Believe it or not, this isn’t a film about Simone Biles latent fifth gold medal that became a bronze. Aside from the scenes of gymnastics, this film is about as far from the grace of the American superstar as any film could possibly be, but unabashedly so. The Bronze is what happens when The Big…
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The Melbourne Recital Centre became a cultural gala on August 12th as the winners of the Westpac Indian Film Festival of Melbourne and the Western Union Short Film Festival were announced. Amongst the crowds was Bollywood hallmark Rishi Kapoor who was awarded the Westpac Excellence In Cinema Award for 2016. Kapoor, who has as many…
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The Australian Film Television and Radio School has announced a partnership with Virgin Australia that will see its aircraft screens adorned with the best short films to come out of the school. The initiative will take the title, the ‘Best of the Fest’ program and will feature a selection of AFTRS films that have screened…
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There are more and more big names starting to be linked with the Mary Poppins sequel, with the latest reporting Meryl Streep and Ben Wishaw are in talks to join the project. Whether the millennials will recognise it or not, a sequel to the 1964 Mary Poppins is a graceful moment for American cinema. The…
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Madman Entertainment has announced that Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV will brace select cinemas in Australia and New Zealand from the 27th of August. The film is servicing as a standalone CG companion feature to the highly anticipated game Final Fantasy XV, which will be available on Playstation 4 and Xbox One on 30 September 2016….
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David O. Russell, Julianne Moore and Robert De Niro are the latest big names to make the transition from box office cannon to weekly Television. While the director of Silver Linings Playbook, Joy and American Hustle has ventured into TV before with projects at FX, CBS, ABC and Syfy the addition of Moore and De…
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For the second time this year, a film will take us through Aokigahara or Japan’s Suicide Forest, this time with Gus van Sant, Naomi Watts and Matthew McConaughey in the emotional drama The Sea of Trees. The film will follow McConaughey’s character as he travels to Japan with the intention of taking his own life, and decides…
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The two longest running comedies currently airing on Fox in the USA will join forces (pun intended) on Tuesday October 11th for a special one-hour episode. The news came through Monday from the Television Critics Association’s summer press tour where New Girl creator Elizabeth Meriwether announced that “The crossover episode has historically been the artistic high point…
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Suits is now USA Network’s longest-running drama, and it looks like it will keep on keeping on as show runners announced Wednesday that the series from Aaron Korsh would return for a seventh season. The announcement comes as season six of the series approaches its mid-season finale scheduled to air on Aug. 10. Suits is…
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As Lights Out continues its surge through the box office, now accumulating as much as US$27 million in domestic sales since its July 22nd release, New Line Cinema have already ordered a successor to the film. David F. Sandberg and his wife Lotta Losten are reportedly both to return to work on Lights Out 2,…
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If inferences can be drawn on the fans of Larry David, then the announcement of a ninth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm is probably being greeted with a lot of nonchalant, unenthusiastic cheers right about now. It has been five years since the friendly face of the neurotic Larry David flashed the screens of HBO…
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The latest trailer for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them debuted at San Diego Comic Con over the weekend and it looks like the magic hasn’t been lost. Set for its November release, the latest opus from J. K. Rowling looks every bit as Hogwarts (and maybe a tad Peaky Blinders) as the series that…
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There’s been King Arthurs before and there will probably be King Arthurs to come, but how many of them will have Guy Ritchie in the director’s seat? If you were wondering how the man who made Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels would take on a tale from the 6th century, San Diego Comic Con…
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For the first time since Luke Cage emerged as Marvel and Netflix’s next original series, the cluster of stars forming the cast of the of the series took to the panel at Comic Con San Diego. Among the panel was Luke Cage to be Mike Colter, Alfre Woodard, Mahershala Ali, Theo Rossi, Simone Missick, Frank…
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Amongst other things, Gregg Turkington and Tim Heidecker spoke briefly in their comedy The Comedy about what the life of Gregg’s alter ego Neil Hamburger would be like offstage. It was almost four years on when we finally got to see exactly how that life would be in his latest film, Entertainment. One time Australian Gregg…
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The horror is already settling as the first trailer for Monster Fest 2016 has hit the net with an eerie and nostalgic two minutes of tantalizing horror. The trailer from Monster Pictures co-founder Neil Foley and filmmaker Mark Bakaitis (Cult Girls) was inspired by J. Lee Thompson’s 1966 flick Eye of the Devil, which also…
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Whether you knew it or not, last Sunday (July 17th) was World Emoji Day, an actual day to celebrate those yellow faces that present our emotions better than we can through words. The day was probably best celebrated by Deadpool and Silicon Valley star T.J. Miller, however, as he became the first actor officially attached to Sony…
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ABC has become the third Australian Network to offer all of their channels through a live streaming service, joining PLUS7 and 9Now with their comprehensive streaming service iview. The addition of ABC2, ABC3 and ABC KIDS means that ABC is now offering their entire broadcast spectrum to be viewed through the smartphone app or via…
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From July 30th until August the 18th, Village Cinemas will be playing some of Disney’s most beloved live-action fairytales for the Fairytale Film Festival. The festival will conclude with an exclusive preview screening of Pete’s Dragon, Disney’s anticipated live action reboot of the 1977 classic of the same title. The festival comes on the back of the success…
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Only days from its expected release, the first hour of the second season of Mr. Robot has premiered via streams on USA Network and YouTube. Fans paying close enough attention to the show’s Twitter were notified of an announcement that the first hour would stream for a limited time from 8.30pm EDT. ET, Snapchat, Buzzfeed…
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Aussie adventure documentary Motorkite Dreaming will begin screening in selected cinemas from August, touring South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. Motorkite Dreaming follows voyager Daryl Clarke as he attempts to fly a motorkite (basically a lawnmower with a hand-glider attached) across 400km of outback Australia, passing through 20 Aboriginal nations. The film will…
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Universal’s The Secret Life of Pets has set a record for an original animated property as it led a strong field of pictures through the post-holiday weekend, where the top twelve films grossed an estimated $206 million. The weekend’s other big releases, Mike and Dave need Wedding Dates as well as the limited (only playing…
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There’s an early air of Oscar potential generating from Tom Hanks and Clint Eastwood’s next film, Sully, after the trailer premiered earlier this week. The film to be directed by Clint Eastwood, will follow the story of heroic US pilot Chesley Sullenberger, who made history when he safely landed US Airways Flight 1549 on New…
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A 2011 Rolling Stones article titled The Stoner Arms Dealers: How Two American Kids Became Big-Time Weapons Traders has been turned into a motion picture, and its full trailer has finally hit the net. The story of Efraim Diveroli and his partner David Packouz, is the curious tale of two boys completely out of their element and…
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Scott Eastwood who will play an unidentified role in the Suicide Squad film to be released later this year, has begun early talks to join the Pacific Rim sequel. The sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s 2013 sci-fi action flick about giant robots fighting giant monsters has already signed Star Wars star John Boyega, where he will…
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Spider-Man: Homecoming looks like it will have more names attached than the entire nine seasons of Seinfeld before it finishes casting, as new additions Garcelle Beauvais (White House Down), Tiffany Espensen (Kirby Buckets) and Tyne Daly (Cagney and Lacey) all take on as-yet-anonymous roles. The new names join the likes of Tom Holland, Robert Downey Jr.,…
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‘When the order came to retreat, one man stayed’ are the words sprawled across the bottom of Hacksaw Ridge’s first poster, and give audiences a pretty good idea of the direction Mel Gibson’s latest film will take. Gibson will take the seat on his first film since Apocalypto in 2008, and tackle the true story…
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The return of former bad guy turned hero Wreck-It Ralph has been announced in an untitled sequel slated for March 2018. While details of the plot are mostly unknown, early details reveal that this time Wreck-It Ralph will be wrecking the Internet. The Oscar-nominated Walt Disney Animation Studios team from the original film have added…
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After a few turbulent years, the world’s largest short film festival has announced it will become a not for profit business and will shift it’s focus to attracting more women filmmakers and introduce a board to promote the longevity of the organization. 25 years ago, John Polson and a couple of his friends stood outside…
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Ben Affleck was a man long destined to be the caped crusader. A man so mirrored to the bat, he’d even built himself his very own Batcave inside his home. Having embodied the fiction of Bruce Wayne, Affleck found himself stepping into the suit for the first time to bring another first to cinemas, battling…
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