Category: Film Reviews
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Review: The Tempest
William Shakespeare’s 400-year-old play is given a new lease on life as Julie Taymor brings her considerable stage and screen experience to what is largely believed to be the Bard’s last play.
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Incendies
REVIEW: The last of the 2011 foreign film Oscar nominees to reach Australia adapts Wajdi Mouawad’s play “Scorched”. Winning 8 Genies, this beautiful film ponders actions and consequences across parallel stories of parents and offspring.
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Review: Thor
REVIEW: The latest addition to Marvel Comics’ expanded universe of superheroes brings his mighty hammer to Earth with Australia’s Chris Hemsworth in the titular role. Wielding the awesome power of director Kenneth Branagh, the Avengers are ready to assemble!
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Mega Piranha
REVIEW: (In)famous LA production house Asylum super-sizes another fishy creature as 1980s teen sensation Tiffany goes head-to-head with the mega piranha, a mutant strain of giant ferocious piranha from the Amazon and eating their way toward Florida.
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Fast And Furious 5
REVIEW: If your appetite for fast cars, foxy women and all things fuel-orientated hasn’t been satisfied by the previous four features, Vin Diesel and Paul Walker return in Fast And Furious 5, the latest installment in the popular street-racing franchise.
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Review: Brighton Rock
REVIEW: In the second big screen adaptation of Graham Greene’s 1938 novel, Rowan Joffé’s Brighton Rock transports the classic murder thriller from the 1930s noir to the 1960s mods and rockers.
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Scream 4
REVIEW: Wes Craven brings our favourite slasher series back for another round of slicing and dicing.
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Frankenstein (National Theatre Live)
London’s venerable Royal National Theatre broadcasts Danny Boyle’s Frankenstein.
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Of Gods and Men (Alliance Française French Film Festival 2011)
Winner of the Grand Prix and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Xavier Beauvois explores the twin subjects of faith and humanity.
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Hop
The tradition of the Easter holiday special returns. Should viewers hop to it or hop along?
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