Day: 6 April 2015

MICF Review: Ronny Chieng "You Don't Know What You're Talking About" – Melbourne Town Hall (Performances through 19th April)

There’s something about the way Ronny Chieng yells at you that’s so endearing. The multi-award winning comedian has a knack for picking on the flaws of a generation who don’t know what they’re talking about, in a way that makes you feel both guilty and amused. His stage persona of a faux egotistical comic is…

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Nick Cave and Warren Ellis collaborate again for Loin Des Hommes soundtrack

Much loved Australian musician Nick Cave and his Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds collaborator Warren Ellis have once again taken their musical talents to the screen with their latest motion picture score for upcoming film Loin des Hommes, starring Viggo Mortensen. This is the twelfth motion picture collaboration for the pair, who together have…

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Palace Cinemas to commemorate ANZAC Day with Gallipoli screenings

Palace Cinemas in Sydney and Melbourne are commemorating the centenary anniversary of the Gallipoli landing and recognising ANZAC Day with two days of screenings of the iconic Australian film Gallipoli, directed by Peter Weir and starring Mel Gibson. The 1981 film is about the brutality of the Gallipoli campaign, and stars Gibson as a young Western Australian boy, who…

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Film Review: Black Sea (M) (UK, 2015)

It’s often been said that we know less about what goes on under water than what happens in space, and it’s this sense of unknowing, unfamiliarity and foreboding that director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void) runs with in The Black Sea. Robinson (Jude Law) has just been let go from his job as…

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DVD/Blu-Ray Review: Night At The Museum 3 – Secret of the Tomb (PG) (USA, 2014)

Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) is back and we’re quite a few years on from the previous two films. He’s in charge of the “night program” and about to put on a big show of all the museum displays to a large group of rich supporters and benefactors when suddenly all of the displays start acting…

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