’re the Voice to promote its voice control. In 2010 Kia used members of Grandmaster Flasdh and the Furious Five in similar way.