The opening cries of “Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba” to a rising sun still sends shivers down the spine almost 20 years after The Lion King’s initial release. Anyone lucky enough to attend a screening during the 2011 release will likely remember the revisit for the ambience as much as the film. Children of a new generation experiencing it for the first time, feeble singing coming from the person in the [...]

Furry red monsters.  Super-powered Zebra-men. The apocalypse.

No, I haven’t been driven mad by lack of sleep. These are all things that made appearances in the films I’ve been watching over the last four days, along with a butt-naked warlord, a disgraced New York politician and about half the population of Earth. And although the days have begun to blur together as the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) rapidly approaches its [...]

Exhausting. That’s the word I’d use to describe my weekend. At this point I’m roughly half-way through my Melbourne International Film Festival experience, with the six festival films I saw over the past two days (five of them in the span of less than twelve hours!) bringing my grand total to an even sixteen overall. So without further adieu, let’s dive in to what I’ve been up to.

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Judging purely by the quality of the films I have seen, days five through nine at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) have been a marked improvement on my bumpy days one to four. With a combination of intriguing documentaries, moving dramas and one outrageous comedy, in the last five days I have seen six films, almost all of which have managed to live up to my [...]

Missed screenings and faulty projectors have ensured that my first few days at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) have gotten off to a bit of a rough start. Yet as I wearily type this at quarter-to-one in the morning, in full awareness that I have to get up in six hours so I can be on time to University, I rest assured in the knowledge that it [...]

From quirky independent comedies to austere arthouse dramas, socially important documentaries and shlocky cult splatter-fests, this years Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) will have you covered no matter what your cinematic tastes.  Celebrating its 60^th Anniversary in 2011, the festival will continue its rich tradition of highlighting some of the best new local and international films, from the relatively high-profile to the totally obscure. Kicking off Thursday July [...]

In this 15^th episode of our weekly movie podcast Film Spiel (and yes, Anders does have an issue pronouncing the word ‘fifteenth’) Anders and Dave tackle two of the biggest blockbusters about: X-MEN: FIRST CLASS and SUPER 8. And the non-problematic running time of X-MEN – 132 minutes – leads to a discussion of what exactly makes a movie [...]

On this packed installment of our movie podcast Film Spiel, Episode 14 to be exact, Anders and Dave kick off with another of the big blockbuster releases of late, THE HANGOVER: PART II, before Dave tackles GET LOW and CANE TOADS: THE CONQUEST. Then, as a change of pace, the lads discuss a movie currently available as either a free and legal download or on [...]