Day: 16 January 2015

Win a brand new Sony Xperia Z3 premium smartphone and Digital Noise Cancelling Headset thanks to Telstra!

Thanks to our good friends at Telstra we have a brand new Sony Xperia Z3 Premium Smartphone to give away, along with a brand new Digital Noise Cancelling Headset. The brand new Xperia Z3 is one of the leaders in the Android market. Combining a super-slim body and aluminium frame, the phone’s premium design also…

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Nominees for 87th Academy Awards announced

With ‘Awards Season’ coming along quite nicely, this morning saw the release of the official nominees list for the 87th Academy Awards. It’s the grand daddy of film industry awards, celebrating the best of the best and giving us a nice little compass to guide us through the greatest film industry achievements of 2014, and…

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Film Review: Wild (USA, 2014)

Director Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyers Club) is back for another awards season with part travelogue, part grief memoir, Wild. The film stars Reese Witherspoon as Cheryl Strayed (seems highly coincidental, but that is her real last name), who undertakes the personal challenge of hiking solo, 1,100 miles along the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to…

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Win a copy of the Academy Award nominated film Ida!

Poland 1962. Anna, a young nun, orphaned from birth, is summoned after many years by her estranged aunt Wanda. Wanda is a successful judge having during her career prosecuted criminals who have been sentenced to death for war crimes. She is also an alcoholic. Upon meeting Anna she shows the nun pictures of her family…

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DVD Review: Girls – The Complete Third Season (USA, 2014)

Girls isn’t a glamorous show and in many ways that’s what makes it feel so brutally honest and real. In the third season the characters are the most fully developed and realised versions of themselves to date. It’s also one that is full of the kinds of stories and things that will challenge, enthral, frustrate…

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DVD Review: Boardwalk Empire Season 5 (USA, 2014)

Boardwalk Empire has always been one of the few series on television that approaches the element of surprise from an artistic standpoint. The Emmy winning show played this hand very strongly throughout it’s five-season run, taking it from just a super stylish, superbly curated gangster period drama to something much, much more and memorable than…

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