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Lou
Drama M 80
John Hurt, Emma Barclay , Lily Bell-Tindley
Written & Directed by Belinda Chayko


Filmed in Murwillumbah, LOU is a tender story about the relationship between 11-year-old Lou and her grandfather. Not long after Lou’s father walks out of her life, her grandfather crashes in. But when Doyle comes to stay, Lou discovers, against all her expectations, the healing power of love.

Review by David Stratton - At The Movies
“LOU is the work of filmmaker Belinda Chayko, her first film in a decade. It's a most beautifully performed piece by all concerned, with a notable presence from its young cast. Lily Bell Tindley is so impressive in the title role, embodying a young girl on the verge of puberty, having too much responsibility for her age and who is starting to set herself up as very much her own woman.
John Hurt is wonderful as Doyle, a man who senses what he's lost and is seeking to reclaim what was good about his past. And Emily Barclay gives another nuanced performance. This is a small film with a lovely heart.”
DAVID: “Okay. Well, look, the performances, I agree, are really wonderful. Lily Bell Tindley, a remarkable - how old is she: 11, 12, something like that?
MARGARET: Yes.
DAVID: She's really, really good. Some child actors are just astonishing and I think she's very, very fine and John Hurt gives another fine performance. It's a small film but I did like it very much.
MARGARET: That ability to access... that core of emotion in a film like this is sort of like... it takes a talent.”

Review by Louise Keller: Urban Cinefile
"The mood is what writer director Belinda Chayko captures best as we become engrossed in the reality of 11 year old Lou (Lily Bell-Tindley), drawn to the fantasy world of her delusional grandfather. It's a remarkable performance from Bell-Tindley, who transmits great assurance as the defensive, indignant and hostile daughter whose resentment and anger turns to acceptance and understanding as she begins to understand the beauty and power of love."

MARK NAGLAZAS, The West Australian
“What might have been a creepily off-putting development is handled with marvellous delicacy by Chayko, who walks a fine line between childish fantasy, the dreamy longings of an old man and a rather sad-beautiful replaying of a heartbreaking incident long in the past.”

“While Hurt gives his usual nuanced, layered performance as the man drifting between past and present, the coup here is the casting of Bell-Tindley, who has one of those rare faces in which you can see the future woman.”

“Chayko also has a deft touch with visuals and landscape, with the stunning sub tropical landscape and the burning of the cane fields an arresting metaphor for an identity and personality still in flux.”

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Eclipse
Drama, Romance M 124
Xavier Samuel, Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson

Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob -- knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life.

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Food Inc
Documentary PG 94

filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on the nation’s food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that’s been hidden from the consumer with the consent of our government’s regulatory agencies. Our nation’s food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. Food, Inc. reveals surprising — and often shocking truths — about what we eat, how it’s produced, and what we have become as a nation.

Dennis Schwartz
“You're probably not going to like what you see here, but you'd better hold your nose and choke it down anyway. Food, Inc. is for your own good.”

Gavin Bond Sunday Times
“An activist-made film of considerable interest, Food, Inc is also a piece of investigative journalism that tells us a thousand things that are pertinent to eating everyday food.”

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Letters To Juliet
Romance PG 105
Amanda Seyfried, Vanessa Redgrave


When a young woman travels to the city of Verona, home of the star-crossed lover Juliet Capulet of Romeo and Juliet fame, she joins a group of volunteers who respond to letters to Juliet seeking advice about love. After answering one letter dated 1951, she inspires its author to travel to Italy in search of her long-lost love and sets off a chain of events that will bring a love into both their lives unlike anything they ever imagined

Allan Hunter Daily Express
“Letters From Juliet is far from a great movie. But if you're female or -- like me -- a man with a taste for romance and a fairer deal for our senior citizens, this is one of the year's guiltiest pleasures.”

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Robin Hood
Drama M 140
Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett


Robin Hood chronicles the life of an expert archer, previously interested only in self-preservation, from his service in King Richards army against the French. Upon Richards death, Robin travels to Nottingham, a town suffering from the corruption of a despotic sheriff and crippling taxation, where he falls for the spirited widow Lady Marian (Oscar winner Cate Blanchett), a woman skeptical of the identity and motivations of this crusader from the forest. Hoping to earn the hand of Maid Marian and salvage the village, Robin assembles a gang whose lethal mercenary skills are matched only by its appetite for life. Together, they begin preying on the indulgent upper class to correct injustices under the sheriff.

tonymacklin.net
“Ridley Scott and his usual Oscar-winning crewmates turn the familiar old English legend it into a robust, thumping epic.”
David Stratton The Australian
“A big, sweeping epic executed in a manner that makes all the spectacle and pageantry appear effortless.”

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Shrek Forever After
Animation PG 95
Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz


After challenging an evil dragon, rescuing a beautiful princess and saving your in-laws' kingdom, what's an ogre to do? Well, if you're Shrek, you suddenly wind up a domesticated family man. Instead of scaring villagers away like he used to, a reluctant Shrek now agrees to autograph pitch forks. Whats happened to this ogre's roar? Longing for the days when he felt like a "real ogre," Shrek is duped into signing a pact with the smooth-talking dealmaker, Rumpelstiltskin. Shrek suddenly finds himself in a twisted, alternate version of Far Far Away, where ogres are hunted, Rumpelstiltskin is king and Shrek and Fiona have never met. Now, it's up to Shrek to undo all he's done in the hopes of saving his friends, restoring his world and reclaiming his one True Love.

Andrew L. Urban Urban Cinefile
"Brilliant animation, 3D magic and a subversive script filled with quirky humour transports us to Swamp Heaven for this perfect Shrek final chapter. It's a whirlwind of a film”

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The Concert
Comedy, Drama M 120
Aleksei Guskov, Mélanie Laurent


Thirty years ago, Andrei Simoniovich Filipov, the renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man at the Bolshoi, he learns by accident that the Châtelet Theater in Paris invites the Bolshoi orchestra to play there. He decides to gather together his former musicians and to perform in Paris in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. As a solo violin player to accompany his old Jewish or Gypsy musicians he wants Anne-Marie Jacquet, a young virtuoso. If they all overcome the hardships ahead this very special concert will be a triumph.

Sarah Boslaugh
“The Concert delivers one of cinema's most moving and satisfying emotional payoffs in years, transforming a film that is pretty good into a film of true greatness.”

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Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace
Drama MA


Author Stieg Larsson, who died suddenly in 2004, left behind three unpublished novels, known as the "Millennium" trilogy, which have become a global sensation, elevating Larsson to the world’s second best-selling author last year (behind "The Kite Runner"’s Khaled Hosseini). "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" is one of the decade’s major literary success stories, selling over 8,000,000 copies worldwide and the film adaptation is the highest grossing Swedish film in history and 2009’s highest-grossing European production

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, ruthless computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from almost forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vanger's are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.

Harvey S. Karten Compuserve
“Nothing beats a good whodunit.”
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel
'The Swedish thriller 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' miraculously causes the adjectives 'convoluted' and 'implausible' to become positive”
Margot Harrison Seven Days
“... a sensational, spine-chilling thriller that will leave you clenching the arms on your theater chair until your knuckles turn white.”

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Toy Story 3
Comedy, Animated 94 Min
Tom Hanks, Joan Cusack


Andy departs for college, leaving his favourite toys for storage, but keeps Woody. Mum thinks he’s throwing them away and gives them to the local playcare centre. Something far worse is happening at the playcare centre from which only Woody can save his unsuspecting friends.

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The Prince of Persia
Adventure/Fantasy M 111
Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley


Set in the mystical lands of Persia, a rogue prince and a mysterious princess race against dark forces to safeguard an ancient dagger capable of releasing the Sands of Time -- a gift from the gods that can reverse time and allow its possessor to rule the world.

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The Secret In Their Eyes
Drama, Thriller MA 127 (Subtitled)

Retired justice agent Benjamín Espósito is writing a novel, using an old closed case as the source material. The case, which dealt with a horrible rape and murder of a young woman and mother, was not resolved correctly in Benjamin's opinion. Although he is aware that historical accuracy is not paramount for the novel, the process of revisiting the case is more an issue of closure for him. He teams up with his drunken friend, Sandoval. Clumsily, they go around gathering clues and information to find the actual murderer, making a scene almost everywhere they go. He tries to speak to the key players in the case, most specifically Irene, who still works in the justice department and who he has always been attracted to but never pursued due to the differences in their ages and social classes. The other issue is that the killer is still at large and may still be a force to reckoned with.

BrianOrndorf.com
“The Secret in Their Eyes is a best-of-both-worlds affair, combining old-school storytelling with modern-day technique.”
Rebecca Barry Flicks.co.nz
“An expertly crafted murder-and-more mystery that should appeal to fans of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' and other ambitious thrillers that work to attract a mass audience...”
Rob Thomas Times
“The Secret in Their Eyes joins No Way Out and The Sixth Sense in my personal trove of rare movies with surprise, credible endings I didn't guess.
tonymacklin.net
“A structurally sound, splendidly acted thriller, achieving a continuous swirl of suspicion other directors would sell their own mothers to achieve.”

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