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The Men Who Stare At Goats (Movie Review)

GUEST ARTICLE: Stephen Root (owner of the famous red Swingline stapler in Office Space is an iconic screen presence in his own way. And so when a movie starts off with him insisting that he has psychic powers – that he can stop a hamster’s heart – a certain type of cinemagoer is bound to [...]

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Starlight Cinema Sydney: Watch Movies Under The Stars (Review)

The sound and video quality may be great but watching movies at a standard suburban megaplex cinemas isn’t much fun anymore. In comparison watching a movie at Starlight Cinema Sydney was more of an “experience” and reminded me a lot of Broome’s outdoor deckchair cinema.

Located at North Sydney Oval, Starlight Cinema operates from January [...]

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Are Blu-ray Players and Blu-ray Movies Worth Buying?

A Blu-ray Disc (also known as BD or BluRay) is the same physical size and shape as a DVD but can store 5 to 10 times more information (25 to 50 GB data capacity) than a DVD which allows Blu-ray disks to store whole movies or several TV episodes in full 1080P high definition video, [...]

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The Wire – Best TV Series Ever? (HBO/DVD Review)

GUEST ARTICLE: From the home of TV excellence; HBO, comes The Wire, a show that leaves no character; no matter how small, by the wayside.

Cops and robbers, you thought those great shows like Hill street blues were done and dusted didn’t you? You were thinking all we get nowadays is ‘cop only’ shows [...]

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At The Movies With Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton (ABC TV Review)

GUEST ARTICLE: Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton are to movie reviews what Vegemite is to sandwich spreads: an Australian icon. But unlike Vegemite, Margaret and David are still loved after they changed the name of their TV show to “At The Movies” when they switched from SBS TV to ABC TV a few years ago.

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The Road (Movie Review) based on book by Cormac McCarthy

GUEST ARTICLE: At the start of The Road we realise that some unnamed event has rendered the earth uninhabitable. No plants or animals are left, the earth is growing colder and grayer each day, and the few people who remain alive are scavenging for food that can still be found.

The film traces the journey of [...]

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Samurai Jack cult animation classic tv show (DVD Review)

Samurai Jack is a little known animated series which was broadcast on cable TV’s Cartoon Network from 2001-2004 and has gained fans since then as a cult classic. The series was noted for its highly detailed, outline-free, masking-based animation, use of splitscreens as well as for its cinematic style and pacing.

Jack (as he becomes [...]

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Digital TV in Australia: Benefits, Channels, Freeview and Availability

GUEST ARTICLE: Many people are unaware of the visual and audio benefits Digital TV offers compared to analog TV, the extra digital only channels available like ABC2 and that analog TV will be slowly phased out in Australia by 2013.
Digital TV has been available in Australia for many years, since January 2001 in major cities [...]

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The Games Series 1 and 2 (ABC TV / DVD) Review

After 10 years of waiting, fans of the show can finally buy the full DVD set of ABC TV’s satirical series The Games Series 1 and The Games Series 2 on DVD from ABC Shop. I personally rate The Games in the top 5 list of best Australian comedy TV series.

The Games charts the [...]

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Dakar Rally Coverage on SBS TV and Website

SBS TV will broadcast daily highlights of one of the toughest races in the world, the Dakar Rally at 6pm from Sunday 3rd January to Monday 18th January 2010 as it returns to Argentina and Chile in what should be an even more challenging and exciting rally than last year.

Dakar Rally Australian motorcycle entrantChristophe [...]

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The Colbert Report review (ABC2 Digital TV)

I have great news for you Nation – the Emmy and Peabody award-winning comedy series Colbert Report hosted by Stephen Colbert is coming to ABC2 TV on January 5th 2010. It will be broadcast at 740pm Tuesdays to Fridays with the global edition highlights package on Mondays.
ABC TV will swiftly download each episode via satellite [...]

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Black Adder The Ultimate Edition Remastered DVD Boxset (Review)

The first Blackadder series was broadcast on BBC TV over 26 years ago yet it’s managed to gain cult classic comedy status by attracting new fans from each following generation and served as a launchpad for the careers of its main actors Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Miranda Richardson, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.

Black [...]

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Family Guy: Something, Something, Something, Dark Side (Review)

You know it’s a Family Guy spoof of Star Wars when the opening titles include an animated elephant scampering across the screen to the tune of the Victory March. Fans of Fox’s ever-popular Family Guy franchise have come to expect it to deliver below the belt humour and controversy and this movie delivers in spades.

Something, [...]

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Pixar’s UP – best animated movie of 2009 reviewed (DVD & Bluray)

Last night after a hard days work I sat down with much anticipation to watch a media preview DVD of Pixar’s animated movie “UP”. I didn’t have time to watch UP at the movie theatres but many people had told me that it was the best animated movie of 2009 so I had high hopes [...]

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The Storm Warriors – CGI Fantasy Kung Fu (Movie Review)

For one reason or another I’ve never watched a whole chinese martial arts movie so when my friend Scott invited me to a preview screening of the new CGI “Wuxia” (fantasy kung fu film) Storm Warriors I went along to give this film genre a try.
I’d describe the movie as a combination of martial arts, [...]

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