Tag: Canada
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Review: The Whistleblower
REVIEW: Rachel Weisz blows the whistle on human-traffickers in post-war Bosnia.
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Review: Cave of Forgotten Dreams
REVIEW: Are we truly the crocodiles who look back into the abyss of time?
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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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Sydney Film Festival 2011: Day 5
The fifth full day of the 58th Sydney Film Festival was all about world cinema, with screenings as diverse as The Forgiveness of Blood, The Turin Horse, Project Nim, A Separation, Three and Hobo with a Shotgun.
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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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Barney’s Version
Richard J. Lewis brings Mordecai Richler’s 1997 novel Barney’s Version to the big screen, with Paul Giamatti in the lead. Surrounded by a high profile cast, it tells the tale of the life of the titular character, in a story that has to be seen to be believed.
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I Killed My Mother
The title of this post may have more than a few people worried, not least of whom would be my progenitor, but rest assured that the title refers to the film that closed this year’s Possible Worlds Canadian Film Festival in Sydney. Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan was only 19 at the time of writing, shooting…
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Possible Worlds: Canadian Film Festival Opening
With the wine and the Canadian Club flowing as freely as the rain at Sydney’s Dendy Opera Quays last night, Possible Worlds – the 5th Canadian Film Festival – launched a selection of Canada’s finest cinematic treats for Australian viewers. As the festival’s artist director Matt Ravier (aka Matt Riviera) said at the launch, it is…
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