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Searching for Sugar Man

Searching for Sugar Man is an engaging documentary centred around the quest by two middle aged South Africans to discover the fate of the enigmatic Rodriguez, the greatest 70s rock icon who never was.




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2 Days In New York - Film Review

The plot such as it is the usual bourgeois breakdown and the final act is a shambles more like a dud war movie than a delicious comedy.




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Step up to the Plate (Entre les Bras)

This beautifully filmed documentary is both an exploration into Bras' kitchen genius and a moving portrait of family ties and the passing of generations.




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The Sessions

This touching film from director/writer Ben Lewin bravely tackles a taboo subject with warmth and humour.




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Movie Review: Liberal Arts

A sweet, gentle story about a sweet, gentle man who loves books, loved uni, and is looking for love in all the wrong places.




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Coldplay Mylo Xyloto tour DVD a document of riches

One of the world's biggest bands delivers one of history's most ambitious stadium concerts.




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Searching for Sugar Man unveils one of music's greatest stories

Two South African music fanatics embark on a life-changing journey to uncover the story behind one of their country's favourite, but enigmatic artists.




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Clare Calvet's Weekend Reading: "The Waterlow Killings" and "Dolly"

CRIME NIGHT





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Picturing New York: Photographs from the Museum of Modern Art

If Perth got the kind of photographic makeover that New York enjoys, it would be a fortunate city, says ABC 720's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie




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Django Unchained

Quentin Tarantino's new opus blends many styles and genres in a confronting and outrageous fashion, and the result is brilliant.





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Fringe World Festival

Perth's Fringe World is brimming with art entrepreneurs, says 720's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie.




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Zero Dark Thirty

Kathryn Bigelow's take on the hunt for Bin Laden is big and bold, and while it lacks an emotional centre, it manages to achieve moments of impressive intensity.




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Night Visions and the Starlab Cosmodome

With a summer this year that has either been super-hot or super-wet, the region's art galleries have offered the perfect air-conditioned cultural afternoon escape.




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Morgan and West and Tumble Circus

What distinguishes Fringe from mainstream? Whimsy and a touch of Circus Interruptus, says 720's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie




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Hitchcock

Hitchcock is a double love story ¬- a love of film and the deep and collaborative love between Alfred Hitchcock and Alma Reville.




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Lincoln

Steven Spielberg's historical drama is a fascinating political study that's both measured and thoughtful, with an electrifying performance from Daniel Day-Lewis.




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Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina is a visual feast, which pays tribute to the vast panorama that is Tolstoy's story.




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La Cucina dell'Arte

Simplicity is the best antidote to over-complex artistic performance, says 720's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie




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Scattered Light and Grazia Toderi

Two Perth Festival light artists take us far beyond the incandescent glow of digitised art, says 720 cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie.



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The Necks

The Necks delivered a mesmerising and surprisingly engaging performance at the Byron Bay Community Centre as part of their current national tour.




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Duck, Death and the Tulip

There is a lot of talk about death in my household. Given we are only out the other side of birth it has taken me quite by surprise.




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Django Unchained

This time Tarantino has turned his curious eyes to the origins and myths of the American Civil War and Django Unchained is the result. This wild and often darkly funny ride is Tarantino at his anti-studio best!




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Anna Karenina

This latest adaptation of Tolstoy's classic novel is a most stylish affair and presents the drama in an inventive fashion.




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Philip Glass in Conversation

Festival conversations are a rewarding way to eavesdrop on how artists create monumental work of our time, says 720's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie.




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A History of Everything

As we left the theatre after seeing this 90-minute show, a young male voice behind me was effusive. "I learned more about world history than I did in the entirety of my school career!" he declared loudly.




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Flight

Flight becomes a morality play of almost biblical power as Whip swerves between facing the fact that he's an addict and just hiding out in a bottle.




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Beautiful Creatures

This supernatural YA novel adaptation is an overwrought affair that fails to cast a spell.




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The Secret River

The Secret River is a classic in the making, says ABC 720 cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie




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Music breaks the summer sonic drought

From Nashville to Paris, two concerts bring the summer cultural drought to an end.




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Lincoln

Spielberg has never been so restrained with his camera, with the aid of deep blue grey cinematography by Janusz Kaminski that adds a daguerreotype historicity to the images as well as creating a kind of visual memento mori to go with this sombre work.




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Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir

Neither the people in favour of Polanski being granted unconditional liberty nor the moral guardians and self righteous accusers are likely to have their opinion much altered as a result of this superficial, yet devastatingly powerful record of an extraordinary life.




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Arlo Guthrie salutes father's legacy in commemorative concert

In musical circles, there's a mythical quality to that name, attached as it is to the father of American protest song, Woody Guthrie.




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Side Effects - Jonathan Dawson Film Review

Side Effects is many things, and finally becomes a full throttle thriller moving ahead at great pace and no little intricacy.




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The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

This comedy about battling magicians may not be incredible or magicial, but its grab bag of stupid jokes is enough to create some decent chuckles.





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A Good Day to Die Hard

The hit action franchise suffers a serious blow with this silly, lightweight and forgettable installment. Yippee-Ki-Yay indeed!




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Listening out for creative approaches to the PhD

It's unusual to go to an art gallery and to be asked to not so much look at the art as listen to it. But this is what you need to do if you go the Northern Rivers Community Gallery in Ballina this week.




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Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

A great and tragic documentary and for all its ability to bear witness to terrible truths, is likely to be swept under the priceless furnishings of the Vatican.




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The Croods

This Stone-Age family adventure features sophisticated animation and primitive storytelling, but offers some pleasing moments.




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Identity Thief

ID theft provides the basis for this unlikely, and largely disappointing, comedy starring Jason Bateman and Melissa McCarthy.




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Rust and Bone (De rouille et d'os)

This is Cotillard as you've never seen her, haunted, broken by life, and in the hands of a great director in Jacques Audiard, a visual wild man who takes no emotional prisoners!




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Oblivion

It's billed as a Tom Cruise movie, but the real star of this sci-fi flick is the stunning visual design.




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Trance

Cassel and MacAvoy are perfectly matched as the two characters most destined for a full throttle, climacteric with so much blood... Macbeth just isn't in it!




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Olympus Has Fallen

It's "Die Hard in the White House" as Gerard Butler seeks to save the day, but this action drama packs few real thrills.




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Endless hits as Bryan Adams opens in Wollongong

Canada's prolific hit-writer opens his Australian tour in the Illawarra with a full house.




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Iron Man 3

The franchise groans under the weight of big set pieces and a growing collection of villains, but Robert Downey Jr continues to save the day.




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Ross Noble

I thought I knew who the UK comedian Ross Noble was, until I saw him perform stand-up.




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NO

NO is the cautionary fable of what can go wrong if you start believing you own hype.