Director Anthony Russo & Joe Russo Staring Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson Rated M Score 5/6 Political interference in the Avengers’ activities causes a rift between former allies Captain America and Iron Man. As you should all know by now is that I’m not the biggest comic book fan (so I am in…
Watership Down reinterpreted into a four-part animated mini-series
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Beloved novel Watership Down will continue its adventure as today BBC One and Netflix announce the classic tale will be reinterpreted into a four-part animated mini-series set to air in 2017. The series will premiere on BBC One in the UK; and worldwide, outside of the UK, on Netflix. Set in the idyllic rural landscape…
Turner Launching Movie Streaming Service FilmStruck
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Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and the Criterion Collection will be collaborating to develop Turner’s first domestic direct-to-consumer streaming product, launching in the fall of 2016. Peter Becker, president of the Criterion Collection explained that this brand new subscription video on-demand service for film aficionados, developed and managed by Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in collaboration with…
Backtrack gets Limited Cinematic Release
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New Australian psychological thriller, Backtrack Adrien Brody and Sam Neil will screen exclusively for one week across select Palace Cinemas from 16-22 June. The strictly limited one-week cinema release will be followed by digital and disc releases on August 3. Producer Jamie Hilton explained that Backtrack is a spine-chilling psychological thriller that follows psychologist Peter…
Bottled Water on the Rise
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According to research released by Roy Morgan in 2015, some 5.3 million people (or 27.1% of Aussies 14+) drank bottled water in any given seven days — an increase on 2014, when 4.9 million Australians drank it in the same period. The most popular brand by far is Mount Franklin, consumed by nearly 40% of…
St Kilda Film Festival Program Announced
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The St Kilda Film Festival has revealed its exciting ten-day calendar for the 2016 event; running from Thursday 19 to Saturday 28 May 2016. Proudly produced by the City of Port Phillip, the Festival will kick off with Opening Night on Thursday 19 May, where the Palais Theatre will welcome 3,000 industry guests and film-lovers…
Jimmy Barnes to perform at the 58th TV Week Logie Awards
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TV Week has announced that Jimmy Barnes, one of the most popular and best-selling Australian musical artists of all time, will be performing at the 58th TV Week Logie Awards in Melbourne on May 8th. It should be noted that 2016 marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Soul Deep, his platinum-selling album of…
Eddie the Eagle
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Director Dexter Fletcher Staring Taron Egerton & Hugh Jackman Rated PG Score 5/6 The story of Eddie Edwards, the notoriously tenacious British underdog ski jumper who charmed the world at the 1988 Winter Olympics. The rule of thumb that we are going to have to use for these sort of bio-pics is that if the…
WA SRO has digitized 3,600 Great War wills
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To mark Anzac Day 2016, the State Records Office of Western Australian (SRO) has digitised and placed online the recently discovered last Will and Testament of famed Anzac John Simpson Kirkpatrick. Culture and the Arts Minister John Day said Simpson’s Will was among more than 3,600 wills of Western Australian Great War military personnel recently…
Eye in the sky
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Director Gavin Hood Staring Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman Rated M Score 6/6 Col. Katherine Powell, a military officer in command of an operation to capture terrorists in Kenya, sees her mission escalate when a girl enters the kill zone triggering an international dispute over the implications of modern warfare. When asked at a…