Author: Richard Gray
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127 Hours
After conquering space (Sunshine) and fighting back zombie hordes (28 Days Later), Danny Boyle achieved what was seemingly impossible by winning no less than 8 Academy Awards for an English/Hindi Slumdog Millionaire, an adaptation of Vikas Swarup’s Q & A. After taking out such a prestigious haul, including statuettes for Best Picture and Best Director (and…
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Tangled
When Walt Disney and his animators created Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, it was labelled “Walt’s Folly”. The idea that audiences would want to watch an entire feature length animated film was preposterous to pundits, yet its instant success led to the foundation of Walt Disney Studios and an empire that spans the cinema,…
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Black Swan
Director Darren Aronofsky is not known to play by traditional Hollywood rules. After attending both Harvard University and the AFI, Aronofsky went on to create his debut feature π (or Pi) for a mere $60,000. The film, about a mathematician on the brink of insanity, defied expectations and sold to Artisan Entertainment for $1 million,…
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Most Anticipated 2011
As 2010 comes to a close, and we have our Top 10 in 2010 done and dusted, we here at The Reel Bits are looking to the future. Every year, hundreds of films are released to the cinemas, and we probably see more of them than we are willing to admit. The good, the bad…
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, the collective name for the seven stories that make up his cycle of fantasy novels, have been adapted a number of times for the screen. First animated in 1979 for television by Bill Melendez (famous for the Peanuts cartoons), four of the stories were adapted for the BBC between 1988…
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Top 10 in 2010
Another year has come and gone, and now that the two of us have had a chance to see most of the releases in Australia, it is a good time to stop and reflect on our favourites from 2010. It is no exaggeration to say that we saw hundreds of films this year. We’ve enjoyed…
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Review: Somewhere
REVIEW: Sofia Coppola observes the lifestyles of the rich and infamous.
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The Tourist
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck made his mark on the film world with his 2006 debut feature The Lives of Others, the winner of the Best Foreign Language Film of the Year at the Academy Awards. The study of the German Democratic Republic in the 1980s, during the height of the ‘Stasiland’ era, was a subtle…
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TRON: Legacy
The year was 1982. The Decade was well underway, and thanks to Rocky II , Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” was roaring up the charts, and Men At Work’s “Down Under” wasn’t too far behind. A young Kirsten Dunst and Seth Rogen were born. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial was one of the highest-grossing box-office successes, and Chariots…
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Tamara Drewe
The literary works of Thomas Hardy have been adapted many times over the years, most notably as plays, television mini-series and feature films. Although often occupied with the social constraints placed on the lives of people living within the 19th century class structure, the themes of fate (and fatalism for that matter) inherent in the…
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