Archive for April, 2009

Showing results 1 - 6 of 29 for the month of April, 2009.

Acolytes (Review)

No wonder why a bikini clad Lara Bingle stopped asking the world “where the bloody hell are ya?”;  there’s really no need for to further associate the words ‘bloody hell’ with Australia when our film industry does the job so well. Following in the grisly footsteps of Wolf Creek, the deeply chilling Acolytes further suggests that Australia is a murderer’s playground. If you can survive the Outback, we’ve now got serial killers lurking behind closed doors in model [...]

By Anders Wotzke, Apr 30, 2009
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Star Trek [2009] (Review)

Confession: I have never sat through an entire episode of Star Trek, nor seen any of the ten prior films belonging to the franchise up until this latest reboot. As scientifically proven to be true with 4 out of 5 people, I consider myself a Star Wars fan if anything, making me somewhat proud of such ignorance…that is until now. In Star Trek XI, Director J.J Abrams wipes the slate clean and achieves the seemingly impossible; he’s made [...]

By Anders Wotzke, Apr 29, 2009
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Italian Retrospective #3: Roma, Citta Aperta (Open City)

Neo-realism is one of those tricky cinema terms bandied around by critics and the like but many have little appreciation for what it represents, particularly towards Italy, and its contribution to cinema. While only a small movement (if you can call it that), it showed Fascist Italy to the world as melodramatic. To Italians, it provided an escape; creation of characters and stories that still presented real issues but at the same time resisting the constraints of the regime. Roberto [...]

By Katina Vangopoulos, Apr 28, 2009
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X-men Origins: Wolverine (Review)

One would have been easily forgiven for thinking that the title of the third X-men film, The Last Stand, clearly implied that it was the last of the franchise. Of course, a prequel is the industry’s devious way around a word such as ‘Last’. If you can look past the film’s flaws, It’s not such a bad thing; X-men Origins: Wolverine sees Hugh Jackman return to the character that made him a megastar.  Jackman  makes for the perfect [...]

By Anders Wotzke, Apr 27, 2009
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The Fangs Are Out: Twilight vs Let the Right One In

Don’t get me wrong – in the proper sense of the word, I’m a moderate ‘fan’ of Twilight. It’s just lately… well, I don’t know about you, but I’ve found it really hard to go in a department store and not come across a bombardment of Twilight merchandise. Catalogues don’t help either, and I swear I recently saw at least five girls wearing ‘Team Edward’ T-shirts within a 7 hour period (having said that, I do work in women’s retail). [...]

By Katina Vangopoulos, Apr 27, 2009
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Anzac Day Tribute: 8 Great War Films

Anzac Day, celebrated by Australians and New Zealanders on the 25th of April, is a public holiday to remember those who fought at Gallipoli, as well as in other World War I campaigns, World War II and all wars since. On this day in 1915, Anzac troops landed in Gallipoli for a much longer battle than first anticipated, and until they evacuated eight months later, over 8000 Australian lives were lost. To commemorate this significant day in our own ‘Cut [...]

By Elise Fahy, Apr 25, 2009
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