 | | World’s Greatest Dad | | Release: Jul 27, 2010 | | · out now · |  |  |
|  | In one of his best roles of recent years, Robin Williams underplays as a teacher whose dreams of being a writer have only amounted to a pile of reject letters. And though he tries hard as a father, his teenage son has turned out insufferable and socially unredeeming. But... more |
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|  | | Brothers | | Release: Jul 16, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | A thought-provoking look at love, loss and reflection, Brothers posits an awkward dilemma for a soldier (Tobey Maguire), presumed dead, who finally returns home from Afghanistan to find his wife (Natalie Portman) and daughters being cared for by his ex-con sibling (Jake... more |
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 | | Remember Me | | Release: Jul 14, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | It's a big month for Twilight fans with a new movie in cinemas, two tie-in documentaries on DVD and this romantic drama starring Robert Pattinson in a mortal role. And guess what, underneath the pasty vampire make-up and anguished stares is a guy who can act.
RPattz convinces... more |
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|  | | Youth In Revolt | | Release: Jul 22, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | Based on a cult novel of the same name by C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt is a comedy vehicle for the affable and dependable Michael Cera. Following roles in Superbad and Juno, the young star is now the go-to man whenever Hollywood requires a romantic lead with sensitive but... more |
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 | | Entourage: Season 6 | | Release: Jul 21, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | Hollywood hotshot Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier) and his buddies Eric, Turtle, and brother Johnny Drama start to grow up and do their own thing in the sixth helping of HBO’s hit Hollywood satire. Vince is doing a Scorsese movie, Eric is torn between his whiny new girlfriend... more |
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|  | | Valentine’s Day | | Release: Jul 21, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | Rom-com specialist Garry Marshall (Pretty Woman) plays cupid with an all-star cast in a chick flick armed with the ultimate romantic title and the ultimate line-up of screen talent. Jessica Alba, Julia Roberts, Jessica Biel, Patrick Dempsey, Anne Hathaway, Queen Latifah,... more |
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 | | Edge of Darkness | | Release: Jul 07, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | Two of the best recent Bond films have been GoldenEye and Casino Royale, both directed by Martin Campbell. With the political suspense thriller Edge of Darkness, Campbell has revisited a BAFTA award-winning mini-series he helmed for the BBC in 1985.
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|  | | Green Zone | | Release: Jul 21, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | Matt Damon reteams with Bourne Supremacy and Ultimatum director Paul Greengrass for another relentless action thriller, this time set during the 2003 Iraq conflict when the Weapons of Mass Destruction were still a frightening possibility. Green Zone drops Damon in the war... more |
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 | | Crazy Heart | | Release: Jul 21, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | Jeff Bridges was always the sentimental favourite to take out the Best Actor Oscar at this year’s Academy Awards, having received four prior nominations during his long and memorable career. In Crazy Heart, Bridges inhabits the role of hard boozing, broken down country and... more |
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|  | | The Men Who Stare At Goats | | Release: Jul 14, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | "More of this is true than you would believe" declares this movie's opening disclaimer. Ewan McGregor plays a journalist stationed in Iraq who smells a story when he meets George Clooney, who claims to be a member of a covert US Army branch from the 1980s that used paranormal... more |
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 | | Alice in Wonderland | | Release: Jul 01, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | Q. What do you get if combine the following ingredients: Johnny Depp in a fright wig, crazy production design, madcap fantasy, a Danny Elfman score and Helena Bonham Carter looking grotesque? A. A Tim Burton film.
This time, the eccentric filmmaker has put his own unique... more |
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|  | | Humpday | | Release: Jul 14, 2010 | | · out now · | |
| | | Two best mates making a homemade porno for an art project might sound like the latest gross-out frat boy teen comedy, but Humpday has more than one surprise in store and takes bromance to a whole new level. The guys in question (Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard) are the ones... more |
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 | | A Single Man | | Release: Jul 07, 2010 | | · out now · | |
| | | Top end menswear designer Tom Ford proves he’s no slouch behind the camera either, with directorial debut and self-funded labour of love A Single Man. Based on a 1964 novel, Colin Firth is an English professor contemplating suicide following the death of his longtime lover,... more |
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|  | | Five Minutes of Heaven | | Release: Jul 14, 2010 | | · out now · | |
| | | History and war movie buffs will know Oliver Hirschbiegel as the director of Downfall, the remarkable and acclaimed account of Hitler’s last days. Hirschbiegel’s latest, Five Minutes in Heaven, is a look at the conflict in Northern Ireland, starring Liam Neeson as a reformed... more |
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 | | Dear John | | Release: Jul 02, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | Former model Channing Tatum has come a long way, winning coveted action roles in Fighting and G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. His tender and vulnerable side is revealed in Dear John, as a soldier who falls in love with college student Amanda Seyfried while on leave.
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|  | | The Bounty Hunter | | Release: Jul 28, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | The sexy star-powered combination of Jennifer Aniston (Friends) and Gerard Butler (Law Abiding Citizen) will be sufficient reason for the ladies to track this one down. Butler’s the ex-cop turned titular mercenary who learns that his next target is his ex-wife (Aniston),... more |
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 | | My One And Only | | Release: Jul 15, 2010 | | · out now · | |
| | | Of all the tabloid faves, Renée Zellweger has the most respect and command of her craft, and she’s back on form following the disappointing New in Town. With two sons in tow, Zellweger, a wife in her forties, decides to leave her philandering husband to find another provider... more |
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|  | | After . Life | | Release: Jul 16, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | Liam Neeson’s just been on the big screen hamming it up as Zeus in Clash of the Titans and can currently be seen as Colonel Hannibal Smith in The A-Team remake. Clearly this veteran actor is still a studio and audience fave, thus making After.Life an intriguing proposition... more |
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 | | Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant | | Release: Jul 21, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | A vampire movie for teens, based on a best-selling book series; no, it’s not the latest Twilight flick but rather an adaptation of the young adult novels by Darren Shan – compressing several books into one film. John C. Reilly stars as the resident vampire in a travelling... more |
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|  | | Eastbound + Down: Season 1 | | Release: Jul 28, 2010 | | · out now · | |
| | | Somewhere in Will Ferrell’s 42-year-old brain is a place reserved exclusively for the flawed psyche of erstwhile brilliant sportspeople. We saw this in The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby and Blades of Glory, and it’s here again in the Ferrell-produced Eastbound and Down – namely... more |
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 | | Doctor Who: Series 5 | | Release: Jul 01, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | The first of the new Doctor Who episodes arrive on DVD and Blu-ray this month. Volume One contains three stories, two of them scripted by new series producer/writer Steven Moffat. The Eleventh Hour introduces the youthful Matt Smith as the Time Lord's eleventh incarnation.... more |
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|  | | The Pit and the Pendulum | | Release: May 05, 2010 | | | | Stuart Gordon, who instantly endeared himself to horror fans with his over-the-top adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s Re-Animator, turns his attention to another literary horror great with this sex and blood soaked version of Edgar Allan Poe’s Inquisition tale, previously filmed... more |
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 | | Underbelly: The Golden Mile | | Release: Jul 01, 2010 | | · out now · | |
| | | While author and model Tara Moss came out just before this DVD release to slam the true crime genre, Australia’s favourite crime dramatisation Underbelly makes a compelling argument that it should continue to thrive. Channel 9’s most recent Underbelly series might’ve dressed... more |
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|  | | Chappelle’s Show | | Release: Jul 07, 2010 | | · out now · | |
| | | Anyone familiar with the story of comedian Dave Chappelle is probably still scratching their heads at the series of events that infamously saw him go from a man on a reported US$55 million contract – scripting, producing and starring in arguably the greatest US sketch comedy... more |
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 | | Dumbo: 70th Anniversary | | Release: Jul 01, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | Walt Disney add to their growing range of classic animation on DVD/ Blu-ray with the release of this 1941 favourite, featuring an ostracised elephant with big assets. Celebrating the movie’s impending 70th Anniversary, the filmmakers could never have imagined that Dumbo... more |
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|  | | Love Happens | | Release: Jun 25, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | Burke Ryan (Aaron Eckhart) is on the verge of becoming a celebrity self-help guru after writing a bestseller about coping with grief. However, unbeknown to his fans, he has not applied the same principles to his own life and has still not come to terms with the death of... more |
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 | | Daybreakers | | Release: Jun 16, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | With vampires currently hotter than an Australian summer, local production Daybreakers breaks the trend of the tortured romantic immortal to return the undead to their monstrous roots. It’s the near future and a vampire epidemic has left the bloodsuckers outnumbering humans,... more |
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|  | | Little Ashes | | Release: May 03, 2010 | | | | The presence of the Twilight hunk Robert Pattinson is the main drawcard of this intriguing biopic set mainly in Spain in the 1920s. It’s a fictionalised account of the relationship between legendary surrealist Salvador Dali (Pattinson) and troubled writer/ poet Federico... more |
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 | | Shutter Island | | Release: Jun 17, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | An isolated island. An asylum for the criminally insane. A raging hurricane. A tantalising mystery. A master filmmaker. Combine all these ingredients and you’ve got Shutter Island, the perfect flick for a chilly winter evening indoors with a quality bottle of red wine. Leonardo... more |
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|  | | The Hurt Locker | | Release: Jun 25, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | An indie film about a US bomb disposal squad in Baghdad not only beat the almighty Avatar to the coveted Best Picture Oscar this year, but also broke a hoodoo surrounding movies involving the Iraq war. The Hurt Locker is one of the most suspenseful films you’ll see this... more |
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 | | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakuel | | Release: Jun 02, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | Everyone’s favourite musical rodents have to deal with the trappings of stardom in this sequel – sorry, make that ‘squeakquel’ – to the 2007 blockbuster. They’ve also been left in the haphazard care of Jason Lee’s young cousin (Zachary Levi from TV’s Chuck), and worse, there’s... more |
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|  | | Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief | | Release: Jun 29, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | High school student Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) has a strange affinity for water and discovers it's because his father was the Greek god Poseidon, and his own dormant powers are now beginning to manifest themselves. When Zeus's famous lightning bolt is stolen, war threatens... more |
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 | | Pontypool | | Release: Jun 30, 2010 | | · out now · | |
| | | Talk Radio meets 28 Days Later in Pontypool, a high concept thriller in which a virus that turns humans into blood crazed maniacs is transmitted through language. Yep, words – and our understanding of them – are the threat, and the action takes place in a radio station in... more |
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|  | | Invictus | | Release: Jun 02, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | Clint Eastwood's latest film as director, after 2008's Changeling, is another historically-based drama. Invictus is also a sports film, as South African president Nelson Mandela (Morgan Freeman), in his first term, arranges a mixed rugby match to ease post Apartheid tensions... more |
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 | | Nine | | Release: Jun 02, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | Daniel Day-Lewis plays a famous Italian director, Guido Contini, whose professional and private life reaches a crisis point in this musical based on Fellini’s 8½. A dazzling list of female co-stars feature as the distractions and temptations in Contini’s life, as he struggles... more |
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|  | | Precious | | Release: Jun 09, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | A movie about an illiterate, obese black teenager with an abusive mother, a child to her father (and another one on the way) doesn't exactly sound like cheery viewing. Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire is undeniably grim, but it's also a moving, powerful and... more |
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 | | Bright Star | | Release: Jun 03, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | The latest costume drama from acclaimed director Jane Campion (The Piano) follows the doomed romance between 19th century poet John Keats (Ben Wishaw) and the flirtatious daughter of his landlady, Fanny Brawne (played by Aussie Abbie Cornish). Despite a vow to remain together... more |
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|  | | The Princess and The Frog | | Release: Jun 16, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | The first hand-drawn animated feature from Walt Disney since Home on the Range in 2004, The Princess and The Frog is also notable in being the first Disney title to break racial stereotypes for the lead characters. Directed by Disney veterans Ron Clements and John Musker,... more |
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 | | Fantastic Mr. Fox | | Release: Jun 16, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | The books of Roald Dahl have been fashioned into family movie favourites like James and the Giant Peach and Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Fantastic Mr. Fox is the latest screen adaptation and features George Clooney as the voice of the titular character, a reformed... more |
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|  | | Claymore Collection | | Release: Jun 16, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | The combination of dark fantasy, brutal action and a hot heroine has made Claymore a firm favourite with the anime fraternity, so this striking new High-Def version is a welcome addition to the growing range of Japanese animation titles now available on Blu-ray. For the... more |
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 | | In The Loop | | Release: Jun 23, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | As well as being one of the best political satires in ages, this wickedly funny British comedy takes cinematic swearing to dizzying new heights of invention. Peter Capaldi is a foul-mouthed press secretary to the British PM, who has to draw on all his Machiavellian skills... more |
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|  | | Mad Men: Season 3 | | Release: Jun 02, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | The third season of Emmy and Golden Globe winning series Mad Men is one of the most anticipated adult TV dramas for the month of June. Despite the strains of season two, the Drapers are expecting their third child, and attempt to salvage their marriage.
As well, the aftermath... more |
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 | | Sanctuary: Season 2 | | Release: Jun 09, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | Return to the halfway house for monsters, aliens and 'abnormals' in the second season of this sci-fishow that began life as a series of webisodes and is mostly shot against a green-screen. Stargate's Amanda Tapping is the resident scientist whose daughter has been kidnapped... more |
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|  | | Survivors: Series 1 | | Release: Jul 01, 2010 | | · out now · | |
| | | A thrilling update of the 1975 BBC series penned by Dalek creator Terry Nation, Survivors is predicated on the dependable genre staple of a post-apocalypse world and what would happen to those who lived through the catastrophe. A virulent strain of the flu reduces the human... more |
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 | | Carriers | | Release: Jun 03, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | The post-apocalypse genre is enjoying a renaissance of sorts (not that it ever went away) with recent films like The Road and The Book of Eli. Carriers is less a scorched earth adventure than an infectious virus thriller.
A pandemic has already decimated the human population... more |
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|  | | Law Abiding Citizen | | Release: Jun 03, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | A game of cat and mouse develops between Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler in this vigilante thriller. Butler, formerly a family man, has since turned into a sociopath following a miscarriage of justice in which the killer of his family was set free.
Not only does he target... more |
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 | | Tooth Fairy | | Release: Jun 16, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | Dwayne Johnson, the actor formerly known as The Rock, has been doing it for the kids lately, with Race to Witch Mountain, Planet 51 and now this amiable comedy where the fantasy of Elf meets the action of Kindergarten Cop. This time he's an ice hockey player known for rough... more |
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|  | | Doghouse | | Release: Jun 23, 2010 | | · out now · | | |
| | | In this irreverent splatter comedy, Danny Dyer (Severance) and mates try to get over their female problems by descending on a town where the fair sex outnumber blokes 3:1. What they don’t count on is a viral infection that has turned the local women into zombies with a lust... more |
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