Search Results: Hollywood
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 01 October 2009
9 Comments
It is testament
to the virility of Che Guevara as a revolutionary symbol that, with the 'Che Christ', his image is used
to augment the understanding of Christ as a social radical. A new biopic takes Che as far from myth and symbol as possible.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
It's frightening how precisely experts predicted the weather and its impact on the seemingly inevitable Black Saturday fires. A new documentary questions the adequacy of the response, given the
veracity of these warning signs.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Cassandra Golds
- 24 April 2009
1 Comment
That Dostoevsky is said to have developed a 'theology of writing' does not mean he arrives forearmed with a set of dogmatic truths. Rather, he practises the narrative and spritual discipline of allowing each character to be heard.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barbara Creed and Richard Leonard
- 18 March 2009
3 Comments
People have stopped going to church, but they still
have an eye for and an expectation of the mystical. At the cinema,
spectators, primed by the structures of the cinema itself, enter into
a mystical experience with the shadow world being played out before them.
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INFORMATION
- Phil Pyke
- 19 December 2008
2 Comments
This was a known criminal with a history of violence. I drew my weapon, and yelled at him to get
down on the ground. He ignored me, raised his arm, and possibly the weapon. Everything went into slow motion as I began to pull the
trigger. I've often wondered what would have happened if I had shot him.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ruby Hamad
- 04 December 2008
4 Comments
'New Wave' Australian films of the '70s and '80s, such as Picnic at Hanging Rock and Breaker Morant, wooed audiences and critics. This weekend, four films that few Australians have seen will vie for top honours at the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 28 August 2008
2 Comments
During the 1970s, Australian cinema experienced what many now regard as its golden age. Who were the maverick filmmakers gleefully scuffing up the flipside of that glittering coin, and why does Phillip Adams despise them so?
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INTERNATIONAL
- Harry Nicolaides
- 29 July 2008
11 Comments
Fibreglass police officers man checkpoints on the road to the Thai-Burmese border crossing at Mai Sai. At a market on the Burma side of the border, child pornography is peddled by the world's most malevolent cottage industry.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Leonard
- 03 October 2007
1 Comment
Accepting a peer award recently, Sydney Morning Herald film critic Paul Byrnes declared serious film criticism to be in trouble. 'Much of the public now believes that a great film can't be great unless the box office makes it great.' He has a point.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Donald Russell
- 27 February 2007
The new Superman movie by Brian Singer packs a punch. It retains some of the best elements of the 1970's and 80's films, and also brings the Man of the Steel up to date, or so says Donald Russell...
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 22 January 2007
3 Comments
Whatever criticisms have been levelled against Warnie, he is seen as the reviver of cricket. For better or worse, he brought cricket up-to-speed with other sports, in terms of quality, and scandal. Whatever criticisms have been levelled against Warnie, Australians remain loyal to his superiority. Warne is seen as the reviver of cricket, bringing slow bowling back from the desert.
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MEDIA
- Marisa Pintado
- 18 September 2006
4 Comments
The outing of popular YouTube personality, Lonelygirl15, as an unemployed Kiwi, has prompted many to ask the obvious question—why are we still so trusting of what we find on the internet?
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