Tag: "cinema"

Camille Rewinds
0 Comments. 174 Views. Posted 1 May 2013 @ 6:13am.
Camille Rewinds - or Camille Redouble, for the Francophiles amongst us - takes a somewhat well-worn but intriguing trope and gives it an appealing Gallic twist. What if you could go back and change the direction of your life? It's a fantasy that has been tackled in film and literature countless times; Back to the Future comes immediately to mind, as does Francis Ford Coppola's Peggy... Read More
Hyde Park On Hudson
0 Comments. 194 Views. Posted 4 Apr 2013 @ 5:24pm.
Over the past few years, Bill Murray has become something of an urban legend. There have been numerous stories in the media about the 62-year-old actor turning up at house parties full of university students, singing karaoke in a small booth with strangers, or reading poetry to construction workers (Google that one). The night before this interview, the actor was spotted dancing up a storm at a... Read More
Reel Anime 2012
0 Comments. 847 Views. Posted 2 Aug 2012 @ 1:09pm.
Heads up anime fans, Reel Anime 2012 will be showcasing four of the freshest anime feature films this side of Japan. Following the sold-out success of the 2008 and 2010 Reel Anime showcases - which featured Evangelion: 2.0 You Can [Not] Advance, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and Summer Wars, the hand-picked suite of cutting-edge films selected for the 2012 showcase are some of... Read More
The Lost Thing
0 Comments. 2,867 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:23am.
The Lost Thing is an animated short based on the picture book by Melbourne local Shaun Tan, who also co-directed the film. It follows the story of a boy who finds a lost thing and seeks to return it home, despite the ever-smaller likelihood that it has a home at all. The Lost Thing has won a bunch of awards at a bunch of film festivals (including Best Short Animation at the IF Awards a... Read More
Sarah’s Key
0 Comments. 1,522 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:23am.
Sarah’s Key follows the joint stories of Sarah Starzynski (Melusine Mayance) as she endeavours to get back to the little brother she locked in the closet during her family’s arrest by French police in 1942, and Julia Jarmond (Kristin Scott-Thomas), an American journalist covering the sixtieth anniversary of the Vel’ d’Hiv’ roundup.   To date, Sarah’... Read More
Tron : Legacy Review
0 Comments. 2,861 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:15am.
In 1982, the high concept sci-fi film Tron used then cutting-edge computer generated imagery to take us inside a cybernetic world. Back then the whole CGI process was still in its infancy, but the film was ahead of its time. With the recent advances in both CGI and 3D technology, the time seems right to revisit that artificial world. So here is the belated and unnecessary sequel, Tron:... Read More
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1
1 Comments. 1,311 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:23am.
“These are dark times,” remarks a character in this seventh instalment of the lucrative Harry Potter franchise. Indeed, it’s time for Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) and his best friends Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint) to put away childish things as they are thrust into a more adult world away from the comforts and safety of Hogwarts.   This is a... Read More
The 48 Hour Film Project
0 Comments. 1,064 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:23am.
There’s certainly no shortage of film festivals in Melbourne. The Japanese Film Festival is upon us, the Festival Of Jewish Cinema is coming to an end, and in the criteria of short films, there’s the Hillside Film Festival, Portable and Made in Melbourne. Amongst the sea of filmic festivities that the city has to offer, the 48 Hour Film Project is... Read More
Japanese Film Festival
0 Comments. 3,509 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:17am.
Pop culture has had its field day popularising all things Japanese in the West. You don’t have to walk far down the street to bump into a self-confessed Japanophile loving anything from Studio Ghibli to Godzilla or Seven Samurai. With so much excitement circulating around the fruits of our Asiatic neighbours, the 14th Japanese Film Festival (JFF) is... Read More
Monsters
0 Comments. 2,046 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:17am.
Gareth Edwards looks weary. He’s deep into a worldwide promotional tour for his low-budget sci-fi film Monsters , and it’s not something that comes naturally. “I feel like I’m nearly at the cusp of having spent too long doing it,” he tells me, “and if, for some reason, you had to do another three months of this, I... Read More
The Social Network
0 Comments. 916 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:23am.
Jesse Eisenberg talks about Facebook, fencing, and channelling our generation’s most powerful entrepreneur.   “Do you want a Berocca”   Sorry?   “A Berocca.”   As much as I’d like Jesse Eisenberg to be boasting a hangover at 3pm in the afternoon after a hard night out on the town, he’s actually just extremely jetlagged.... Read More
The Housemaid
0 Comments. 810 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:23am.
Lee (played by Do-yeon Jeon) is a poor worker who labours in a restaurant kitchen and shares a small cramped apartment with her best friend. She is hired to become the nanny for a high powered attorney and his wife, and goes to live in their opulent house. But with his wife heavily pregnant with twins, Hoon (Lee Jung-jae) is forced to look elsewhere to fulfil his sexual needs, and before long he... Read More
Life As We Know It
1 Comments. 762 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:23am.
The premise of the most unlikely people being unexpectedly thrust into the role of parenthood and having to bring up someone else’s baby is not new.   Previously we have had Three Men And A Baby, in which carefree bachelors Ted Danson, Tom Selleck and Steve Guttenberg raised a baby abandoned by a former girlfriend. In Baby Boom, Diane Keaton played high powered businesswomen who... Read More
Red
0 Comments. 987 Views. Posted 20 Jan 2011 @ 11:22am.
This enjoyable comedy/action/spy thriller brings together a bunch of old timers and sets them loose in a film that plays with the formula, with great results.   Retired and extremely dangerous is the tag given by the CIA to former agents who may still pose a risk. One such retired agent is Frank Moses (Bruce Willis), one of the best “black ops” agents, who is now living a quiet... Read More
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