The Arc Cinema in Acton came alive with Beatlemania at the premiere of the Silver Screen Film Festival. “Tonight’s screening will feature a documentary titled ‘Good Ol’ Frieda’, which tells the story of Frieda Kelly, the Beatles first fan club president, as well as a stellar musical performance of ‘Beatlemania’ classics performed by Shortis…
Nearly three million tickets sold for 2014 wold cup
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With the 2014 World Cup in Brazil fast approaching FIFA has said that there has been an unprecedented number of ticket requests. Of the 11 million received to date for about 3.1 million available tickets. To date, a total of 2,961,911 tickets have been sold, including more than 2.2 million directly via FIFA.com to the…
Australian Rollers Team Named for 2014 Men’s Wheelchair Basketball World Championships
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The Australian Rollers men’s national wheelchair basketball team have named their final 12 players who will represent Australia at the 2014 IWBF World Championships in South Korea. Head coach Ben Ettridge explained that the Rollers have named a squad littered with major international tournament experience to defend their world championship, including eight players who claimed…
Saving Mr Banks
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Director John Lee Hancock Staring Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Annie Rose Buckley Rated PG Score 6/6 Author P.L. Travers reflects on her childhood after reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen. I can’t help but think that I might have missed out on something by…
Rare Footage of Football Legend John Coleman Preserved
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The National Film and Sound Archive has discovered, preserved and released a rare five-minute film of a 1953 Victorian Football League (VFL – now AFL) final, featuring one of its greatest players, Essendon forward John Coleman. “This film is the last known surviving footage of Coleman, playing in the VFL First Semi-Final on 5 September…
The Third Half
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The Third Half Director Darko Mitrevski Staring Katarina Ivanovska, Sasko Kocev, Richard Sammel Rated M Score 6/6 Determined to build the best football club in the country, Dimitry hires the German coach, Rudolph Spitz, to galvanize his rag tag team but – when the first Nazi tanks roll through the city and Rebecca, the beautiful…
Greens Question Abbott Government Claims over Tasmanian Wilderness
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Australian Greens Leader and Tasmanian Senator Christine Milne says the Abbott government’s own Environment Department has again undermined claims that large swathes of the Tasmanian Wilderness should lose World Heritage protection. Senator Milne pointed out that the World Heritage Committee will be disgusted that the Australian Government so brazenly tried to mislead it, in efforts…
Edge of Tomorrow
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Director Doug Liman Starring Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Bill Paxton Rated M Score 4.5/6 An officer finds himself caught in a time loop in a war with an alien race. His skills increase as he faces the same brutal combat scenarios, and his union with a Special Forces warrior gets him closer and closer to…
Grudge Match
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Director Peter Segal Starring Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone, Kim Basinger Rated M Score 2/6 A pair of aging boxing rivals are coaxed out of retirement to fight one final bout — 30 years after their last match. I have vague memories of seeing session times of this one at the neighbourhood cinemas, though I…
Review finds ACT Plastic Bag Ban a success. ACT Greens Call for more Action.
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Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development, Simon Corbell, tabled a review of the first two years of the Plastic Shopping Bags Ban Act 2010 in the Legislative Assembly recently. The review found that ACT’s plastic shopping bags ban has resulted in a 36% decrease in the amount of plastic bags sent to landfill and…