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For 25 years now Joel and Ethan Coen (No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading) have been making stylish and meticulously constructed films that reveal their deep love and knowledge of cinema. Frequently working in the screwball comedy and film noir genres, the Coen brothers have made films that toyed with generic conventions and [...]

The second cinematic outing for the emo/tween Twilight franchise continues the love story between18-year-old girl Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and 108-year-old-in-the-body-of-a-17-year-old vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson). Edward is still refusing to transform Bella into his kind, or sleep with her, and he has become increasingly concerned that his presence in her life will come to [...]

Muna Farah is a divorced Palestinian woman dealing with the increasing daily frustrations of living in the West Bank. It is 2003, the year America invaded Iraq, and Muna is fed up with the daily border checks and the realisation that there is little future for her gifted and sensitive teenage son Fadi. When Muna [...]

From Rebel Without a Cause to Easy Rider and now Crash, Dennis Hopper’s acting career spans six decades. But he is also a painter, photographer, writer and art collector. As he explains to Thomas Caldwell, it’s all about being creative. When I speak to Dennis Hopper he is in New Mexico, US, making the second series [...]

Shine and Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts director Scott Hicks returns to Australia with this UK/Australian production based on Simon Carr’s memoir The Boys Are Back In Town. Clive Owen plays Joe Warr, an English sportswriter living with his family in Australia in what the early stages of the film depict as [...]

If you want to make a film about the end of the world then Roland Emmerich really is the director that you want in charge. Emmerich has created scenes of mass destruction previously in films such as Independence Day, which took its inspiration and politics from 1950s Red Menace alien invasion films, and The Day [...]

Writing persuasively about a Michael Moore film seems almost pointless as most people already have pretty strong preconceived ideas about how they feel about him, his politics and his style of documentary making. If you unquestioningly love everything about him then you will love this new film. If you think he is the devil incarnate [...]

Prior to playing the role of a grieving husband in Genova, Colin Firth gave what had been his strongest performance to date in Anand Tucker’s And When Did You Last See Your Father? playing the role of a grieving son. Perhaps the challenge of expressing such complex and painful emotions brings out the best in [...]

On a council-flat estate in the London suburbs two teenage boys are falling in love with each other. One is awkward and picked on at school while the other is popular but regularly beaten by his father and older brother. Together the boys explore their emerging sexuality and feelings for each other in an environment [...]

The writer/director Richard Kelly is shaping up to go down in film history as one of those directors who began his feature film career magnificently but never got close to repeating the same magic again. In Kelly’s case his magnificent début was the 2001 science-fiction teen film Donnie Darko. Since then Kelly released a bland [...]

The nominations for the 2009 Samsung Mobile AFI Awards have come out and in a year that has been very strong for Australian cinema the nominations have nicely captured the diversity of Australian films that were eligible. This was the first year that I voted in the individual categories as a professional member of the [...]

Terry Gilliam is one of the boldest, most reckless and daring directors working today, with a back catalogue that includes his 1985 masterpiece Brazil, and his excellent 1990s films The Fisher King, Twelve Monkeys and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. After the horrible miscalculation that was Tideland (2005), the disappointing The Brothers Grimm (2005) [...]

Based on the autobiography of British journalist Lynn Barber and adapted by Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy), An Education is a coming-of-age film about Jenny, a 16-year-old girl who starts a relationship with a much older man. An Education is the second English-language film directed by Danish director Lone Scherfig with the first [...]

Brian Clough was a larger than life English football personality whose successes have resulted in him being considered one of the greatest ever football managers. Loosely adapted from the novel The Damned Utd by David Pearce (who also wrote the novels that the Red Riding trilogy were based on), this biographic film focuses on Clough’s [...]

Seinfeld co-creator and Curb Your Enthusiasm creator and actor Larry David plays Boris Yelnikoff, a self-proclaimed genius who was almost nominated for a Nobel Prize. After a divorce and a suicide attempt Boris now lives alone in a dingy New York apartment. Boris is cynical, nihilistic, neurotic and an intellectual and cultural snob. His constant [...]