The Best and Worst Films of 2009

It seems silly to post a year-end list before the year is actually over, yet a number of film commentators were gleefully posting their top ten films of 2009 during the first week of December. How dare they choose their favourite films before seeing  Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squekquel! Not to mention Avatar, which surprisingly is the only film to make both mine and Katina’s — the two main critics here at Cut Print Review — top 10 lists [...]

3 Hidden Gems of 2009

Before you sink your teeth into the movies arriving in 2010, here are three interesting and entertaining ‘under-the-radar’  films (in Australia, at least) you may not have seen in 2009.

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Good

Good is a startlingly seductive and deeply disturbing film by director Vicente Amorim. Starring Vigo Mortensen and Jason Isaacs, the story follows John Halder (Mortensen), a likeable if slightly eccentric professor in Germany in the 1930s and [...]

10 Best & Worst Movie Posters of 2009

Movie posters have the power to make or break a films success at the box office, so it’s important to get it right.

However, designing a poster that is striking, attractive and, most importantly, makes you moviegoers actually want to see the film being advertised is no easy task. Yet these ten posters from 2009 were able to rise above  medicority and do exactly that. On page two, we showcase the [...]

Top 10 Best Sniper Scenes

With its terrifying long-range killing power, the sniper rifle has earned its place as one of the most feared and revered weapons of war. Off the battlefield, it’s an assassins best friend.

Hundreds of films have showcased the sniper rifle in action over the years, but some have done so far more memorably than others. Be it because they are realistic, stylistic or just plain ol’ awesome, here are ten of the best sniper scenes of all time.

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 [...]

Top 10 Unconventional Movie Couples

I hate to be one to choose something so bleedingly obvious for my very first contribution to this fine website but at the same time, I think there really might be no better starting block (apart from maybe Christmas) for a top 10 list than Valentines Day. Cast your mind out, to every film you’ve seen with a “love interest”, whatever end of the clichéd to avant garde spectrum they may fall. There’s a lot to choose from, [...]