My Favourite Things When I was little I was the girl in a white dress with a blue satin sash- at ballet school anyway. I learnt the words to the song and I made it my goal to find out what my favourite things were, so that when I felt bad I could cling…
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Hollywood doesn’t anecdote the ‘happily ever after’ of modern love anymore without doctoring it with clichés, 30 second orgasms and a sense of overall perfection. This is what Sarah Polley tried to steer away from when she wrote and directed Take This Waltz. Take This Waltz is not a feel good comedy. It is a rich…
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British filmmaker Rupert Sanders makes his feature film debut with the Hollywood epic, Snow White and the Huntsman starring Charlize Theron, Kristen Stewart (who has recently been named Forbes Magazine’s highest paid actress) and Australia’s Chris Hemsworth. Courtney Dawson chats to Sanders about his experiences in the industry, what he based the casting process on, his…
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The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival aims to use art to transcend cultural, ethnic and linguistic barriers, with the goal of inspiring and educating the Australian public, and connecting them with human rights organisations. The National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra screened three films from the festival’s touring program, and one of these films was Our…
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There are many things in life that scare us, and for some people that list extends to just about everything. Romantics Anonymous tells the story of Angélique (Isabelle Carré) and Jean-René (Benoît Poelvoorde), two such people who are terrified of daily life, and especially the prospect of falling in love. Angelique is a member of ‘Émotifs Anonymes’…
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Beginning where most romantic comedies end, the new film from director Nicholas Stoller, producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) and Rodney Rothman (Get Him to the Greek) looks at what happens when an engaged couple keep getting ‘tripped up’ on the long walk down the aisle! Thanks to Universal Pictures, lipmag has some double…
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Even More Defence Force Sexism The Australian Defence Force has seemed to appear in this column more weeks than not. Yet another disappointing example of the sexism rife in the Defence Force was brought to light this week. In this case, the ABC has been given access to a private facebook group of over 1000 former and serving members…
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The much anticipated My Week With Marilyn is a window into the world of a timeless film idol, told through the eyes of young movie-making hopeful Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne). The film is based on the actual diaries written by Clark during his time with Marilyn while making The Prince and the Showgirl in London….
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The race to become the Republican Presidential nominee is heating up in America with only four candidates left to battle it out in the remaining primaries. But who exactly are the contenders? Not much is known about these men in Australia and being a politics nerd myself, I think it is only right that I…
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fashion models weigh 23 per cent less than the average woman According to the January issue of PLUS Model magazine, the average fashion model twenty years ago weighed 8 per cent less than the average woman; today, she weighs 23 per cent less. And most runway models nowadays meet the Body Mass Index criteria for…
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