Film & TV
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2.0KFilm Review: The Butler
The Butler is a less than satisfactory rummage through historic moments. Although the idea is sound its execution is inept with inaccurate...
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2.1KIranian Film Festival Review: Meeting Leila (Ashnaee ba Leila)
Two star-crossed lovers make their fateful meeting with their red and yellow VW Beetles at the intersection of a cold, snowy brick...
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1.8KIranian Film Festival Review: Parviz
Parviz, a fifty-year-old man who has seemingly failed to kick off any sort of career or life of his own, is kicked...
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1.5KFilm Review: Blancanieves
It’s a brave production turning a beloved fairy tale into something totally unique. Spanish movie Blancanieves is such an entity. Using the...
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1.7KFilm Review: Macbeth
Live theatre that is happening on the other side of the world! It's a new experience and a rewarding one, particularly when...
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2.5KDVD Review: Bounty Killer
Set in a post-apocalyptic future where corporations have all but destroyed the world, bounty hunters have become celebrated assassins tasked with tracking...
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1.6KDVD Review: A Haunted House
Out now on DVD and Blu-ray, the latest movie spoof, A Haunted House, pokes fun at the successful supernatural franchise, Paranormal Activity.
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926Zephyr Quartet go Beyond the Screen
The Zephyr Quartet’s next Adelaide performance will feature a program of rarely performed concert works for string quartet by three of the...
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1.0KFilm Review: Captain Phillips
In this true-life drama, the US container ship Alabama was hijacked by Somali pirates in 2009. In charge was Captain Richard Phillips...
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1.8KIranian Film Festival Review: Snow on Pines (Barf roo-ye kajha)
Opening the Iranian Film Festival on 25 October 2013 is the critically acclaimed, winner of the Iranian People’s Choice Award, Snow on...
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1.4KFilm Review: Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa is fun with enough energy and spirit to make it consistently amusing.
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855Adelaide Film Festival Review: How I Live Now
Your heart races. Her panic is your panic; you almost expect them to catch you. You are caught in the moment so...
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1.2KFilm Review: The Family
Maintaining its witty escapades until the end, Robert De Niro’s and Michelle Pfeiffer’s latest sojourn in mafia life conjures another coda to...
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1.2KFilm Review: 2 Guns
Trench and Stigman are criminals working for drug-lord Papi Greco. What they don’t know is both are undercover agents wanting to infiltrate...
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1.6KAdelaide Film Festival Review: Animation Is My Drug
Some of the most creative animators from around the world are showcased in Animation Is My Drug, an hour-and-a-half long collection of...
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896Adelaide Film Festival Review: The Selfish Giant
The Selfish Giant, directed by Clio Barnard, is a brutally realistic portrayal of lower socio-economic life in England and one of the...
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Iranian Film Festival: Interview with Director Payman Maadi
Film director Payman Maadi discusses his film 'Snow on Pines', which has been selected to open the Iranian Film Festival on 25...
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874Adelaide Film Festival Review: I Want to Dance Better at Parties
This short film is a life-affirming tale about moving on and finding new purpose after a newly widowed father enrols in Latin...
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2.2KAdelaide Film Festival Review: Charlie’s Country
Charlie is an Aboriginal living in a remote community and unhappy with government intervention into his land. Refusing to live under the...
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931Adelaide Film Festival Review: All This Mayhem
All This Mayhem is an insightful and spirited essay in chasing dreams and redemption.
