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River Queen
In 1854, New Zealand's native Maori were single-handedly staving off British colonisation. Those who weren't...
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Over The Hedge
Sadistic and manic, Over The Hedge has the all the charm of a sticky-palmed eight-year-old...
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L'enfer
Director Danis Tanovic promised the world with his lightning-rod allegory No Man's Land, which won...
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Superman Returns
After September 11th, 2001, every comic strip superhero that had inhabited the American (and by...
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Kanyini
Kanyini is Aboriginal for interconnectedness; to land, spirituality, belief system and family. In the eponymous...
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Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives Of Florence Broadhurst
In a time before electronic banter and zoom lenses, tabloid-intrusion could pinpoint every ugly truth...
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The Book Of Revelation
The modern era of sexuality can be traced to the Marquis de Sade. It was...
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On A Clear Day
On A Clear Day is a very British film but one that hopefully touches a...
Uploaded June 01, 2008 00:01
Scared Sacred
Idea: Filmmaker visits sites of industrial and human rights atrocities across the globe, "searching for...
Uploaded June 01, 2008 00:01
Where The Truth Lies
Where The Truth Lies is an Atom Egoyan film, which means that where it alludes...
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Kenny
Kenny's an all round Aussie bloke. Armed with a big heart and a bigger toilet...
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The New World
Writer/director Terrence Malick is the darkest of dark horses, an enigmatic filmmaker who - since...
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Stick It
Over-choreographed, edited to hell, with a blistering, obnoxious soundtrack and much more flash than substance,...
Uploaded June 01, 2008 00:01
The Child (l'enfant)
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's most recent film, the 2005 Palme d'Or winner L'Enfant (The Child)...
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X-men: The Last Stand
When studio execs willingly allow a successful franchise to be torn asunder as effectively and...
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Mission: Impossible 3
Who'd have thought in 1996 that an underwhelming spy movie by Brian de Palma would...
Uploaded June 01, 2008 00:01
The Hills Have Eyes
Producer Wes Craven's early movies were of heady psychological makeup, regarding the nature of reality...
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The Da Vinci Code
There's nothing worse than a hokey, bottom-feeding blockbuster that takes itself seriously. Ron Howard's highly...
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The Ringer
In this Farrelly brothers-produced comedy, Johnny Knoxville stars as Steve, a wimpy office jockey who,...
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The White Countess
Jackson (Ralph Fiennes) is a disenfranchised blind American diplomat who trawls the bars of Shanghai...
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