Category: Film
All things film.
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Season of the Witch
Dominic Sena returns with a tale of swords and witchcraft that is reportedly inspired by Igmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal! Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman star as a pair of fourteenth century knights who discover that not all souls can be saved.
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The evolution of the western: Part 3 – The Last Man Standing
In the final entry in our three-part series on the western, we look take a look at the last twenty years of gunslingers in the US and abroad. From Kevin Costner to Takashi Miike, the western has been elevated to epic proportions – even when it isn’t being a western at all.
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Australian Film Festival 2011 – Highlights
The Australian Film Festival launches its second annual selection of unseen and retrospective Australian films at the Randwick Ritz in Sydney next week. Complete with Q & A sessions, workshops, guest appearances and short films, it is become a ritzier event every year.
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The Way Back
Director Peter Weir makes his way back to the big screen after almost a decade away, bringing with him a fine cast and some epic cinematography in this tale of historic escape based on a true story. Starring Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess and Colin Farrell.
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Certified Copy
Abbas Kiarostami’s first feature outside of Iran continues his fascination with the conversations people have, especially in cars. Deliberately intellectual and often impenetrable, does this film reveal or obscure the nature of a relationship? Stars Juliette Binoche and opera singer William Shimell.
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I Am Number Four
The latest grab for a tween franchise swaps the glowing loner from a fanging vampire to an probing alien.
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Conviction
How far would you go to prove the innocence of someone you love? Recounting the true story of the falsely convicted Kenneth Walters and his sister Betty, who goes to law school to win his freedom, does this film overcome movie-of-the-week syndrome? Starring Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell.
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Review: Unknown
The latest thriller from the Spanish-born American filmmaker Jaume Collet-Serra (Orphan) delivers some solid thrills. Yet are there any unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know? Starring Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger and January Jones.
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest
The Swedish saga of the girl with questionable hobbies comes to a suitably gripping conclusion in the final part of the “Millennium Trilogy”. Based on the works of Stieg Larsson, it is soon to be remade for US audiences by David Fincher. Directed by Daniel Alfredson, it stars Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist.
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Inside Job
The global financial crisis, as it has grown to be called, is said to be the worst financial crisis the world has seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The crisis cost over $20 trillion, along with the loss of millions of jobs and homes. Yet while that era immediately raised the public consciousness…
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