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Bleary eyes, full heart – Undefeated review

Undefeated – Directed by Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin. Originally published July 6, 2012. By Simon Miraudo. Undefeated plays the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 18, 2012. It arrives on DVD October 3. This review was first run during the Revelation Perth International Film Festival. There’s only room in one’s life for a certain number of passions. Hopefully family and […]

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Bleary eyes, full heart – Undefeated review

Undefeated – Directed by Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin. By Simon Miraudo. Undefeated plays the Revelation Perth International Film Festival on July 7 and 10, 2012. It does not yet have an Australian release date. There’s only room in one’s life for a certain number of passions. Hopefully family and friends take up the first […]

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The 10 best Nicolas Cage performances

The 10 best Nicolas Cage performances. By Simon Miraudo. Once upon a time, Nicolas Cage was one of the most respected actors on a planet. That time was before The Wicker Man, and public perception of the actor has shifted drastically in its wake. Though Cage has evolved from “bankable movie star” to “human punch […]

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Play It Again – Marty

Play It Again – Marty. By Jess Lomas. Play It Again is a weekly feature in which classic-film connoisseur Jess Lomas revisits a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up … or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted […]

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Trent Reznor won’t score or star in Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Remember when we said that recent Oscar-winning composer and Nine Inch Nails figurehead Trent Reznor would score Timur Bekmambatov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, as well as star as one of the eponymous bloodsuckers? Well, never mind. The following is taken from Reznor’s NIN forum: Don’t believe everything you read. As it turns out, I WON’T […]

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Hollywood to remake The Secret in their Eyes

Juan Jose Campanella‘s The Secret in their Eyes – the most recent winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar – is to be subjected to one of Hollywood’s grandest traditions: the English-language remake! According to the L.A. Times, Warner Bros is close to scoring the remake rights to the film. Billy Ray (Shattered Glass, […]

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Phoenix to return to acting as DiCaprio’s lover?

Clint Eastwood reportedly wants Joaquin Phoenix to star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Hoover, his upcoming biopic of the legendary FBI director. According to Vulture, sources close to the project claim Eastwood wants Phoenix to star as the FBI’s associate director (and Hoover’s lover) Clyde Tolson. DiCaprio has long been attached to star as J. Edgar […]

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