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Geoffrey Rush Joins Tropfest

Geoffrey Rush Joins Tropfest

The acclaimed actor and newly-crowned Australian of the Year, Geoffrey Rush, will be a key player in 2012’s Tropfest activities.

Naomi Watts To Play Princess Diana

The Aussie actress is set to play the people’s princess in an upcoming film that chronicles the final two years of Diana’s life.

Sullivan Stapleton Signs On To ‘300’ Prequel

The Aussie actor has beat out the competition to land a role in the upcoming blockbuster.

James Cameron Loses Long Time Australian Collaborators

Producer Andrew Wight and cinematographer Mike deGruy lose their lives in a helicopter crash.

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Air Jordan

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Michael B. Jordan is flying high on the recent success of found footage/super-powered action thriller Chronicle. He took some time out to chat with FilmInk about the adventure so far.

Creative Excess

Triple threat actress/writer/director Anya Beyersdorf stars in the provocative new film ‘Black and White and Sex’ and has a handful of other artistic pursuits on the horizon.

Cruise Control

Director Rob Sitch and actors Josh Lawson and Christian Clark give us the lowdown on ‘Any Questions For Ben?’, a comedy about those with everything – except the things that matter...

The Bit In Between

Actor Ryan Johnson gives us the lowdown on his web series ‘One Step Closer To Home’ which hilariously follows two newlyweds wondering, ‘What comes next?’

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Reviews Archive (dvd)

The Entitled

“...twisted and paints a scary picture of modern American youth.”

The Orator

“...watchable and even enlightening...”

The Dead

“...impressively original...”

The Woman

“...provocative and uncompromising...”

Memories Of Anne Frank

“...moments of the film feel forced.”

Transit

“...mindless gunplay and chasing, mundane dialogue and a seen-it-before plot.”

A Film Unfinished

“...a grim, harrowing document of propagandist filmmaking.”

Lope

“...a captivating tale...”

Beauty And The Beast

“...a spectacular calamity that genuinely has no saving graces whatsoever.”

BKO: Bangkok Knockout

“...an onerous chore to sit through.”

Waiting For Forever

“The film falters, with too many stories to follow all at once...”

The Help

"... it’s all so affecting because of the top-notch performances, which lend a spine to the sentimentality."

The Smurfs

"...the lacklustre performances and uninspiring script fail to engage viewers of any age."

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest: The Extended Cut

"...this final chapter remains almost deliberately over-talky, uneventful and drab..."

Ben Hur

"..a 4 hour melodramatic spectacle, but it’s still wonderful to watch."

Ao, The Last Neanderthal

"Pretentious and overly familiar."

Almighty Thor

"...played out in true Z grade style with laughably poor CGI, atrocious acting and some of the worst dialogue ever uttered."

Age Of The Dragons

"Well worthy of a slot in the top ten worst movies of the year..."

Troll Hunter

"...a collision of disparate styles which shouldn’t work but, strangely, does."

Soul Surfer

"...it’s hard to trash this too passionately, and yet the uneasy, increasingly shrill pro-Christian messaging does get soggy quickly."