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Blind ambition pays off for Zimbabwean wine tasters
What do you get when four former Zimbabwean refugees conquer the odds and become some of South Africa’s top sommeliers? The world’s first ever Zimbabwean wine tasting team is the answer, competing…
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Joaquin Phoenix excels in new movie C’mon C’mon
Writer and director Mike Mills new drama C’mon C’mon is a slow burn. The first half hour is a slow introduction to the complex world of Viv (Gaby Hoffman) and her sometimes…
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Nitram – a disturbing account of the life of Australia’s worst mass murderer
Luna Cinemas upcoming movie ‘Nitram’ (the name ‘Martin’ spelled backwards), is a graphic and disquieting account of the life of mass murderer Martin Bryant, whose deadly rampage at a Tasmanian tourist site…
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New psychological romance holds audience right to the end
A new Hungarian film coming to Luna Cinemas has the melancholy title of Preparations to Be Together for An Unknown Period of Time. The movie, however, is far from it. Starring the…
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Pig shines a beacon on the triumph of good over evil
The plot of Nicolas Cage’s new movie Pig contains many twists and turns. Living up in the north-west Pacific mountains, scraping a living finding truffles with his highly trained truffle pig, is…
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The Bowraville Murders – a sad indictment of past injustices
When three Aboriginal kids disappear from the small country town of Bowraville in New South Wales in 1990/91, the police do little about it. This is despite the three disappearances all happening…
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New musical Annette is a cinematic enigma
Baffling, bizarre and beguiling. These three adjectives barely do justice to an indescribable film: the new musical Annette, coming soon to Luna Cinemas. A musical collaboration between French cult film director Leos…
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New documentary highlights dogs’ strength, dignity and unconditional love
We Don’t Deserve Dogs is a moving and thought-provoking documentary about the therapeutic and restorative power of dogs. A dog’s unique ability to heal and restore both themselves and their owners, is…
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‘Sparks’ fly in monumental rock music documentary
Famously, Winston Churchill defined Russia as: “A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma”. The same could almost be said about the legendary US rock band Sparks, who have defied the…
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Surreal drama ‘Death of a Ladies’ Man’ showcases Leonard Cohen
Quirky and even trippy at times, Canadian director Matthew Bissonette’s new movie: Death of a Ladies’ Man, stars famed Irish actor Gabriel Byrne as worn but still lusty, English literature professor Samuel…
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