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Mafia Mamma Review – The Drought of Good Catherine Hardwicke Films Continues

Mafia Mamma Review – The Drought of Good Catherine Hardwicke Films Continues

Nadine Whitney Apr 17, 2023 3 min read
Films Reviews Comedy Monica Bellucci Review Toni Collette

Catherine Hardwicke’s career as a director is hard to pin down. Her brilliant first film Thirteen (2003) co-written by Nikki Reed was a blistering investigation into disenfranchised teenagers. Her fol…

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A Good Person Review - Zach Braff Delivers an Uneven Melodrama About Grief, Addiction, and Redemption

A Good Person Review - Zach Braff Delivers an Uneven Melodrama About Grief, Addiction, and Redemption

Nadine Whitney Apr 17, 2023 4 min read
Films Reviews Drama Florence Pugh Morgan Freeman Review Zach Braff

In 2004 Zach Braff pivoted from acting into writing and directing with his debut feature Garden State. The film utilised the best of Braff’s skills as an actor and won an Independent Spirit Award in 2…

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November (Novembre) Review - A Propulsive Manhunt Thriller About the 2015 Paris Attacks

November (Novembre) Review - A Propulsive Manhunt Thriller About the 2015 Paris Attacks

Nadine Whitney Apr 15, 2023 4 min read
Films Reviews Drama French film Jean Dujardin Review True Story

The world was shocked by the terrorist attacks in Paris in November 2015. Director Cédric Jimenez’s fictionalised procedural November concentrates on the vast manhunt undertaken by the French security…

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Warwick Thornton's The New Boy to Screen at the Cannes Film Festival

Warwick Thornton's The New Boy to Screen at the Cannes Film Festival

Press Releases Apr 15, 2023 2 min read
Articles australian film The New Boy Warwick Thornton

PRESS RELEASE Award-winning First Nations filmmaker, Warwick Thornton’s spiritual drama The New Boy has been selected for this years’ Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard program. This is the seco…

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The Giants Review – A Rallying Call for the Environment and the World We Live In

The Giants Review – A Rallying Call for the Environment and the World We Live In

Nadine Whitney Apr 14, 2023 7 min read
Films Reviews australian film documentary Laurence Billiet Rachel Antony Review

“Can you imagine Australia without Bob Brown?” says Christine Milne in the biographical/ecological documentary The Giants by co-directors Rachel Antony and Laurence Billiet. A young doctor moved to Ta…

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The Survival of Kindness Review - An Unsubtle Film About the Brutality of Humanity

The Survival of Kindness Review - An Unsubtle Film About the Brutality of Humanity

Nadine Whitney Apr 14, 2023 3 min read
Films Reviews australian cinema australian film Drama Review Rolf de Heer The Survival of Kindness

When Margaret Atwood wrote her feminist genre fable ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ in the mid 1980s she was using precedent that would become prescience. It is the paradigm of persistent cruelty in culture tha…

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Dino's in the Outback Short Film EVIE Now Available Online

Dino's in the Outback Short Film EVIE Now Available Online

Press Releases Apr 13, 2023 2 min read
Articles australian film Dinosaurs Evie short film

PRESS RELEASE Short film ‘EVIE’ has its online premiere on the selective Youtube channel OMELETO, home of the worlds best short films. Set in the Wheatbelt of Western Australia the film is a suspens…

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Golden Globes Voting Body Now Totals 310 Voters and Reflects 58% Diversity

Golden Globes Voting Body Now Totals 310 Voters and Reflects 58% Diversity

Press Releases Apr 11, 2023 2 min read
Articles Golden Globes

PRESS RELEASE Today, The Golden Globes® announced a heavily expanded voting body for the 81st Annual Golden Globe Awards with the addition of 215 international voters. Combined with the current 95 me…

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The Pope’s Exorcist Review - A Passionless Papal Adventure That Lacks Any Divine Intervention

The Pope’s Exorcist Review - A Passionless Papal Adventure That Lacks Any Divine Intervention

Kahn Duncan Apr 8, 2023 3 min read
Films Reviews horror Review Russell Crowe The Pope's Exorcist

Powered by JustWatch Russell Crowe has been campaigning hard for Julius Avery’s new experiment, intrigued at the idea of playing an exorcist whose key contact is none other than the Pope himself…

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New Aussie Comedy Series 'Til You Make It' Navigates Adulting and Relationships

New Aussie Comedy Series 'Til You Make It' Navigates Adulting and Relationships

Press Releases Apr 7, 2023 4 min read
Articles Australian TV Til You Make It

PRESS RELEASE Production has just wrapped on the brand new comedy series ‘Til You Make It, which stars husband and wife duo Emma Choy (Darklands) and Philip Hayden (Romper Stomper - 2018 series) as t…

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Air Review - A By-The-Numbers Tale That Will Still Lift Audiences Spirits Up

Air Review - A By-The-Numbers Tale That Will Still Lift Audiences Spirits Up

Blake Ison Apr 7, 2023 3 min read
Films Reviews Matt Damon Review

Powered by JustWatch Through all the successes of the Chicago Bulls during the 90s, Michael Jordan was at the top of his game. And at the bottom of his legs were a pair of shoes. Nike Air Jordan…

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The Pope’s Exorcist Review – Possessions, Penance, and an Explosive Ending

The Pope’s Exorcist Review – Possessions, Penance, and an Explosive Ending

Branden Zavaleta Apr 7, 2023 3 min read
Films Reviews exorcism horror Julius Avery Review Russell Crowe

Powered by JustWatch Ever since Fargo opened its completely fabricated story with “THIS IS A TRUE STORY”, it’s been a little hard to take similar proclamations seriously ever since. The recent C…

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