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Celebrities Go Real
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By
Megan Spencer
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Earlier this year we saw great American actor Ed Harris playing the imitable composer
Beethoven in
Copying Beethoven; post-Virginia Woolf in
The Hours, there is Oscar-buzz again for Nicole Kidman in Fur, playing
another female artist who took her own life tragically early, photographer Dinae
Arbus. And Fantastic Four’s Ioan
Gruffudd is also earning accolades for his portrayal of real life historical figure
William Wilberforce, an English gent turned anti-slavery crusader, in Michael Apted’s
bio-pic
Amazing Grace...
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Wrestlers go Hollywood
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By
Megan Spencer
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In February 2007 Wrestlemania – described on Wikipedia as the annual "Super Bowl
event" of the wrestling world – reached its landmark 24th year. It was the most
successful Wrestlemania ever, with a record 80 000+ fans in attendance and "the
highest-grossing pay-per-view in WWE history as well as the highest-grossing event
in North American professional wrestling history"...
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Megan Spencer has spent way too much of her life in the dark, all for a
good cause though - watching movies as a professional film critic. for the last
six and a half years she has been serving the ever-increasing hunger for film and
DVD reviews as radio triple j's resident film critic, and a year ago joined the
new line up of long-running SBS-TV film review program, The Movie Show.
And the impossible question to ask a film critic: what's her favourite film? "Blue
Velvet would be at the top of the list, so would
Fight Club... But then again
American In Paris makes me cry every time."
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Trick or Treat TV
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By
Scott Gooding
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So you don’t believe in celebrating Halloween because you think it’s yet another
irrelevant commercialised scam from the US of A. Well the ritual does have the saving
grace of having inspired some excellent ‘very special episodes’ of American television
shows. Put on your witch’s hat and cape and trick or treat your way through these
Halloween delights; all great stuff to watch while carving that pumpkin jack-o-lantern
in the image of your favourite TV star!...
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TV Freak
Scott Goodings is crazy about TV. Scott's first TV memory is an episode
of "Matlock Police" called "A Piece Of Cake". His first experience of the medium
in colour was seeing a Hector The Cat road safety commercial through the window
of the CBA bank in Cheltenham in 1975.
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28 Weeks Later
28 Days Later was a traditional British sci-fi horror with added smarts and innovative
style. This sequel extends the story in intelligent, suspenseful way ...
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Noise
Cunningly using sound to help engross the viewer and, on occasion, drive the action
on-screen, what’s happening in your ears is just as central to ...
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Blades of Glory
Danny Dan Dunne (Gosling) teaches a class of mostly black teenagers in a tough high
school in Brooklyn, where his offbeat methods inspire the students ...
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Bridge To Terabithia
In the heartwarming-family-film department, this adventure of friendship and life
lessons is imaginative and engaging. Of course, it presents children with the radical
concept of playing outdoors ... Read full
review
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For more reviews, exclusive interviews and much more, go to www.empireonline.com.au
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Empire compiled a list of films unlike any other. Rather than focus on the “best”
or "most popular", Empire chose the
250 Greatest Films You’ve Never Seen. The forgotten gems, the undiscovered
classics, the shouldabeen-hits-but-weren’t. Broken into ten categories including
action, drama and comedy, the 250 list included 25 Australian and New Zealand films
which, really, you should have watched by now. What are you waiting for? Add them
to your Queue today.
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Megan Spencer on "Lovestruck"
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How did you come across the subject of your film,
Sue Chuter?
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We met by chance in 1995; I was working at a CD store and she came in to buy some
blank VHS tapes. She was wearing a wrestling tee shirt with an obscure Memphis wrestler
on the front of it which she had had specially made. It all went from there! |
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You may have noticed that the Quickflix website has a fresh new look. In addition,
we've made some enchancements including easier navigation and search, and added
some exciting new movie collections. We welcome any feedback and suggestion to
webfeedback@quickflix.com.au and hope you enjoy browsing the new site!
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Forrest:"Now you wouldn't believe me if I told you, but I could
run like the wind blows. From that day on, if I was ever going somewhere, I was
running!"
Forrest Gump-1994
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