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Alice in Wonderland: It's weirder and weirder

Posted: 10 Mar 10 | DISILLUSIONMENT awaits any parent expecting the 2010 version of Alice in Wonderland to be a contemporary 3D version of the bright and colourful 1951 Walt Disney musical that enchanted us as children. |

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Rich pickings tackled in The Blind Side

Posted: 03 Mar 10 | THE film, The Blind Side, stands for safe, old-fashioned values. |

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Australian vampire film fires a shot at sickly romanticism

Posted: 24 Feb 10 | THE film Daybreakers is another Aussie flick from the Spierig Brothers. |

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Few scenes in Valentine's Day to inspire devotion

Posted: 17 Feb 10 | THE film Valentine's Day is a barely disguised attempt to remake the successful British date flick Love Actually in an American setting. |

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Rugby story makes a real tear jerker

Posted: 10 Feb 10 | DIRECTOR Clint Eastwood's Invictus is one of this year's not-to-be-missed films. |

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Killers on the loose

Posted: 03 Feb 10 | LAW Abiding Citizen is a great psychological thriller and perhaps the ultimate ``guys'' movie. |

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Light-hearted Aussie fun

Posted: 19 Jan 10 | THE toe-tapping musical comedy Bran Nue Dae is a light-hearted and entertaining Australian film. |

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Foxy fun with animation

Posted: 12 Jan 10 | THE animation film Fantastic Mr Fox brilliantly transforms Roald Dahl's classic children's book into a kids-movie-for-adults. |

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Avatar: work of art lives up to the hype

Posted: 21 Dec 09 | WELL, this is the one we have been waiting for. Avatar completely lives up to the hype and expectation which has surrounded this project for more than 10 years. |

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Cheap, fast and freaky

Posted: 15 Dec 09 | IN 2007, a group of American university students decided to accumulate $11,000 and set out to make a feature-length horror movie. |

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Flight of fancy has Max with the wild monsters

Posted: 09 Dec 09 | THE film, Where the Wild Things Are, is a great adaptation of Maurice Sendak's popular children's book. |

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You having a laugh? No

Posted: 01 Dec 09 | WELL, November hasn't exactly produced the highest quality of cinema. |

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New Moon - film flaunts pecs appeal

Posted: 25 Nov 09 | THE Twilight sequel delivers a ramped-up take on this freakishly successful franchise. |

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World destroyed - yawn

Posted: 17 Nov 09 | THE film 2012 is truly of epic proportions. According to a Mayan prophecy, the world will end on December 21, 2012. |

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Become unstuck in fantasy

Posted: 13 Nov 09 | WHO hasn't dreamt of getting the Lotto numbers by travelling into the future? |

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Ledger's last bow

Posted: 04 Nov 09 | DON'T let the extravagant title put you off the rare and spellbinding modern fantasy that is The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. |

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Horror and sci-fi in one

Posted: 29 Oct 09 | THE film The Box is one of our favourite films of the year. Directed by Richard Kelly, it's a thriller/conspiracy/drama/action/horror and sci-fi movie rolled into one. |

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Animated self-discovery trip

Posted: 20 Oct 09 | BASED on the 1950s Japanese manga series, Astro Boy/i does a poor job of introducing this culturally significant animation classic to a modern audience. |

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