Author: Richard Gray
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ReelAnime: King of Thorn
The Reel Anime Festival is currently playing at cinemas around Australia and New Zealand, showcasing some of the best Japanese animation of the last few years. One of the big acquisitions of the festival in 2010 is King of Thorn, based on the serialised manga by Yūji Iwahara (Chikyu Misakai) and released theatrically in Japan…
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Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
Edgar Wright rose to prominence with the British television comedy Spaced. A unique take on the sitcom, it was a pop-culture frenzy at every turn, woven together with a sweet storyline that is the perfect antidote to any US sitcom on the market. His subsequent collaborations with stars and co-writers Simon Pegg and Nick Frost,…
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I Killed My Mother
The title of this post may have more than a few people worried, not least of whom would be my progenitor, but rest assured that the title refers to the film that closed this year’s Possible Worlds Canadian Film Festival in Sydney. Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan was only 19 at the time of writing, shooting…
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Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance
Fifteen years after creator Hideaki Anno and Studio Gainax attempted to put the final word on the giant robot genre, Evangelion is still going. Neon Genesis Evangelion, the television show that turned a generation of viewers onto the wonders of Japanese anime, continues to hold a place in the hearts of many anime viewers. This…
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Possible Worlds: Canadian Film Festival Opening
With the wine and the Canadian Club flowing as freely as the rain at Sydney’s Dendy Opera Quays last night, Possible Worlds – the 5th Canadian Film Festival – launched a selection of Canada’s finest cinematic treats for Australian viewers. As the festival’s artist director Matt Ravier (aka Matt Riviera) said at the launch, it is…
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The Kids Are All Right
Director Lisa Cholodenko first started gaining attention with 1998’s High Art (with Ally Sheedy and Australia’s Radha Mitchell), but it was 2003’s ensemble piece Laurel Canyon that really put Cholodenko on the map. The Kids Are All Right, the latest film from the US director, won a Teddy (the Official Queer Award at the Berlin…
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Farewell (L’Affaire Farewell)
When the USSR was officially dissolved at the end of 1991, a Cold War that had existed between the true and just United States and the Evil Communists since the end of the Second World War. For cinema fans, this gave us all sorts of brilliant films from North By Northwest, through Dr. Strangelove and all of…
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