Giveaway: ‘The Sorcerer and the White Snake’ on Blu-Ray (Closed)

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Justin

Update: This giveaway has closed, thanks to everyone who wrote in!
Congratulations to Judith in Geelong, Andrew in Melbourne and Michael in Adelaide: your discs are in the mail.

Today from our friends at Icon, who did such an impressive job releasing Asian films in Australia last year, I have three blu-ray discs to give away of Ching Siu Tung’s 2011 film with Jet Li, The Sorcerer and the White Snake.… (read more)

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Big films screening at the KCO for March (Sydney)

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Justin

Just a quick note for readers in Sydney — as part of their Cinema on the Park series, the Korean Cultural Office have dubbed this month’s programme ‘X-treme Korea’, and they’re showing a bunch of great stuff. Several of these screened at festivals last year, so if you missed out, now’s your chance to catch one for free!

I’m too late for March 1st’s film, which was The Man From Nowhere, but coming up on Thursday nights from tomorrow … (read more)

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The Raid (2011)

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Posted on March 2, 2012 by Justin

The Raid opens nationwide on the 22nd of March. Check Madman’s site for more details.

Director Gareth Evans and newly-minted action star Iko Uwais have followed up their 2009 martial arts flick Merantau with this hard-edged action film, and Madman have been good enough to bring it to cinemas nationwide! The last big action movie I remember them doing a cinema release for in Australia was Ong Bak, a logical point of comparison for this one — both come … (read more)

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Bleach on the Gold Coast

Posted on February 28, 2012 by Deni

Okay, so those of you well familiar with our sunny GC might think this post’s title to be an exercise in stating the obvious, but that’s not the kind of bleach I mean. I do of course mean Bleach, the long running anime TV series based on Kubo Tite’s manga, and more specifically I mean the 4th and most recent movie, Hell Verse.

What does it have to do with the Gold Coast, you might ask? Well, just … (read more)

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Let The Bullets Fly (2010)

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Posted on February 26, 2012 by John Snadden

This 2010 China-Hong Kong co-production finally makes it to Australia on DVD, which is surprising considering it was China’s highest grossing film for that year, a title it still holds despite tough opposition from the recent Christmas releases of Zhang Yimou’s wartime drama The Flowers of War and Tsui Hark’s 3D fest Flying Swords of Dragon Gate.

Let The Bullets Fly’s distribution history outside China was also worrying: it couldn’t find a distributor in Australia on its release … (read more)

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Moss (2010)

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Posted on February 23, 2012 by Deni

From the outset, Moss, by director Kang Woo-Suk (Public Enemy, Silmido), wasn’t quite what I expected. I expected long, and yes, it was that, clocking in at 2 hours and 43 minutes from opening to closing credits. Not that I was wishing it was over half way through, of course, but a run time of 163 minutes is something that you want to know about before you buy a ticket, generally speaking.

I expected a suspense … (read more)

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Extremely last minute Drawn to Screen giveaway for Brisneylanders!

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Deni

Update: The double passes have been claimed. Thanks for the quick responses! Our winners will be notified shortly.

The answer to our question was of course Moss, which was based on a popular webcomic that began in 2007. 

Been chatting with the lovely people over at GoMA’s Australian Cinémathèque in Brisbane today, who have offered us a couple of double passes to one of the films remaining in their Drawn to Screen: Graphic Novels, Comics and Serials programme.

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Punch (2011)

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Posted on February 21, 2012 by Elizabeth Kerr
A high school kid with a temper grows up fast when he’s forced to deal with his handicapped uncle and father and runaway foreign mother. With help from a tough-love spouting teacher he channels his rage into kickboxing and finally into a more assured sense of self.
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