Nable starred in the 2012 Australian drama series, Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms. Audience - 57 per cent. He worked as a writer on Channel 7's new rugby league comedy programme, The Matty Johns Show. This is the voiceover guy who Fox Sports used last year to promote their new NRL channel. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Gary Owen Hotel, Rozelle, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Rebecca Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Feature Film, Comparison of rugby league and rugby union. Also worth watching for a great cameo by Tim Robbins as Gary Cooper, not the dead one. I saw this movie yesterday evening where it had its premiere as part of the Sydney Film Festival. Shane Webcke is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer, who spent his entire club career playing for the Brisbane Broncos. “Taking into consideration the moments when it stumbles, the most satisfying aspect of Chasing Comets is that emerges as greater than the sum of its parts; it shouldn’t work so well as a contemporary mix of small-town charm, hard man mateship and heavenly intervention, but Steven’s story certainly does,” Simon Foster, Screen-space.com. “It’s a game of football. He performs the difficult with ease and some of his feats have redefined what we once believed to be impossible.". “As a younger bloke calling always interested me but I got into other things. 15 of 16 people found this review helpful. In a bid to cling to his self-worth, Grub bitterly swallows his pride and bargains for his future. It was directed by Brian Andrews and Jane Forrest and produced by Anthony Coffee, and Michelle Russell, while independently produced it is being distributed by Paramount Pictures. Alienated and desperate, he struggles to keep an identity he fears he'll be lost without. Throughout the off-season Nable has been a regular at Fox Sports studios to learn the craft. John Cusack’s character “Gib” Gibson appears wearing an Australian Kangaroos rugby league jumper 5 minutes and 48 seconds into the 1985 teen comedy. Slater also won two grand finals, the Clive Churchill Medal and the Dally M Medal with the Storm. Using the game as a way of getting his old schoolboy mates, who are all facing hard-luck life stories, back together, Vu enters them in a knockout rugby league competition. Matt Nable has undergone an extraordinary transformation. “I’m more excited than nervous. | “It's a tidy showcase for Cate Blanchett as a recovering drug addict struggling to throw off the shackles of her past, but Sam Neill and Hugo Weaving also shine,” Stella Papamichael, BBC.com. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. 100 Related Articles [filter] The Final Winter. ( Log Out / “The performances are across-the-board brilliant, with the warmth and chemistry between Steve Le Marquand, Max Cullen, and Claire Van Der Boom near palpable. Fox League is an Australian subscription television channel dedicated to screening rugby league (both domestic and international) matches and related programming. Israel Folau is an Australian professional rugby league player who plays for Catalans Dragons. Quade Santini Cooper is a professional rugby union player and occasional boxer. Matthew Nable(born 8 March 1972) is an Australian film and television actor, writer, sports commentator and former professional rugby leaguefootballer. [2] After playing in the Winfield Cup Premiership during the 1990s for the Manly-Warringah and South Sydney clubs, he wrote and starred in the rugby league-centred drama The Final Winter in 2007. Matt, director Stephen McCallum, and Ryan Corr, 1% on set. He later played for the New York Knights in the AMNRL, and was vice-captain there. Audience - 87 per cent, “I can't think of a sport movie that is better photographed. Despite Liam Neeson (Ra's al Ghul in The Dark Knight Trilogy) expressing an interest in reprising his role for the television series' third season and the CW Network reaching out to him, he was unavailable [21] and Nable was cast as Ra's instead.