Australian Indian Film Festival

Australian Indian Film Festival

Indian film breaks away from Bollywood

Like Water for Chocolate

Like Water for Chocolate

A film about food, passion and family. Not all at once, though

Wall-E

Wall-E

Just when we thought animation couldn't get any cuter...

IMAX Sydney

IMAX Sydney

Why watch a movie in 2D on a regular screen when you could be watching the same film on a screen of epic proportions and with a booming sound system to boot?

Not Quite Hollywood

Not Quite Hollywood

Mark Hartley celebrates the good, the bad and the ugly of Aussie films

Free Movies at Darlo Bar

Free Movies at Darlo Bar

The Darlo Bar lay on freebie flicks

Sydney's Top 10 Cinemas

Sydney's Top 10 Cinemas

No matter what your taste in movies, we have the motion picture experience for you

Grand Canyon in 3D - Greg MacGillvray

Grand Canyon in 3D - Greg MacGillvray

The latest 3D IMAX adventure is about saving water. Ruth Hessey asks Greg MacGillivray why

Reviews

Hellboy II - The Golden Army

Hellboy II - The Golden Army

Guillermo del Toro's fairytale is a fusion of the fabulist imagination of Pan's Labyrinth with the witty, irreverent comic-book action of his own Hellboy.

Persepolis

Persepolis

A delightful, curious film that indulges in both the personal and political and provides a potted history of modern Iran

Tropic Thunder

Tropic Thunder

Tropic Thunder is nothing but mild vulgarity mixed with explosions and entitlement, a piss-take on Hollywood excess that doubles as an example of it.

Star Wars - The Clone Wars

Star Wars - The Clone Wars

Yes, it's a Star Wars movie. The series' first feature-length outing in animated form, this is by no means a bad movie.

Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden

Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden

Spurlock covers a lot of ideas, travels extensively and has gathered together a timely snapshot of life on the other side of the conflict.

Star Wars - The Clone Wars

Star Wars - The Clone Wars

Ever since the very first Star Wars film, nerds have wanted to know more about this epic galactic conflict.

The Visitor

The Visitor

The road to white people's salvation is paved with the misery of brown and black folks, or so we learn in writer-director Tom McCarthy's sophomore feature.

Zombie Strippers

Zombie Strippers

The premise is exactly what you'd expect: a zombie escapes from a government lab and winds up infecting strippers.

College Road Trip

College Road Trip

An Illinois cop, overprotective of his college-bound baby, is pushing for matriculation at nearby Northwestern.

Baby Mama

Baby Mama

When Angie falls out with her slack-jawed yokel of a mate the surrogate-to-be naturally moves in with Kate, cueing much nutrition- and hygiene-based humour.

Forbidden Kingdom

Forbidden Kingdom

The 80s action fantasy may be long dead, but nobody told the folks behind The Forbidden Kingdom.

The Bank Job

The Bank Job

Based on real events in 1971, The Bank Job is at once glamorously retro and analogue nostalgic.

And When Did You Last See your Father?

And When Did You Last See your Father?

Based on a memoir by Blake Morrison, When Did You Last See Your Father? chronicles the death of the writer's dad, Arthur, from bowel cancer.

The Square

The Square

The Square is your basic meat and potatoes tale of adultery, deception, and revenge, full of mean guys with weird beards, guns, and beer bellies

Female Agents

Female Agents

Hot French girls with guns. What's not to love?

The Savages

The Savages

More and more of us are facing the chilling prospect of elderly parents who can no longer care for themselves.

Married Life

Married Life

How deeply we love and hate when married, or even just mating, is the topic of this polished film starring Pierce Brosnan and Rachel McAdams.

How About You

How About You

Wow. An old people's home where the people are Vanessa Redgrave and Joss Ackland, and they've not yet succumbed to the scourges of age.

Batman - The Dark Knight

Batman - The Dark Knight

We review the latest episode in the Batman legend, featuring Heath Ledger as the Joker in an incredibly powerful and disturbing performance.

Wanted

Wanted

Wanted keeps artificially pumping your adrenal glands with mindless, malnutritional sensations, only to leave you crampy and cranky minutes later.

Get Smart

Get Smart

In taking Maxwell Smart out of the Cold War into a new millennium, the writers have softened Max almost beyond recognition.

Happy-Go-Lucky

Happy-Go-Lucky

Mike Leigh, director of Happy-Go-Lucky, can coax humanity from the most torturous circumstances, and warmth from a rock

The Bands Visit

The Bands Visit

The Egyptian Ceremonial Police Orchestra arrives in Israel to help celebrate the opening of an Arab Cultural Centre, but no one is there to greet them.

Kung Fu Panda

Kung Fu Panda

Kicks, punches, pratfalls, head smacks, tumbles and free falls galore: a parade of pain dominates Kung Fu Panda

Unfinished Sky

Unfinished Sky

Unfinished Sky began life in Holland where a film called The Polish Bride sought to tackle the issue of forced prostitution among women in post Soviet Eastern Europe.

Mongol

Mongol

Nomadic culture, squabbling tribes, the never-ending struggle against a climate so harsh only the hardiest and most intrepid survive.

Happy-Go-Lucky

Happy-Go-Lucky

Sally Hawkins is a real delight in Mike Leigh's new film as Poppy, a 30-year-old Londoner with a bubbly nature and an ever-present laugh

Sex and the City

Sex and the City

Sex and the City was the kind of show that actually improved over time and not just for us straight guys tuning in for girlie gossip

The Counterfeiters

The Counterfeiters

Its Oscar for Best Foreign Film confirms that this is the sort of film about WW2 that Hollywood loves.

Lars and the Real Girl

Lars and the Real Girl

Lar's girlfriend arrives in a box, but he insists Bianca is a good Christian girl

News & Interviews

Guillermo del Toro - Hellboy 2 - Interview

Guillermo del Toro - Hellboy 2 - Interview

The fantastical mind of director Guillermo del Toro tapped by Time Out!

Benjamin Gilmour - Son of a Lion

Benjamin Gilmour - Son of a Lion

Sydney director Benjamin Gilmour traded an ambulance for the North-West Frontier of Pakistan to make a film about children in post-9/11 Islamic societies.

Competitions

Win copies of We Own the Night

Win copies of We Own the Night

Boasting an all-star cast We Own The Night, is a gritty portrayal of the drama during the height of the city's infamous drug spree.

Win copies of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Win copies of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

This exquisite film is the third feature from painter Julian Schnabel and one of the most successful adaptations of a book ever committed to film.

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