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The Australia-wide Human Rights Arts and Film Festival is the only cultural event devoted exclusively to exploring humanitarian issues through creative media. The not-for-profit event will be showing at the Chauvel Cinema in from May 29 to June 1, and Concrete Playground has five double passes to give away for...

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With a weekly listenership of 1.7 million and a strong following since 1995, the popular weekly hour-long radio program This American Life is due to make its debut in Australian cinemas. Filmed on a stage in New York City, This American Life — Live! is a packed show featuring stories...

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Bel Ami is the adaptation of a nineteenth century French novel by Guy de Maupassant. And before you get all judgey about nineteenth century novels, you should keep in mind that while the Victorians were drinking tea and worrying about exposing their ankles, the French were all about sex, drugs,...

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The annual Sydney Film Festival carves a cinema-going strip out of the city and makes us excited about seeing more than just the latest blockbusters. Under new festival director Nashen Moodley, the event looks bigger than ever, with an exciting array of boundary-pushing competition contenders, illuminating documentaries, a strand focusing...

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Fitz (Jason Priestly), a devilishly handsome low-life of a used car salesman, is missing something. After years of womanising and substance abusing, he's on the hunt for his long-lost conscience. Fitz just didn't think he'd find him sitting at the office desk opposite his.Never much concerned with ending his sleazy...

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Why is it the most controversial topics that make us laugh the hardest?Perhaps it’s catharsis. Perhaps it’s because we dare not make the jokes ourselves. In either case, Sacha Baron Cohen’s latest film The Dictator requires no introduction. But let’s just say, Baron Cohen’s newest creation - supreme leader General...

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Boaz Yakin's 'Safe' follows the two-headed mission of former special forces operative Luke Wright (Jason Stratham) as he sets out to outwit Chinese Triads and the Russian Mafia. 12-year old Mei (Catherine Chan) is Wright's unlikely sidekick: a girl who holds potentially deadly knowledge.Mei has been gifted with mathematical genius,...

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World Movies will bring Secret Cinema to Sydney next month, transforming a mystery downtown building into a lavish cinema just for the night. The film to be screened, similarly, will be revealed on the night of the event. The only disclosed details on the film describe it as award-winning and...

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So the blissful four-day weekend recently sparkling ahead of us has gone, and we sit at our desks with few keepsakes of the experience besides a dramatic sugar crash. My sympathies, friends. It's a particular downer of a week here at Concrete Playground, where we're saying goodbye to long-serving editor-in-chief...

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The 11th annual Festival of German Films will screen 37 films at the Chauvel and Palace Norton Street, highlighting the breadth and diversity of contemporary German filmmaking.With a long cinematic history spanning as far back as the Weimar silent film era to Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Wim Wenders in the 1970s...

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When Angélique (Isabelle Carré) is hired as a chocolatier at Jean-René's (Benoît Poelvoorde) small chocolate shop, neither one has more than cocoa and sugar on their minds. Their passion for chocolate making, however, soon inspires a fledgling romance. The only thing standing in their way is sheer shyness. Despite developing affections, both...

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