Category: Film Reviews
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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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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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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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Blue Valentine
There is no easy way to start talking about Blue Valentine, no more than there is an easy way to explain why people fall in love. Yet this is the playground of Derek Cianfrance’s (Brother Tied) film, a story that is as much about breaking up as it is getting together. Yet it is undeniably…
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Back to the Future: Charity Screening
PHOTOS: A charity screening of Back to the Future saw the biggest star of them all, the DeLorean, in town.
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Japanese Film Festival 2010: Wrap Up
It has been half a week since the end of the Sydney leg of 14th Japanese Film Festival, and we’re slowly coming down off the dizzying heights of the best that Japanese cinema has to offer us. Is Post Festival Displacement (PFD) a treatable disorder, and if so, can we claim it on Medicare? With…
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A Lone Scalpel (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
The Closing Night of the 14th Japanese Film Festival in Sydney is an adaptation of Doctor Toshihiko Oogane’s bestselling novel. Drawing on the controversial topic of human organ transplant from brain-dead patients in Japan, where brain-death was not legally recognised for a number of years, it is the second film in the festival (after Dear Doctor)…
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