THIS is a 2008 version of the classic television show that was built around Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 (played originally by Don Adams and Barbara Feldon) as agents working for the spy agency CONTROL...
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THE INCREDIBLE HULK – Hulk entertains in big screen return
BASED on the Marvellous Marvel comic, this story has scientist Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) desperately hunting for a cure to the gamma radiation that poisoned his cells and unleashes the unbridled force of rage within him: The Hulk...
Read More »MONGOL – A fearless rise to power
THIS was the official Kazakhistan entry for the 2007 Oscars for Best Foreign Language films and, in fact, one of the five finalists...
Read More »MY BROTHER IS AN ONLY CHILD
IN the early 1960s, a number of Italian directors, some of them soon to be big names like Bolognini and Pasolini, made films about disaffected young men in and around Rome (Il Bell' Antonio, Accatone)...
Read More »UNFINISHED SKY – Finding courage to love again
THIS is an Australian movie that has been a firm audience favourite on the film festival circuit, wherever it has been shown...
Read More »INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL – Indy’s back in action
PREMIERED at the Cannes International Film Festival on May 18, and affectionately known as "Indy IV", this is the most recent of the Indiana Jones series and it returns Harrison Ford as Dr Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr to frontline action...
Read More »THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN – A film not to be missed
ONE year after the incredible events of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the Kings and Queens of Narnia find themselves back in that faraway wondrous realm, only to discover that more than 1300 years have passed in Narnian time...
Read More »THE COUNTERFEITERS – Gripping tale of moral choices
THIS is an extraordinarily well-crafted Austrian-German film, which won the Oscar for the best foreign movie in 2008 and was nominated for best direction at the German Film Awards and Berlin International Film Festival in 2007...
Read More »THEN SHE FOUND ME – Searching for happiness
BASED on the book of the same name by Elinor Lipman, Then She Found Me introduces us to April Epner (Helen Hunt), who is 39 years old...
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