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Engaging comedy has soul

Emily Blunt and Jason Segel in The Five Year Engagement.

WITH Hollywood comedy mogul Judd Apatow as producer and a charismatic cast of funny-men such as Chris Pratt of Parks and Recreation and Chris Parnell of 30 Rock, The Five-Year Engagement should have been much more amusing. more »

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Young Troye’s reticence no act

Troye Sivan’s acting career has been anything but by the book.

TEEN actor Troye Sivan doesn’t mind being semi-naked in front of the camera, kissing gorgeous girls on cue or belting out the high notes on demand as he does in new coming-of-age comedy Spud. more »

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Big dreams in a small cinema

Owner Matthew Darch, aka Player 1, at 1UP Microcinema in Northbridge.

SINCE he was 16, 32-year-old Matthew Darch (aka Player 1) has kept a record of every film he has ever seen. more »

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French Film Fest 2012

OUI Oui – the annual touring Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2012 is making a return visit to Perth, serving up the very best contemporary cinema direct from the land that gave us the Peugeot, beret and croissant. more »

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Somerville’s 60 great years

Somerville’s Jonathan Holloway and Madeline Bates.

FROM the days of black-and-white to the story of a banned Iranian filmmaker, the Somerville outdoor cinema at UWA is turning back the clock to celebrate 60 years of screening. more »

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Comedy of manners

Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C Reilly team up for Polanski’s latest offering.

IF Roman Polanski wasn’t such a fervent filmmaker, you might assume he had some real estate ambition or interior design objective considering how well he knows his way around an apartment. more »

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WA flicks some of best at Fest

Flickerfest festival director Bronywn Kidd.

THE filmmakers behind Aussie critical and commercial hits Animal Kingdom, Samson and Delilah and Red Dog have one little-known fact in common – they all cut their teeth at the Flickerfest International Short Film Festival before ‘making it big’. more »

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Extras roll up for film

Musicians Zoe Chua, Rebecca Hooper and Belinda Porte rehearsing before members of the film crew. Pictures: Louise White www.communitypix.com.au d373500

FILMMAKERS were blessed with a steady crowd and fine weather as they gathered at Rockingham Beach earlier this month to shoot a five-minute short to enter in the inaugural City of Rockingham Winter Short Film Festival in June. more »

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Comedy more sweet than bitter

Benoit Poelvoorde as Jean-Rene and Isabelle Carre as Angelique in Romantics Anonymous.

IF there is one thing that French cinema does well, it is highly-strung characters. more »

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J Edgar

Clyde Tolson (Armie Hammer) and John Edgar Hoover (Leonardo DiCaprio).

WOULDN'T life be that much better if you could simply 'make a file' on your suspected enemies? more »

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Weekend

WHEN director Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain was released in 2005, it was widely perceived as a watershed. more »

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Young Adult

EVERYONE would know a Mavis Gary type – the most loved (and loathed) girl in school. more »

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The Orator

JUST as we have ‘new world’ wines, so too we have ‘new world’ films. more »

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Buck

IN a celebrity-centric media culture obsessed with the Kardashian sisters' line of handbags and the arrival of Beyonce and Jay-Z's curiously named newborn, it's delightful to discover a doco interested in championing the everyday man and woman. more »

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The Muppets

EVERY few months or so, yet another music legend from an era past gives the world tour circuit one more whirl in order to pocket some coin for their dwindling royalty fund and gratify their fiercely loyal fans keen to relive their youth. more »

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