
Review: Flight
Washington is worthy in an alcoholic airline captain morality play but Zemeckis turns up the Gump factor in Flight.
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Washington is worthy in an alcoholic airline captain morality play but Zemeckis turns up the Gump factor in Flight.

Director Kevin Smith says he’ll quit the writer-director game after Clerks III. Now we can apply Tarantino’s “every director’s last four films are shit” theory.

The James Bond franchise marks its 50th year by mashing up its own tropes with an oddly enjoyable Freudian twist.

Italian prog kings Goblin will perform their legendary Suspiria soundtrack at ACMI again… at a later, spookier, hour.

Right-wing pundits, both here and in the US, love The Dark Knight Rises‘s conservative themes because they choose to switch off half an hour before the end.

What Is It? It’s a personal appearance by cult auteur Crispin Glover at MUFF.

The Dark Knight Rises. Nolan, Bale, Caine, Freeman, Gordon-Levitt, Hathaway, Neeson, Oldman, Hardy… Mendelsohn? Looks like it.

From ‘Beyond Cyberspace’ to ‘The Devil’s Doorway’, here are some of the most sublime and ridiculous sequel titles in cinema history.

Movies about the redemptive power of movies win all the movie awards. Not to get nostalgic, but this year’s Academy Awards could’ve learnt a lesson from Woody Allen.

In cartoons, alum puckered Sylvester The Cat’s mouth into a cat’s arse. Will this chemical compound do the same to your natural predators?

Critics revelled in spewing venom across the Linsday Lohan-helmed flop biopic Liz & Dick. But how did her Aussie (enough) co-star Grant Bowler fare?

Even the Olympics has indie cred: “I’m so cool I qualified for the Olympics before my nation’s sovereignty was even recognised, man”.

Fresh New York writing outlet n+1 ably (but irregularly) blows the cobwebs out of the stuffy lit-mag genre. Here’s a cheat sheet for the anti-literary magazine literary magazine.
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