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Hollywood loves to produce a ‘buddy-cop’ film and follow a predictable and finely-tuned method for how it should play out.

The shadow Christopher Nolan’s Batman movies have cast over the comic book superhero blockbuckster is so large, so bleak, and indicative of a style so doggedly averse to embracing any manner of camp or kitsch that a gritty sub-genre has emerged spawning marquee productions that are now, thanks to director Zack Snyder (Watchmen, Sucker Punch) and screenwriter David S.

There’s a lack of fictional women in top jobs across film and television, especially given the fact less than 30% of the speaking parts in Hollywood blockbusters are given to women.

Last year director Joss Whedon shredded the global box office with his big, loud, sprawling take on The Avengers, a blockbuster superhero mash-up that earned the Buffy brain trust no small amount of industry cred.

One of the world’s longest-running film fests, The Sydney Film Festival, is now underway, amd cinephiles in Australia are once again spoiled for choice.

Following the success of Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo comes Paper Giants: Magazine Wars, a story spanning a decade from the mid-’80s.

There is one — and, sadly, only one — good scene in the new, gaudy, mega budget adaptation of F.

The iGeneration’s Star Trek crew are back on the USS enterprise, turning dials, gawking at screens, swiveling in chairs and squinting through a layer of lens flares in director J.

Could scenes from one of the biggest movie releases of the year and one of the most expensive literary adaptations of all time have been directed via Skype? Cinetology understands blockbuster filmmaker Baz Luhrmann last year called the shots from the (cyber) director’s chair for his highly anticipated adaptation of The Great Gatsby some 16,000 kilometers from where the action was taking place.

It’d be nice to think a film called This is 40 would offer some telling insights about a couple staring down the barrel of middle-age, but Judd Apatow’s attempt brings no hint of emotional maturity — or humour.

Mark O’Brien’s on a mission to finally lose his virginity in his late 30’s.

Nearly three decades after it first played to Melbourne audiences, Top Girls is back on the Melbourne Theatre Company stage.