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Radcliffe launches Ghost Story Comp on YouTube!
Daniel Radcliffe, the star of upcoming ghost story chiller, THE WOMAN IN BLACK, has launched an initiative to find the UK and Ireland’s scariest story. He is urging budding writers to submit their own original short story to THE WOMAN IN BLACK YouTube channel. The winning entry will be recorded More >
Australian Italian Film Festival 2011 – week 2.
Week two of the Australian Italian Film Festival kicks off tonight at Palace Verona and The Chauvel in Paddington, Sydney and with 10 films a night (5 at each cinema) on offer, you really can’t say that there isn’t enough to choose from. ‘Martino’s Summer starts at 4pm today at More >
AACTA awards to celebrate Aussie films in 2011.
Australia’s best films are set to screen in a new festival designed to showcase and critique the past year’s cinematic success stories. The Samsung AFI | AACTA Festival of Film brings together film-lovers and filmmakers to view, discuss and judge each of the films vying for Australia’s highest More >
REVIEW – The Eye of the Storm (2011).
In the Sydney suburb of Centennial Park, two nurses, a housekeeper and a solicitor attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son and daughter convene at her deathbed. But in dying, as in living, Mrs Hunter remains a powerful force on those who surround her. With her husband More >
Review – Dealing With Destiny 2011.
University Students Blake Lloyd, Vinnie and Ricardo have to come the final days of their University Degrees. With the usual pranks played out in their final week, the boys now have to come to terms with the reality of life outside campus.
RUNNING TIME: 82 mins.
CAST: BLAKE – More >
Australian Silent Film Festival.
This September, an exciting season of outstanding restored silent film classics returns to Sydney! Names like Alfred Hitchcock, Charlie Chaplin, Janet Gaynor & Charles Farrell, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd will entertain audiences again, and two beautiful examples of world cinema are also represented.
Silent films are enjoying a More >
AFI GIVEN GO AHEAD FOR ‘AUSTRALIAN ACADEMY’
The Australian Film Institute (AFI) has announced that it will launch an ‘Australian Academy’ in order to improve national and international recognition of Australia’s screen practitioners. The move comes following overwhelming support for the AFI’s proposed changes, with key industry organisations and 84 percent of screen industry members surveyed supporting More >
LA SHORTSFEST starts today!
The 15th LA SHORTSFEST opens today just a stone’s throw from where some of the major studios are presently in production on the latest blockbusters that will be hitting our screens in 2012. But since no one has the patience to wait that long, SHORTS FEST is the answer.
“Beau Geste” Joins Up In Academy’s “Summer of Silents”
Beverly Hills, CA – The 1926 Photoplay Magazine Medal of Honor winner “Beau Geste” will be the next film screened in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Summer of Silents” series on Monday, July 25, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater. The evening will feature More >
The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn – World Premiere Photocall
Growing up in the 70′s, I remember with much fondness, school lunches sat reading another adventure of TIN TIN. With Captain Haddock, The Thompson Twins and of course good old Snowy travelling into the unknown, battling with angry Incas, pesky Soviets and the Tibetan Snowman.
Georges Rémi (AKA Herge) began More >