Author: Richard Gray
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The Alliance Française French Film Festival 2011 – Highlights
The Alliance Française French Film Festival, now entering its 22nd year in Australia, launches next week in Sydney before touring nationally throughout March and April. Featuring almost 50 films, this year’s selection may be one of its best to date.
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Finding Nemo (Australian Film Festival 2011)
REVIEW: One of Pixar’s most enduring animated features, it gets local love for using Sydney as a backdrop and a shark named Bruce.
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Opening Night: The Wedding Party (Australian Film Festival 2011)
The Australian Film Festival launched in Sydney last night, with the New South Wales premiere of Amanda Jane’s romantic comedy, The Wedding Party. Bringing out the director and cast, including Steve Bisley, it kicks of 12 days of festival fun.
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Mr. & Mrs. Incredible
Vincent Kok (Shaolin Soccer), delivers another satirical farce for the Chinese New Year season. Concerning a couple of retired superheroes in ancient China (Sandra Ng Kwan Yue and Louis Koo), it’s co-written by Kung Fu Hustle scribe Min Hun Fung!
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Hall Pass
The Farrelly brothers return with a comedy about two men getting a week off marriage and a chance to relive their bachelor days. Starring Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis, along with Christina Applegate and Jenna Fischer as their wives.
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Oscar Winners 2011
Hollywood’s night of nights has come and gone for another year, and there weren’t many surprises. From nerds with copyright issues, to monarchs with a stammer, all of the winners can be found right here. The big question is: did The Reel Bits pick them?
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Hall Pass red carpet premiere in Sydney
The Farrelly brothers and star Owen Wilson hit the Sydney red carpet tonight to promote their new film, Hall Pass, which opened in the top slot at the US box office this week. Somehow, we got invited to it and got to rub shoulders with the security to the stars.
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Season of the Witch
Dominic Sena returns with a tale of swords and witchcraft that is reportedly inspired by Igmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal! Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman star as a pair of fourteenth century knights who discover that not all souls can be saved.
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The evolution of the western: Part 3 – The Last Man Standing
In the final entry in our three-part series on the western, we look take a look at the last twenty years of gunslingers in the US and abroad. From Kevin Costner to Takashi Miike, the western has been elevated to epic proportions – even when it isn’t being a western at all.
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Australian Film Festival 2011 – Highlights
The Australian Film Festival launches its second annual selection of unseen and retrospective Australian films at the Randwick Ritz in Sydney next week. Complete with Q & A sessions, workshops, guest appearances and short films, it is become a ritzier event every year.
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