Directed by Joe Cornish Staring John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker and Alex Esmail Rated MA Score 6/6 A teen gang in South London defend their block from an alien invasion. Attack the Block, is a brilliant movie and I am kind of bummed out that it took me so long to get around to watching it.…
Australian Rising Sun badge set of Stamps Released
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Australia Post has honoured the contribution around the globe of Australia’s Army personnel both past and present. When a set of five stamps where released depicting the changes in the Rising Sun badge design since it was first issued in 1902. Keith Payne VC OAM, congratulated Australia Post for its ongoing recognition of Australia’s military…
ACTSmart Business and Office recycling program expanded
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Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development, Simon Corbell recently announced that several Queanbeyan businesses have signed up to the ACT Governments’ ACTSmart Business and Office recycling program. “The expansion of the ACTSmart Business and Office program to include Queanbeyan follows an agreement between the Queanbeyan City Council and the ACT Government and furthers the…
Battleship
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Directed by Peter Berg Staring Liam Neeson, Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Taylor Kitsch and Josh Pence Rated M Score 2/6 The navies of the world are pitched against an invading alien force set on taking over the world in order to access its water supply. Trapped inside a 300-mile wide alien force field with no…
Foxtel and AUSTAR set to Merge
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It has been announced that Foxtel and Austar will merge to form a national subscription television service. The merger is subject to decision by ACCC, and pending approval by the Federal Court of the shareholder vote. “The new national FOXTEL will be one of Australia’s most progressive and dynamic media companies, it will directly employ…
Acion Bus Trial to Improve accessibility for Visually Impaired people
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A three-month trial of bus hailing kits to improve accessibility to bus services for vision impaired passengers was recently announced by ACT Chief Minister and Minister for Territory and Municipal Services, Katy Gallagher. “The bus hailing kit is a pocket-sized set of numbered cards that are printed with large-text and Braille numbers designed for use…
Freerunner
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Directed by Lawrence Silverstein Starring Sean Faris, Danny Dyer and Amanda Fuller Rated MA Score 2/6 With a ticking bomb locked to his neck, a young freerunner races against the clock and all types of baddies to get from one end of the city to the other to save himself and his girlfriend. Freerunner is…
A Further Nine more World War I diggers identified
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Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, Warren Snowdon, recently announced that nine Australians among the 250 Australian and British WW1 soldiers who were recovered from Pheasant Wood in France in 2009 by a Joint Identification Board held on 23 March 2012. Mr Snowdon commented that current identification brings the total number of Australians identified to…
Red State
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Directed by Kevin Smith Staring John Goodman, Melissa Leo & Michael Parks Rated MA Score 6/6 Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda. It is clear from the start that with Red State that Kevin Smith has…
Tactical Force
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Directed by Adamo Paolo Cultraro Starring Steve Austin & Michael Jai White Rated MA Score 2/6 A training exercise for the LAPD SWAT Team goes terribly wrong when they find themselves pitted against two rival gangs while trapped in an abandoned Hangar, armed with nothing but blanks. I really must be a sucker for punishment…
The Hunger Games
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Directed by Gary Ross Staring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth Rated M Score 4/6 Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister’s place for the latest match. I was…
Telstra providing technology for James Cameron’s DEEPSEA CHALLENGE
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Australian Telco Telstra will be providing technology that will connect the world to images of James Cameron’s DEEPSEA CHALLENGE expedition, a joint scientific project by Cameron, the National Geographic Society and Rolex to conduct deep-ocean research and exploration eleven kilometers below the surface in the ocean’s deepest point the Mariana Trench. “It’s critical to have…
DeadHeads
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Directed by Brett Pierce and Drew T. Pierce Staring Michael McKiddy, Ross Kidder and Markus Taylor Rated MA Score 6/6 Two inexplicably coherent zombies awake amidst a zombie attack, and decide to take a road trip to find the one’s lost love, unaware they are being chased by the agents of a ruthless company with…
Glaucoma research released
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Here is something that I suppose everybody has thought about at least once; according new research released Australia’s greatest fear is going blind. It was revealed that the fear of going blind out ranked a fear of heights, spiders or lightning strikes .The research also revealed 87% of Australians surveyed most valued their sense of…
John Carter
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Directed by Andrew Stanton Staring Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Bryan Cranston, Mark Strong and Willem Dafoe Rated M Score 4/6 Civil War vet John Carter is transplanted to Mars, where he discovers a lush, wildly diverse planet whose main inhabitants are 12-foot tall green barbarians. Finding himself a prisoner of these creatures, he escapes, only…
Salvation Boulevard
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Directed by George Ratliff Staring Greg Kinnear, Pierce Brosnan and Marisa Tomei Rated M Score 6/6 A former Deadhead-turned-born again-Christian finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his mega-church who will do anything to protect their larger-than-life pastor. It seems that Salvation Boulevard, is one of those movies that had a less than…
Before the Storm iPhone game launched
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‘Before the Storm’, a new iPhone game that helps students and families better prepare for natural disasters was launched today by Attorney-General and Minister for Emergency Management Nicola Roxon and Federal Member for Latrobe Laura Smyth. “Big storms can be frightening for kids but learning what to do when a natural disaster strikes will be…
Drive
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Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Staring Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan, Albert Brooks, Ron Perlman, Oscar Isaac and Bryan Cranston Rated MA Score 6/6 A mysterious Hollywood stuntman, mechanic and getaway driver lands himself in trouble when he helps out his neighbour. If there is a list of actors under the age of forty whose career…