Category: Film Reviews
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Melbourne International Film Festival: 31 July 2011
FILM FESTIVAL: An intriguing day of world enders, teenage angst and Japanese post-war cartooning at the 60th Melbourne International Film Festival as we take a look at Eric Khoo’s Tatsumi, Azazel Jacobs Terri and the audience-splitting End of Animal from South Korea.
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Review: Rise of the Planet of the Apes
REVIEW: The reboot to the series that blew it up and damned us all to hell is here, as director Rupert Wyatt’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes hits cinemas around the world next week. With state-of-the-art special effects from New Zealand’s WETA Digital, this is a achievement unlike any other.
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Melbourne International Film Festival: 28 July 2011
FILM FESTIVAL: The first week draws to a close at the 60th Melbourne International Film Festival, with a stack of goodies yet to come. We take a look at Lena Dunham’s mumblecore film Tiny Furniture, Sion Sono’s brutal masterpiece Cold Fish and Richard Ayoade’s sublime Submarine.
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Tucker & Dale Vs Evil
REVIEW: Director Eli Craig creates a clever twist on the splatter genre as he turns the tables on the unwitting hillbillies in this wonderful horror comedy starring Tyler Labine and Alan Tudyk as the titular pair of rednecks who are at the centre of a genuine ‘spam in a cabin’ scenario.
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The Conspirator
REVIEW: Actor, filmmaker and Sundance Film Festival founder Robert Redford gets back behind the camera for the first time since 2007’s Lions for Lambs with a thought-provoking examination of the witch-hunt trial around the Lincoln assassination that has parallels today.
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Hanna
REVIEW: Hanna is the latest film from Atonement and Pride and Prejudice helmer Joe Wright. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Cate Blanchett and Eric Bana, it is a fractured fairy tale, filled with stunning cinematography and capable action in equal measures.
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Captain America: The First Avenger
REVIEW: The penultimate piece of the Marvel cinematic universe arrives with Chris Evans as Captain America: The First Avenger. Leading up to the spectacular conclusion in next year’s The Avengers, director Joe Johnston waves the flag for retro adventure.
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Larry Crowne
REVIEW: Tom Hanks gets back behind the camera, and in front of it, bringing Hollywood A-Lister Julia Roberts with him to discuss the plight of the common people in a post-financial crisis world, with a script co-written by My Big Fat Greek Wedding’s Nia Vardalos.
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Review: 5 Days of War
REVIEW: King of 1990s action Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger, The Long Kiss Goodnight) returns from the wilderness with a dramatic left turn to cover the 2008 Russian conflict with Georgia and the hard-working journalists who gave their lives for the truth.
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Beautiful Lies
REVIEW: French starlet Audrey Tautou is reunited with her Priceless director Pierre Salvadori (writer of Wild Target), in Beautiful Lies, a romantic-comedy in which she once again sets out to prove that romance is not dead, it’s just very, very French.
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