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2016 into 2017

Who would have thought it, The Movie Boards has been around for ten years. Around the time that I started with The Movie Boards, Netflix was still probably delivering DVD via mail. Wow, Pretty cool huh? For those of you who have wondered my obsession with movies probably started about 10 years before I started…

Winning Appliances opens Canberra Store

Australia’s leading kitchen and laundry specialist Winning Appliances is bringing the world’s best appliance brands to Canberra with the opening of its new state-of-the-art showroom in Kingston. John Winning, CEO of the Winning Group said the new store builds on Winning Appliances’ successful multi sensory retail concept, which was first unveiled in Sydney in 2013.…

Some Palace Electric Cinemas Open on Christmas

Palace Cinemas announce that they will open key cinemas around Australia on Christmas Day, 2016. A spokesperson commented that with Boxing Day releases gifted one day early on Sunday, December 25th, cinematic highlights include; La La Land, Allied, A United Kingdom (hit of this year’s BBC First British Film Festival), Rogue One: A Star Wars…

Castlemaine State Festival 2017: Focus on the Philippines program

Castlemaine State Festival has announced that as part of the 2017 Focus on the Philippines program, the 2017 Festival includes a specially curated series of six award-­‐ winning films, each providing a unique insight into Philippine cinema and the country’s eventful and intriguing past. Festival Director, Martin Paten commented that the Filipino film industry began…

And The Word is Post-Truth

Well in case you haven’t heard the 2016 word of the year is Post-Truth which is defined as :  ‘Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief’ And if your to believe American late night talk show host Mr Stephen…

New Documentary VOD Service

A new VOD service, DocPlay is now available to documentary lovers in Australia and New Zealand. DocPlay currently features over 130 documentary films, a catalogue which will rapidly grow with titles from a broad range of content creators and distributors. Supported by Screen Australia’s Enterprise Industry DocPlay is Madman Entertainment’s second proprietary VOD service, with…

Prisoners Helping Rescue Dogs

A new partnership between Beechworth Correctional Centre and a local animal rescue program is helping rehabilitate prisoners while finding loving homes for abandoned dogs at the same time. Minister for Corrections Gayle Tierney recently visited the minimum-security prison to tour the facility and meet with the officers and prisoners involved in the program. Minister Tierney…