There's a film with Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, and Richard Roxburgh that US audiences haven't had a chance to see yet. The Turning is an Australian anthology film that adapts a set of short stories by Tim Winton, with more than a dozen directors, including Mia Wasikowska and Anthony Lucas (The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello), David Wenham (300: Rise of…
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Omnibus films are tricky beasts. Their very structure tends to make them wildly uneven, particularly if the director and stars change between each segment. But even if the occasional dud is all but unavoidable, a couple of really great pieces can make the whole thing worth watching. The Turning consists of seventeen interconnected shorts, each…
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I didn't know anything about the film Ice before today -- it is an adaptation of James Follett's environmental apocalypse thriller. Think The Day After Tomorrow, without all the Roland Emmerich bombast. There's a trailer for Ice after the break, during which you might ask, "well, actually, could we have a little more bombast?" The…
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If you've caught yourself thinking that Werner Herzog's 3D doc Caves of Forgotten Dreams might be a lot better paired with another 3D film about caves, you're in luck. James Cameron has acted as exec producer on a film called Sanctum, in which a group of explorers and daredevils ventures into the deepest cave on…
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