Search Results: Toni Collette
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 06 June 2018
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The pressure starts to get to Annie when she begins to suspect her mother is haunting her. This exacerbates pre-existing tensions; her husband is caring in a mildly condescending way, but is more concerned with the wellbeing of their children. Is the haunting real, then, or just a symptom of Annie's reluctance to let go?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 02 April 2009
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Mary is a socially awkward adolescent, growing up in 1970s
suburban Melbourne. Her penpal Max
is a lonely New Yorker, a chronic overeater with Asperger's. Adam Elliot's films are not just about difference. They are about justice.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 06 March 2008
The Black Balloon's early '90s suburban locale is a tangible and familiar environment,
where intolerance and ignorance brood beneath the surface. Lead actor Rhys Wakefield embodies everything that it is to be a teenager on the brink
of adulthood.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 27 June 2007
Multi-story films have a special power. They examine the lives of seemingly unrelated people whose fates become potently, albeit incidentally, connected. But sometimes a set of strong short films does not add up to a powerful feature.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Sebastien de Robillard
- 30 October 2006
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Although the characters in Little Miss Sunshine are extreme in many ways, it is this very quality that allows us to most relate to them. They are a very sympathetic group, and the message of the film is that few families are truly "normal".
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brett Evans, Juliette Hughes, Siobhan Jackson
- 15 June 2006
Reviews of the films Japanese Story; Gettin’ Square; 28 Days Later and Matchstick Men.
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ENVIRONMENT
Mark Byrne looks at the particular characteristics that make an Australian 'hero', and asks what it is about the interior of this country that moulds the interior of our collective suconscious in such a unique way.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gil Maclean, Allan James Thomas, Juliette Hughes
- 11 May 2006
Reviews of the films Shaolin Soccer, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Connie and Carla
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