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Like Happy Feet meets Nemo, with a message of identity and hope (opens the original)
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I'm all for small film companies taking on the increasing might of the big Hollywood studios, and while the horror filmmakers are really doing that well lately, it's nice to see a non-Disney film on cinema screens these school holidays. There's equal parts education and entertainment in The Last Whale Singer, a film about a young whale finding his place in the underwater world, from a German company and voiced with Canadian actors thanks to the film's Canadian co-production partner. The Last Wha
Practical Magic 2 oozes charm but fails to conjure original's magic (opens the original)
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There was something genuinely magic about the 1998 film Practical Magic, with Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock as sisters who grew up under the watch of eccentric aunts Dianne Wiest and Stockard Channing. Kidman and Bullock were young witches, sewing their wild oats but discovering that a family curse means any man they love is doomed to die. While Kidman would later play Samantha in the 2005 Bewitched movie, cornering the market on iconic big-screen witches for a while there, Practical Magic be
Is this purgatory? A Gen Z road trip that asks the big questions (opens the original)
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I thought on reading this film's title that it must be a sequel to the 2014 teen horror It Follows, where a death-curse is passed between sexual partners, but actually American filmmaker Alexander Ullom's debut feature is a contemplative and existential road movie with horror elements. This is the year of the breakout micro budget hit, with films like Obsession and Backrooms performing box office miracles and earning back their budgets 100 times over. It Ends might not be the same calibre but it
Behind the diva: Tina Arena doco goes inside 50 years of grit and glamour (opens the original)
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Something must have told the universe the Australian public was hungry for biopics of our Aussie pop divas, because we drank up the episodes of Netflix's Kylie Minogue multi-part series in May, and hopefully the same attention gets lavished on this stand-alone film about Tina Arena, hitting cinemas this week. If these things were judged by singing ability alone, it would be Tina Arena with the Netflix multi-part series, but the fact that it isn't is exactly what this biographical doco unpacks. A
Like a reiki session at a fancy spa, this movie made me feel nothing (opens the original)
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Sometimes for financial reasons or big fat tax breaks or even global pandemics, Australia becomes a very attractive filming location for international productions and that's why the Gold Coast's Sheraton Grand Mirage Resort stands in as a snooty deluxe spa on the beaches outside Los Angeles in this gals-gone-wild comedy. The filmmakers and the film's marketing team obviously want to attract the same audience, and audience numbers, of the 2017 comedy Girls Trip - it feels like the film is singing
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