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Concrete Playground Meets Danny Boyle and the Cast of Trance

What film did you expect Danny Boyle to make next? Odds are it wasn't Trance, a hypno-heist thriller.

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Friendly Fire Becomes More Literal as Thumbs Replace Guns

Our favourite bullet-firing heroes and villains have laid down their arms.

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Carrie Fisher Is Returning to Star Wars, According to Carrie Fisher

Princess Leia is is bringing back those famous bagel buns and reprising her role.

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How Reasonable Things Still Get Banned by the Australian Classification Board

I Want Your Love is in the spotlight after James Franco's YouTube rant, but it's banning is just one of many 'silly' decisions made by Australian censors over the years.

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A Lego Hogwarts Exists That Is Almost Big Enough to Enter

This Hogwarts castle made out of 400,000 Lego blocks is possibly more stupefying than the real Hogwarts.

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Win Tickets to See I Give It a Year

A rom com that turns its gaze to what happens after the wedding.

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IMDB’s Top 250 Films in 2 1/2 Minutes

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Win Tickets To Two Little Boys

Two Little Boys follows the hilarious bond between two best mates as they face a series of unfortunate incidents.

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Concrete Playground meets Dead Europe director Tony Krawitz

The filmmaker seeks out the ghosts of Europe with his new Christos Tsiolkas adaptation.

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Win Tickets to You Instead

Directed by David Mackenzie, You Instead is a romantic comedy that is set at one of Scotland's biggest music festivals.

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Win Tickets to Hysteria

This film is a joyful and light-hearted take on the birth of sex toy, likely to put a knowing smile on a few faces in the audience.

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Win Tickets to Where Do We Go Now?

Concrete Playground has ten double passes to give away for Nadine Labaki's modern fable.

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Win Tickets to Marley

Marley reinforces the cultural significance of this Jamaican hero, who still resonates in music lovers' hearts all over the world almost 30 years after his death.

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Win Tickets to Take This Waltz

It's a heartwarming and complex production, which is a must-see for romantics and cynics alike.

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This Week in Film Trailers

As the weather gets colder it makes more sense to stay indoors and watch movies than to brave the icy winds.

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A History of Love on Film (and What it Says About Us)

From gay couples to unwed couples and human-monster romance, we look at those films that have changed how we see that crazy little thing called love.

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This American Life comes to Australian cinemas

With a weekly listenership of 1.7 million and a strong following since 1995, This American Life is due to make its debut in Australian cinemas.

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Win Tickets to see Bel Ami

We have five double passes to see Bel Ami, the adaptation of the famously salacious 19th century novel.

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Win Season One of Call Me Fitz on DVD

After years of womanising and substance abusing, Fitz is on the hunt for his long-lost conscience.

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