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Wilson: Life is crap and then you die … or find your long-lost daughter

Posted on January 31, 2017January 30, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Woody Harrelson stars as Wilson, a lonely, neurotic and hilariously honest middle-aged misanthrope who reunites with his estranged wife (Laura Dern) and gets a shot at happiness when he learns he has a teenage daughter (Isabella Amara) he has never met. In his uniquely outrageous and slightly twisted Continue Reading

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Poster Me This! Character posters released for Beauty and the Beast

Posted on January 28, 2017January 27, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Disney will release Beauty and the Beast in 3D on March 17, 2017. The beloved tale will be retold for the big screen with a modern live-action lens and the help of transformative CG magic. Emma Watson and Dan Stevens will star as Belle and the Beast/Prince respectively, Continue Reading

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Beyond La La Land: the top ten toe-tapping film musicals (curated article)

Posted on January 27, 2017January 27, 2017 by aussiemoose

  In the Great Depression, movies were an escape from life, and musicals gave audiences hope that things would get better. The recent release of La La Land – a contemporary twist on a classic formula – has reignited interest in the musical genre. At the Golden Globes this week, Continue Reading

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Fiery red to coolest blue: Cinefix looks at the use of colour by filmmakers

Posted on January 25, 2017January 25, 2017 by aussiemoose

  SNAPSHOT Color is one of the most effective tools in a storyteller’s arsenal. From fiery red, to the coldest blue, a great filmmaker knows just what colors to paint on the screen. Move over light and shadow, lets take the color wheel for a spin! Here are the very Continue Reading

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Movie review: Jackie

Posted on January 24, 2017January 24, 2017 by aussiemoose

  History, it is oft remarked, is written by the victors. But as Jackie, directed with restrained eloquence by Pablo Larrain, demonstrates throughout its sublimely meditative length, it can occasionally be written be written by those who may be deemed, in whole or in part, to be its victims. It Continue Reading

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You bet your chimichangas Deadpool should get an Oscar nomination!

Posted on January 24, 2017January 23, 2017 by aussiemoose

  When you hear people talk earnestly and loftily about the movies that will be nominated for this years’ Oscars, films like Jackie, Manchester by the Sea, Loving, Moonlight and La La Land, among a number of worthy contenders,  are mentioned as likely to get a nomination for Best Picture Continue Reading

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Movie review: The Edge of Seventeen

Posted on January 18, 2017January 18, 2017 by aussiemoose

  Childhood is often presented as some sort of unfettered idyll, a time of adventurous questioning and exploration unburdened the shoulder-sagging demands of adulthood. But the reality is that for all the depictions of untroubled starry-eyed blissful innocence, that growing hard is damn sight harder than it’s often made out Continue Reading

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Hey Mad Max! Meet Happy Feet … you’re welcome

Posted on January 17, 2017January 13, 2017 by aussiemoose

  I am betting, and yes I have been known to partake in games of chance and gambling on occasion – OK once, ONCE, and as a result my great aunt decided I had a chronic gambling addiction – that none of you have ever thought to combine the sweet, Continue Reading

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Movie review: Rosalie Blum #StGeorgeOpenAir

Posted on January 14, 2017August 7, 2018 by aussiemoose

  One of the great joys and strengths of French cinema is its ability, gifted from a thoroughly unique cultural perspective, to look at the great issues of life in a way that differs markedly from that of Hollywood’s. Films like Rosalie Blum, written and directed by Julien Rappeneau and based on Continue Reading

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Poster me this! The LEGO Batman Movie gets cool character images

Posted on January 13, 2017January 12, 2017 by aussiemoose

    SNAPSHOT In the irreverent spirit of fun that made The LEGO Movie a worldwide phenomenon, the self-described leading man of that ensemble – LEGO Batman – stars in his own big-screen adventure: The LEGO Batman Movie. But there are big changes brewing in Gotham, and if he wants Continue Reading

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    (courtesy IMDb) You know what they say – you should never go back. But while that can be sound advice, since where you go back to can never be exactly where you left (with all the attendant disappointment that can cause) sometime you don’t have much choice in the matter. Continue Reading
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    (courtesy Storm Publishing) When you dive into as many romcoms, festive or otherwise, as this reviewer does, it doesn’t take too long to spot novels which have that extra special something. Maybe it’s dialogue that sounds like it might bounce out of the mouths of actual living breathing human beings Continue Reading
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    (via Shutterstock) Am I overwhelmed by how many TV-streaming shows are out and about and that I want to watch? YES. Do I want to keep adding to the list anyway, in the feverishly excitable hope that I will one day get to them all? Also YES. I am nothing Continue Reading
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    If you are aficionado of festive romcoms – and if not, why not, and what did the Grinch do to your cold, dead, tinsel-starved heart? – you will be well aware that they’re all about future love. Two would-be lovers who don’t know they needed to fall in love, or Continue Reading
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    (courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOT🚗 Inspired by the Mattel toys, Matchbox the Movie is an action-packed, globe-trotting adventure about a group of friends since childhood who have their lives upended when undercover CIA agent Sean (John Cena), their long-absent former leader, returns to their small town and unwittingly gets them embroiled Continue Reading
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