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Friday
Jan172014

FEATURES / 2014 ACADEMY AWARDS NOMINATIONS LIST

Every name from every category, as announced by Thor overnight in Los Angeles (Click pic)

Friday
Jan172014

INDUSTRY / SNUBS, SURPRISES, ELATION AND DESPAIR, LIVE FROM THE SAMUEL GOLDWYN THEATRE

The top categories analysed, including who got snubbed and who surprises with their presence, from 2014 Oscars (Click pic).

Wednesday
Jan152014

REVIEWS / MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM

A stirring, stoic cinematic portrait of one of the 20th century's most inspirational figures and the woman who fuelled his idealism (Click pic)

Thursday
Jan092014

FEATURES / WOLF MAN: THE JOHN JARRATT INTERVIEW

Come February 20, Australia's most iconic cinematic villain returns to the bigscreen in Wolf Creek 2. It will be the first time one of our nation's greatest character actors has fronted a blockuster-style sequel (Click pic). 

Tuesday
Jan072014

BLOG / THE RISE AND FALL AND RISE OF KEVIN COSTNER

With three new films readying for release, we take a retrospective glance at the fame and misfortune that has befallen the career of one of Hollywood's most engaging stars (Click pic) 

Friday
Jan032014

FEATURES / CHILD'S PLAY: FAIRYTALES AND FABLES AT GOMA

Three months worth of fantasy film treasures are set to soar in Brisbane, kicking off the GOMA Cinematheque's 2014 program (Click pic).

Wednesday
Jan012014

REVIEWS / WALKING WITH DINOSAURS 3D

The problem of the everyday teenager befall a young Pachyrhinosaurus is this odd but exciting bigscreen version of the landmark TV series (Click pic).

Monday
Dec302013

FEATURES / SOLITARY MAN: THE GEORGE BASHA INTERVIEW

Life behind bars is examined with a sometimes shocking dedication to realism in multi-hyphenate George Basha's latest tough-guy opus, Convict (Click pic) 

Saturday
Dec282013

HORROR / ICEMAN: THE JEFF RENFROE INTERVIEW

Director Jeff Renfroe on guiding his genre superstars Laurence Fishburne and Bill Paxton through an icy post-apocalyptic wasteland in the Canadian horror/thriller, The Colony (Click pic)

Saturday
Dec282013

REVIEWS / ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES

Is the return of Ron Burgundy and his posse of anachronistic hangers-on really the comedy event of the year as the marketing blitz would have us believe? (Click pic)

Friday
Dec202013

BLOG / THE 10 BETTER-THAN-EXPECTED MOVIES OF 2013

International cinema in 2013 offered up a mix of films that divided critics. Can you put a face to the movies that didn't make Top 10 lists but deserve to be noticed (Click Pic).

Monday
Dec162013

REVIEWS / BIG ASS SPIDER!

As the title might suggest, there's nothing very subtle about Mike Mendez's monster-movie tribute (Click pic).

Saturday
Dec142013

BLOG / DISMISSING THE BUTLER: THOUGHTS ON THE HFPA SNUB

The Golden Globe shutout of Lee Daniel's awards season front-runner, The Butler, has caught the eye of industry analysts. We weigh in... (Click pic) 

Thursday
Dec122013

FEATURES / FAMILY GUY: THE RUBEN ALVES INTERVIEW

Only a matter of hours after having nabbed the European Film Award's coveted People's Choice category for his debut work, The Gilded Cage, writer/director Ruben Alves was in Sydney, drawing a clear line between his sweet film and the universality of its themes (Click pic)

Wednesday
Dec112013

REVIEWS / HOMEFRONT

Apple-pie Americana faces off against a spicy English ham in Homefront, director Gary Fleder's super-slick Jason Statham vehicle from a script by Sylvester Stallone (Click pic)