Tag: 2010
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ReelAnime: Redline
Showcasing some of the best Japanese animation of the last few years, the Reel Anime Festival has managed to put together a fine selection of films this year. Indeed, Redline has not even been released in Japan yet, with only the Swiss Lorcano International Film Festival pipping Australia to the post on screening this first globally.…
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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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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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Melbourne International Film Festival: Machete Maidens Unleashed!/Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
There a number of documentaries screening at this year’s MIFF that look at the filmmaking process. Here are two such films, each dealing with the exploitation end of the business, focusing on markedly different eras – to say nothing of countries – but with overlapping themes and participants. In Machete Maidens Unleashed!, Not Quite Hollywood director Mark…
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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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