Melbourne International Film Festival – Day 10. By Simon Miraudo. Only yesterday I was lamenting the fact that I had hit the proverbial wall in my attempt to watch 60 films during the 17 days of the 2011 Melbourne International Film Festival. Well, like a bolt from the blue, my singular brand of melancholia was […]
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Melbourne International Film Festival – Day Nine
July 31, 2011 
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Melbourne International Film Festival – Day Nine. By Simon Miraudo. So this is what it feels like to hit the wall. It had to happen eventually. The mental exhaustion, poor diet, and lack of both sunlight and sleep have proven to be too much for me, a small man with almost no muscle mass. I’m […]
Read moreMelbourne International Film Festival – Project Nim review
July 30, 2011 0 Comments
Project Nim – Directed by James Marsh. By Jess Lomas. Project Nim plays the Melbourne International Film Festival Sunday 31 July. “It was the seventies!” Is a line used in this documentary, to justify what was known as Project Nim; the forceful taking of a baby chimpanzee from its mother for the purpose of science. […]
Read moreMelbourne International Film Festival – Day Eight
July 30, 2011 1 Comment
Melbourne International Film Festival – Day Eight. By Simon Miraudo. I’m writing this very sentence to you at 2:32am on Friday evening (or rather, Saturday morning), on this, the eighth night of the 2011 Melbourne International Film Festival. You’ll forgive me if I end my introduction here and get right on to discussing the movies, […]
Read moreTrailer Debut: New Year’s Eve
July 29, 2011 0 Comments
Everyone in Hollywood is falling for everyone else in Hollywood, in the first trailer for New Year’s Eve. The producers of Valentine’s Day have reunited with their director Garry Marshall to bring us another one-night-only tale in which seemingly the entire constellation of celebrities attempt to hook up with one another. VD alum Ashton Kutcher, Jessica Biel and Hector Elizondo are […]
Read moreFirst look at Hutcherson and Hemsworth in The Hunger Games
July 29, 2011 0 Comments
It’s been a big few weeks for Hunger Games fans, with the release of the film’s teaser poster and our first official look at Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth as Peeta and Gale, courtesy of EW. In these images, we see Peeta and Gale walking through the forest, Peeta outside his family’s bakery, holding the […]
Read moreMelbourne International Film Festival – Take Shelter review
July 29, 2011 0 Comments
Take Shelter – Starring Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain and Shea Whigham. Directed by Jeff Nichols. Rated M. By Jess Lomas. Take Shelter plays the Melbourne International Film Festival on Saturday 6 August. Writer/director Jeff Nichols’ sophomore film, Take Shelter, is a slow-burn mix of family drama and thriller driven by the mental breakdown of its […]
Read moreMelbourne International Film Festival – Day Seven
July 28, 2011 3 Comments
Melbourne International Film Festival – Day Seven. By Simon Miraudo. Well, that’s one week down. To think it was only seven days ago that I arrived in Melbournetown and trekked to the Greater Union on Russell Street for the very first time. 168 hours later (give or take), and I’ve seen 24 films at the […]
Read morePoster Debut: Red State
July 28, 2011 1 Comment
UPDATE: We’ve been contacted by the Australian PR team handling Red State‘s release, and they’ve alerted us that the film will now open late October, as opposed to September 22nd as originally reported. As Kevin Smith’s horror flick Red State nears its official release, a brand new poster has debuted online. Although Smith has been […]
Read moreTrailer Debut: The Ides of March
July 28, 2011 0 Comments
The trailer for George Clooney‘s highly anticipated new drama (and dare we say it, Best Picture Oscar contender) The Ides of March has debuted online. Based on Beau Willimon’s play Farragut North, The Ides of March stars Ryan Gosling as Stephen, the man behind the next president of the United States (played by Clooney). As Stephen navigates an […]
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