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Reopening an unsolved murder case TheAge.com.au Stella Barirzs August 31, 2006 SYDNEYSIDERS still wonder who killed CSIRO physicist Dr Gilbert Bogle and Mrs Margaret Chandler, wife of Dr Bogle's colleague, whose half-naked corpses were found by the Lane Cove River on New Year's Day in 1963. It is a juicy story involving marital infidelity during […]
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musicOMH.com UK cinema release date: 21 July 2006 These days, there is a conventionalised formula for the achievement of realism in film: lots of rough-and-ready handheld camerawork, a largely unprofessional cast drawn from the same street-level milieu in which the story is set, and improvised dialogue that builds around a vague scenario that only […]
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FilmInk Marta Jary “…a deeply evocative experience…” Rolf de Heer (Bad Boy Bubby, The Quiet Room) has long proven his ability to fearlessly tackle subject matter that simultaneously enlightens and unnerves. The Old Man Who Read Love Stories is perhaps a more romantic dalliance for De Heer, but is no less relentless in its excavation […]
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FilmInk James Mitchell “…quality is not dead in Australian cinema.” On her eighteenth birthday, Steph (Emma Lung) is given her late mother’s diary, the key to both her past and future. She learns of the exploits of her parents before their death in a car accident and the love affair between their best friends – […]
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FilmInk Eric Free “…a film of all-too-rare power, conviction and emotion.” For his long awaited second feature film, director Rowan Woods revisits the same bleak territory that he so memorably traversed in his debut The Boys. But while Little Fish occupies a similar geography (it’s set in Sydney’s multicultural south-west, rife with drug addiction and […]
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Express India Shubhra Gupta Perfect entertainer V For VendettaCast: Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Stephen FryDirector: James Mc TeigueShowing at: E-Square, Inox, Gold Adlabs PART Orwellian, part every futuristic dystopian nightmare, V For Vendetta takes you forward into a time when the might of the US has crumbled, and England has been taken over by a […]
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The Star PETER HOWELL MOVIE CRITICMarch 16, 2006 Chaos, in the letter VV For Vendetta Starring Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Stephen Rea, John Hurt and Stephen Fry. Directed by James McTeigue. 132 minutes. At major theatres. 14A As V for Vendetta closes to the strident tone of Mick Jagger singing "Street Fighting Man," the thought […]
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From the Los Angeles Times By Carina ChocanoTimes Staff Writer March 16, 2006 Blind Ambition The Wachowski brothers, the men behind "The Matrix," offer a lot of ideas in "Vendetta" that don’t add up. "V for Vendetta" is not a movie of ideas so much as it is an idea mall. By the time you've […]
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OhMyNews Brian Orndorf (briano) 'V for Vendetta' Explosive Filmmaking It's certain to enrage, but it also entertains The setting is Britain in the near future, where a fascist faction of government (lead by a foaming John Hurt) has risen to power, ruling with an iron fist, outlawing such things as the arts, homosexuality, and non-Christian […]
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The Rebel Yell By: Jared Goode and Zac Hestand From J to Z: 'V for Vendetta'Move over Ebert and Roeper, The Rebel Yell's Jared Goode and Zac Hestand are giving the thumbs up Having recently been criticized for being overly "preachy" in my reviews (by the president of Zac's fan club, no doubt—they are a […]
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