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Belle

The preface “based on a true story” is enough to strike fear into the heart, thrown around as…

By Joshua Roberts
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How We Used to Live

Paul Kelly returns with this poetically filmed collaboration with indie-pop band Saint Etienne and delivers what is essentially…

By Francesca Laidlaw
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NOW: In the Wings on a World Stage

Theatre productions are fascinating affairs. They exist in their own little bubble of artistic expression, lasting only as…

By Stephen Mayne
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How to Train Your Dragon 2

The second instalment of the How to Train Your Dragon series soon lands in theatres, and it is…

By Johanna Eliasson
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Of Horses and Men

Of Horses and Men posits that man and beast are closer than they realise: in a series of…

By Matthew McKernan
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Oculus

The premise of Oculus is not terribly original – a typically happy family's lives disintegrate when subjected to…

By Mark Sempill
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Secret Sharer

For all the exotic locales he wrote about, it was always the open sea that loomed largest over…

By Stephen Mayne
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Knocked for Six

Knocked for Six is an Australian comedy about a group of cricketers who go on tour in India.…

By Matthew McKernan
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22 Jump Street

The dream team are sent back to recapture their youth all over again in this follow up to…

By Alex Finch
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The Young and Prodigious T S Spivet

It’s been 13 years since Jean-Pierre Jeunet released Amelie, an enchantingly romantic film that changed the face of French…

By Violet Myers