The incident involving a truck smashing an excavator into Acton Tunnel, Parkes Way on Tuesday (20/10/15) highlights the importance of building city resilience, say members of built environment body Consult Australia working to reopen the site. Kevin Keith, ACT Manager for Consult Australia explained that City resilience is the capacity of people and places to…
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Alec Baldwin Named Face of La Dolce Italia 2016
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Television and Movie star Alec Baldwin, has been named as the face of La Dolce Italia 2016 in Melbourne. Mr. Baldwin will kick off the La Dolce Italia festival in February 2016 as guest of honour at several key festival events including the La Dolce Italia Charity Gala. In its second year, the Gala is…
Teletubbies Revival
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Teletubbies, one of the most iconic and influential children’s series of the last twenty years, is sure to delight a whole new generation of children and their families when the brand new series featuring the loveable antics of Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa and Po. Global phenomenon Teletubbies first launched in March 1997 and became one…
Legendary and Warner Bros announce Godzilla and King Kong movies
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Legendary and Warner Bros. Pictures have come together to announce three new movies featuring Godzilla and King Kong. Legendary Pictures CEO, Thomas Tull, and Kevin Tsujihara, Chairman and CEO, Warner Bros announced that the initial trio of films are KONG: SKULL ISLAND in 2017; GODZILLA 2 in 2018; and then GODZILLA VS. KONG, which arrives…
Good Mourning Mrs. Brown Tour Extra Shows Added
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Mrs. Brown’s Boys is returning to Australia in 2016 in the hilarious play Good Mourning Mrs. Brown. It’s the second play in the Mrs. Brown five part trilogy. Starring Brendan O’Carroll as Agnes Brown along with the original TV cast, doing the stuff they weren’t allowed to do on TV! “Australia was feckin’ amazing. Who…
Japanese Film Festival: Princess Jellyfish & 100 Yen Love
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Okay, now for the last two movies that I saw on the Canberra Leg of the Japanese Film Festival. Yes it’s true that I had originally planned to see five movies at the festival but a complimentary ticket from one of the people running the festival because they appreciated that I had seen so many…
Japanese Film Festival: Assassination Classroom
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Director Eichiro Hasumi Staring Ryosuke Yamada, Masaki Suda, Maika Yamamoto, Kanna Hashimoto, Seishiro Kato, Kang Ji-Young Rated Unclassified 15+ Score 4.5/6 Assassination Classroom follows Class 3-E, a ragtag group of students who are tasked with assassinating a seemingly invincible yellow tentacled alien monster. The alien monster also happens to be their teacher and he is…
Japanese Film Festival: Library Wars The Last Mission & The Ninja War of Torakage
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For this particular review I thought I would do something a little different and review two movies in one post. I suppose there are two reasons for doing this because even though they are not sequels I watched them back to back at the Japanese Film Festival and well because I can. Director Shinsuke Sato…
Netflix Still on the Rise
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The number of Australian homes with a Netflix subscription rose again in September to 968,000 (10.5%), up another 113,000 from 855,000 in August, the latest subscription video on demand data from Roy Morgan Research. “Netflix service adoption in households continues to grow at a rate in the double digits month to month. These latest September…
Japanese Film Festival: The Big Bee
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Director Yukihiko Tsutsumi Starring Daisuke Fukushima, Kôhei Furukawa, Ryuji Ichiyama, Naoya Kinoshita, Tadashi Ohsumi, Takeshi Sakamoto, Jun’ichi Sakomoto & Isao Takeda Rated Unclassified 15+ Score 5/6 They have 8 hours to save Japan from nuclear disaster. An unmanned helicopter is captured, and the hijacker threatens to crash it into a nuclear power plant if his…