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Category: Film/TV
SF3 CO-FOUNDER ANGELA BLAKE & 2016 WINNERS ON PROMOTING GRASSROOTS AUSSIE FILMMAKING
“After about a minute your brain kicks and you think, oh wow, and when you start to realise what’s happening it’s a beautiful thing and you’re so engaged.” With the second annual Sydney SmartFone Flick […]
SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR STEFAN POPESCU TALKS SUFF 2016
“It’s a little bit arty, a little bit weirdo, a little bit cult, a little bit horror.” Sydney Underground Film Festival (SUFF) Director Stefan Popescu and the team are gearing up for their 2016 outing […]
SMARTFONE FLICK FEST (SF3) 2016 WRAPS IN SYDNEY
“For $12 a month you can buy an iPhone and put this on the screen.” The second annual SmartFone Flick Fest screened it’s top ten finalists last night at the Chauvel Cinema in Sydney’s Paddington, […]
PALACE CINEMAS ANNOUNCE 14-SCREEN COMPLEX FOR SYDNEY’S CENTRAL PARK
Palace Cinemas today confirmed that the cinema chain will be opening a 14-screen complex, Palace Central, in Sydney’s Central Park Mall in late 2017. Central Park Mall, having opened its doors in recent years, is […]
PROOF
“It’s a beautiful film, it’s an absolutely beautiful film. I felt like I was almost watching another person that’s how long ago it was.” Proof star Hugo Weaving joined Margaret Pomeranz and the crew of […]
SPLIT – SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO
The first trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s Split just landed and it’s got a lot of people excited. Following on from the Director’s (once dubbed the next Spielberg) 2015 low-budget, critical hit The Visit, also […]
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL CLOSING NIGHT GALA AND AWARDS
The 63rd annual Sydney Film Festival concluded tonight, with the 2016 Sydney Film Prize going to Kleber Mendonca Filho for Brazilian drama ‘Aquarius,’ the Jury favourite out of the 12 entries in this year’s official […]
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL LONG WEEKEND CHEAT SHEET
The 2016 Sydney Film Festival kicked off on Wednesday night with the world premiere of Goldstone. Starring Aaron Pedersen, David Wenham and Jacki Weaver, amongst others, the sold-out opening gala too played host to a who’s-who […]
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL OPENS WITH GOLDSTONE WORLD PREMIERE
“The worlds that you see tonight are smashing together like they have in this country for quite a while.” Ivan Sen addressed a sold-out crowd tonight at Sydney’s State Theatre during the opening of the […]
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR NASHEN MOODLEY ON WHAT TO LOOK FORWARD TO THIS YEAR
See above for full audio, excerpts below On the Festival theme: ‘Change Your View, Change Your World’ “It’s looking at the ability of cinema to alter your perspective. In some ways this can […]
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES NEW SCREENINGS DIRECT FROM CANNES
Kicking off on Wednesday 8th June, the 63rd Sydney Film Festival has announced eight new films and one restoration, arriving directly from Cannes, to screen as part of this year’s program. “The Festival is very pleased […]
GAME OF THRONES SEASON 6 FIRST HALF RE-CAP – ONE DOOR CLOSES
Spoiler alert: This article discusses plot points from George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels to date as well as the TV series episodes to date including season 6 […]
RAKE – SEASON 4 Premiere
Spoiler alert: This piece discusses major Rake plot points up until the end of Season 3 Everyone’s favourite (or least favourite) barrister is back in town. The massive in-joke for both Sydney’s theatre scene and […]
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL 2016 – SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO
The greatest hits of Martin Scorsese. Daniel Radcliffe as a farting corpse. An adaptation of a little-known Jane Austen novella where Kate Beckinsale plays “the Walter White of polite British society.” A Polish-romance-comedy-horror-vampire-mermaid-musical. These are […]
SYDNEY’S SECOND ANNUAL IRISH FILM FESTIVAL WRAPS WITH ‘LOST IN THE LIVING’
Sydney’s second annual Irish Film Festival concluded at The Chauvel Cinema in Sydney’s Paddington following four days of screenings, closing with the Australian premiere of Lost In The Living, which chronicles an Irish musician’s (Tadgh […]
EUROVISION ’16
Note: contains spoilers Australia was jolted awake this morning by the Eurovision grand finale; and after that vote count, there’s no way we’re going back to sleep. For the first time ever, the contest crossed […]
CIVIL WAR VS DAWN OF JUSTICE
Did you ever watch a film and think, I’ve seen that before? This year has already seen two separate treatments of the famed Florence Foster Jenkins, with announcements only in the past weeks that more […]
EUROVISION 2016 – GET EXCITED AUSTRALIA
It’s another year of Eurovision – ballads, strobe lights, the tackiest hosts Europe could muster and at least one act denied permission to perform naked with wolves. (spoilers ahead) After Guy Sebastian placed fifth with […]
NEXT ON NETFLIX: MONARCHS, SUPERHEROES & GILMORE GIRLS
A year on from setting up shop in Australia, Netflix has gone from strength to strength. Pumping out hits like House of Cards, Daredevil, and Love; the streaming service also recently released the second series of Tina […]
SECOND ANNUAL IRISH FILM FESTIVAL WRAPS WITH LOST IN THE LIVING
Sydney’s Irish Film Festival enjoyed another big year in 2016, and was capped off with a screening of Robert Manson’s vivid musical adventure, Lost In The Living. Sydney’s second annual Irish Film Festival concluded on […]
GALAXY QUEST TV SEQUEL GROUNDED
An affirmed and amusingly ingenious sci-fi comedy cult classic, 1999’s Galaxy Quest nearly got the small screen sequel treatment, but sadly went crashing back to earth with the passing of much loved co-star, Alan Rickman. […]
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