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    National Geographic Adventure Filmmaker Bryan Smith is More Afraid Than You Think

    The man who started filmmaking with a camcorder from Walmart.

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    20,000 Days on Earth: Truth, Fiction and Never Asking Nick Cave to Do Things Twice

    How much of the impossible doco-fiction epic was scripted? The answer may surprise you.

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    Five Life Lessons We Can Learn from Dance Movies

    You learn more than just the running man when you watch All The Dance Movies.

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    Win Tickets to See The Little Death

    A Love Actually for sex, kink and fetishes.

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    Five Things to Learn at the Big Screen Symposium

    From producing films that star Jennifer Lawrence to being funny.

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    Win Tickets to the Lavazza Italian Film Festival 2014

    Fall in love with movies Italian style, including a breathtaking restoration of one of the country's all-time classics.

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    Five Things We Learnt at Oz Comic Con

    William Shatner believes in UFOs and Khal Drogo goes for Port Power. Go figure.

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    Win Tickets to See The Infinite Man

    The intricacies of time travel are nothing compared to the mysteries of the heart.

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    Win Chef on DVD Plus a Kitchenful of Bodum Appliances

    Jon Favreau makes a return to the personal and palatable in Chef. And now you can too.

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    Win Tickets and the Soundtrack to Wish I Was Here

    Wish I Was Here is a sincere and funny follow up to Zach Braff's hugely popular directorial debut The Garden State. Concrete Playground has five double passes and digital soundtracks from the film to giveaway.

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    Win Tickets to See What We Do in the Shadows

    Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement's mockumentary about the undead keeps the genre alive and well.

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    Win Tickets to See Night Moves

    Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard get radical.

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    Director Florian Habicht on Putting Pulp to Film, with a Little Help from Sheffield

    It took a whole town to tell the story of Pulp, Jarvis Cocker, life, death and supermarkets.

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    The Five Best Things to See at the Sydney Underground Film Festival 2014

    Starting with a book deemed so disgusting that letters pleaded for it never to be made into a movie.

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    Remembering The Astor Theatre: Eight Film Buffs Share Their Stories

    If this really is the end for the iconic venue, consider this our eulogy.

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    A Studio Ghibli Film Showcase Is Coming to Australia

    Take a look inside the kingdom of dreams and madness.

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    The ABC Launches Its First iview-Only Series Next Month

    Who would have thought it'd be about a post-apocalyptic panda?

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    Win Tickets to See Boyhood

    Richard Linklater has been filming the same movie for the last 12 years, and you have to watch it.

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    The Astor Theatre Has Announced its Closure For 2015

    Time to get weirdly sentimental with a screening of Pulp Fiction or Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

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    The Last Days of Legendary Video Store Dr What

    Make a farewell visit to this old-school Sydney institution.

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    The Best, Worst and Weirdest of the Melbourne International Film Festival

    If there's justice in the world, the best movies will be in cinemas soon.

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    Concrete Playground meets the Directors behind Nick Cave’s 20,000 Days on Earth

    The documentary set in an imaginary 24-hour period of Nick Cave's life.

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    Win Tickets to See Predestination

    Not just another sci-fi thriller.

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    Ruin Directors Amiel Courtin-Wilson and Michael Cody on Their Free-form Filmmaking

    The Australian directors landed in Cambodia with no script, no finance and no crew. And they still left with a film.

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    You’ll Soon Be Able to Guzzle Precious Hobbit-Themed Beer

    The Smaug Stout is infused with chillies. Nice.

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    Win Tickets to See 20,000 Days on Earth

    The intoxicating sort-of documentary on the life of Nick Cave.

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    Tom Ballard’s New Show Gives Your Guilty TV Pleasures a Reality Check

    The former Triple J presenter is tearing down the walls of the Block and looking at the ingredients that go into Masterchef.

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    Win Tickets to See Palo Alto

    Instagram-age Renaissance man James Franco's thoughts on coming of age.

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    Has Studio Ghibli Made Its Last Movie?

    The House of Totoro is taking a hiatus.

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    Cliff Curtis on Playing a Man with Bi-Polar Disorder

    The Hollywood actor and lead role in New Zealand chess drama The Dark Horse.

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    Cinema Returns to New Farm with Retro Flair

    The iconic Brisbane venue formerly known as the Village Twin is finally reopening its doors

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    Win Tickets to See The Keeper of Lost Causes

    All the standard Scandinavian crime thrills come together in the newest addition to the ever-popular genre.

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