Canberrans are being encouraged to make new recycling habits after Minister for City Services Chris Steel recently launched the new Recycle Right campaign at the recycling discovery hub at Hume. “The Recycle Right campaign is designed to help reduce contamination and ensure that material can be easily recycled back into other products,” Minister Steel commented.…
Five Year Anniversary for Belconnen and Tuggeranong Walk-in Centres
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ACT Minister for Health Rachel Stephen-Smith has acknowledged the dedication of staff at Canberra Health Services’ Belconnen and Tuggeranong Walk-in Centres five years after they opened their doors. Canberra’s Walk-in Centres are one of the Territory’s stand-out public health success stories. The centres are led by a team of highly skilled advanced practice nurses and…
NIDA Opens Applications for 2020
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Australia’s world-famous National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) has opened its applications to study in 2020 for the next generation of artists, technicians and creatives. Applications are open for all of NIDA’s Master, Bachelor and Diploma courses and all aspiring creatives are encouraged to apply. New in 2020, its highly competitive Bachelor of Fine Arts…
MIFF Announces Record-Breaking Program
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Celebrating its 68th year, the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has unveiled its 2019 program – the largest in its history. Featuring 259 feature films, 123 shorts and 16 virtual reality experiences, MIFF 2019 will include 31 world premieres and 160 Australian premieres over 18 electrifying days of cinema. Unveiling his first program as MIFF’s…
NFSA Digitally Restores Bruce Beresford’s Black Robe
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Bruce Beresford’s 1991 film Black Robe, the first feature film co-produced by Australia and Canada, has been digitally restored by the National Film and Sound Archive’s NFSA Restores program. The new digital print will premiere at Melbourne International Film Festival on 17 August, followed by an In conversation session with Mr Beresford on the 18th.…
Mysterious Insanity 3 – Transmorphers
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Director Leigh Scott Starring Matthew Wolf, Amy Weber, Shaley Scott Rated M Score 2/6 A race of alien robots have conquered Earth and forced humanity underground. After 400 years, a small group of humans develop a plan to defeat the mechanical invaders in the ultimate battle between man and machine. For those of you who…
Mysterious Insanity 3 – 100 Degrees Below Zero
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Director R.D. Braunstein Starring Jeff Fahey, Sara Malakul Lane, Marc Ewins Score 1/6 When a chain of volcanic eruptions rips through Europe, the enormous ash cloud blocks out the sun, plunging the continent into a new ice age. An American couple must find their kids and get them out of Paris before it freezes over.…
Mysterious Insanity 3 – Apocalypse Pompeii
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Director R.D. Braunstein Starring Jeff Fahey, Sara Malakul Lane, Marc Ewins Score 1/6 When a chain of volcanic eruptions rips through Europe, the enormous ash cloud blocks out the sun, plunging the continent into a new ice age. An American couple must find their kids and get them out of Paris before it freezes over.…
Greg Kading Speaking Tour of Australia
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Greg Kading, the lead detective of the investigative task force for the infamous Tupac and B.I.G case, is coming to Australia to embark on a world first live show. Greg is a veteran LAPD detective who specialises in gang, narcotic and homicide investigations. After his retirement in 2010, Greg authored the book Murder Rap which…
Mysterious Insanity 3: Nazis at the Center of the Earth
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Director Joseph J. Lawson Starring Dominique Swain, Jake Busey & Christopher Karl Johnson Rated MA Score 1/6 Researchers in Antarctica are abducted by a team of masked storm troopers. They are dragged deep underground to a hidden continent in the center of the earth. Here Nazi survivors, their bodies a horrifying patchwork of decaying and…
Homefront – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Director Michael Wilkins Score 4/6 What happens when you destroy a war memorial and what do you put in its place? These questions faced Arts Officer, Colin James, and Project Manager and Artist, Amanda Gibson as they looked for ways to replace the much-loved Greensborough War Memorial statues, which had stood for 14 years in…
Red Sunday: Healing Through Narrative Therapy – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Director Hannah Cairns Rated 4/6 In the documentary, Red Sunday, community members of rural far east Gippsland, Victoria, Australia recount their experiences regarding the devastating 2014 bush fires, which lasted nearly 70 long, unpredictable, and traumatic days. Red Sunday is the first in a series of reviews of Documentaries that are going to be screened…
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
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Director Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey & Rodney Rothman Starring Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld Rated PG Score 5/6 Teen Miles Morales becomes Spider-Man of his reality, crossing his path with five counterparts from other dimensions to stop a threat for all realities. Perhaps I should have gotten my act together and watched Into the…
Major Payne
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Director Nick Castle Starring Damon Wayans Rated PG Score 3/6 A recently discharged Major, finds himself commanding a group of mismatched Cadets. For those of you who might be interested apparently Major Payne is a loose remake of the 1955 war film The Private War of Major Benson, starring Charlton Heston. Recently I was asked…
John Boyega and Letitia Wright to Star in Small Axe for BBC One
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BBC One, Turbine Studios and Lammas Park are proud to announce that Oscar and Bafta-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen (Widows, Twelve Years A Slave) has cast his TV series entitled Small Axe for BBC One with an all-star British cast including John Boyega and Letitia Wright. The series is executive produced by Tracey Scoffield and David…
La Mama Theatre Rebuilding Fund Receives Boost
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Just over a year after the devastating fire, La Mama Theatre today announced that the million dollar contribution by State Government has been matched by a philanthropic alliance including, Sidney Myer Fund, John T Reid Charitable Trusts, Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation, Gandel Philanthropy and an anonymous donation. Minister for Creative Industries, the Hon. Martin Foley,…
Warner Bros. Pictures Signs Distribution Deal with SF Studios in Sweden
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Warner Bros. Pictures has signed a film distribution agreement with SF Studios in Sweden that will complement the existing distribution agreement that Warner Bros. Pictures already has with SF Studios in Denmark, Norway and Finland, making SF Studios the Nordic partner of Warner Bros. Pictures. SF Studios has been handling the sales, marketing and distribution…
RSPCA ACT Receives Funding Boost
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The ACT Government has delivered over $300,000 of additional funding to the RSPCA ACT to boost animal management and welfare services with new equipment to better resource the shelter. “Each year funding is provided to the RSPCA for the delivery of animal management and welfare services and I am pleased that this year we are…