Movies
Cane Toads conquers the critics
THE first reviews are in for Australia's first ever 3D feature length movie, with critics describing it as "Ava-Toad", and a film set to revolutionise documentaries.
A new frontier
I always wondered what the future would be like. Would we have hover boards and self-drying jackets, like Michael J. Fox did in the '80s hit Back To The Future?
Avatar movie review gives thumbs up
LAST week the world's media packed into a cinema in London for the premiere of one of the most anticipated films in years.
Planet 51 Prize Packs
To celebrate the release of animated family adventure Planet 51, timeOUT and Birch Carroll and Coyle have five fantastic prizes to give away.
Zomedy goes bonkers
Five minutes into Zombieland, our hero/narrator Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg) warns us: "Fasten your seat belts. It's going to be a bumpy ride."
timeOUT Awards 2009
Who had the hottest entertainment ticket in town during 2009? Get voting and help timeOUT decide!
Clean and green
Catch some fantastic environmentally themed films at the Mission Beach Film Festival this weekend, writes Denise Carter
The Boys Are Back prizes
Win advance tickets to the new film from Scott Hicks, responsible for the award-winning Shine.
Dangerous minds
Costas Mandylor says it's more than the shock factor attracting people to hit franchise Saw, writes Jesse Kuch
15 minutes of fame
The acclaimed 15/15 International Film Festival drops into town this Saturday and a local film maker is in on the action
Moving forward
The Australian film industry has taken another step forward, with the very first Aboriginal comedy, writes Jesse Kuch
Fame Prize Packs
To celebrate the release of the brand new movie, Fame, Birch Carroll and Coyle and timeOUT have four fantastic prize packs to give away.
Ready for surrogacy
A question and answer with Radha Mitchell from the brand new sci-fi flick Surrogates
Flying solo
Critics have been hailing Robert Downey Jnr as the "comeback kid" since he rocketed back to the A-list in last year's Iron Man.
Dance Flick giveaway
To celebrate the release of the hilariously funny spoof Dance Flick this week, timeOUT and Birch Carroll and Coyle have some fantastic prizes to give away.
G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra prize packs
timeOUT, Birch Carroll and Coyle have some massive G.I. Joe: The Rise Of Cobra prizes to giveaway
No.1 gangster
Public Enemies is like no gangster movie you've seen, and that's one of its strongest points.
In your face
In Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen played an ignorant, anti-Semitic journalist from Kazakhstan who travelled to the US, to make a faux documentary. In Bruno, he's a flamboyantly gay Austrian "fashionista" who's determined to be an American celebrity.
Nostalgia
Mareeba's Rodeo Drive In has a collection of blockbuster flicks coming up in the next few months
Bruno quickly goes out of style
THE problem with Bruno is Bruno himself. Compared to Borat - and it's impossible to avoid the comparison - there simply isn't enough to the character to build an entire feature-length film around him.
Mammoth adventure
Targeted at the kiddie crowd, this third film in the popular animated franchise, Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs brings more visual cuteness, action and frivolity centred around the importance of friends and family.
Q&A with Isabel Lucas
Former local Isabel Lucas has found herself with a leading role in one of the year's biggest blockbusters, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen. timeOUT finds out just how it all came about...
Stars of the silver screen
Award-winner director Glendyn Ivin is presenting the Queensland premiere of his film Last Ride at the travelling Big Screen Australian Film Festival
Tim Burton's magical and inventive visualisation of Lewis Carroll's classic Alice in Wonderland both reinforces and delights us with its upside-down world, intriguing perspectives and age-old conflict of good versus evil. MORE
Alternative Universe
It's been 35 years since the TV show but, hey, this is about time tripping - Will Ferrell's scientist, Rick Marshall, emerges from a time vortex for a series of sketches set in a pre-historic, dinosaur-infested world in the company of Holly (Anna Friel), a young woman who is his biggest fan.
A night to forget
Astripper, a stolen police car, Taser gun demonstration, illegal drugs, used condom, naked Asian gambler, bawling baby, bemused chicken and a tiger are all part of The Hangover - an outrageously rowdy and funny comedy that is anything but a headache.
Conspiracy theory
If the world could be rendered as simple as Angels and Demons, we'd all be living in a less confusing place.
A star act
The young crew on board for the maiden voyage of the most advanced starship ever created, the USS Enterprise, must find a way to stop the evil Nero (Eric Bana), whose mission of vengeance threatens all of mankind.
Animal instinct
A tragic childhood incident reveals a superhuman capability as a mutant to Jim Logan (Troye Sivan). When he grows up (Hugh Jackman) he and his half-brother Victor Creed - later known as Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber) - become soldiers in conflicts around the world, from the Civil War, WWI and WWII to Vietnam.
Not your average war film
From The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas to Valkyrie and The Reader, there have been a lot of World War II-themed movies in theatres lately, most of them better-than-average but ultimately forgettable.
Something a little different
The Tropical Alternatives film festival kicks off in Cairns tonight with a gala screening of I Just Can't Think Straight and runs through to Saturday May 2 with the screening of one of the year's most talked about queer films, Were the World Mine.
Put stars in mum's eyes this Mother's Day
Make mum the star this Mother's Day by giving her a Birch Carroll & Coyle movie gift card - the perfect gift for every mum this Mother's Day.
Do the math
A harmless teen comedy with more enthusiasm than cinematic merit, Fired Up combines silliness, low-brow humour, romance and cheerleading acrobatics in its formulaic and predictable arsenal.
Back in the hot seat
Hollywood star Vin Diesel is reprising his role as Dominic Toretto in the latest instalment of the Fast & Furious franchise, but this time he's stepping into a new role as well: producer. Here is what he had to say ahead of the film's release today.
High-speed ride
In the latest installment of the Fast & Furious franchise, a crime brings fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) back to L.A. and reignites his feud with FBI agent Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker).
The way of the warrior
In Dragonball: Evolution, The young warrior Goku (Justin Chatwin) sets out on a quest, racing against time and the vengeful King Piccolo (James Marsters), to collect a set of seven magical orbs that will grant their wielder unlimited power.
Meet the odd couple
In Mary And Max, an unlikely pen-pal friendship develops between Mary Dinkle (voices of Bethany Whitmore and Toni Collette), a chubby, lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horovitz (Philip Seymour Hoffman), a 44-year-old, severely obese, Jewish man with Asperger's syndrome, living in the chaos of New York.
A classic family tale
Las Vegas cab driver Jack Bruno (Dwayne Johnson aka The Rock) has been on the wrong side of the law and he is keen to stay straight.
Coming of age
IN 1989, Mike O'Donnell (Zac Efron) is the star on the high school basketball court with a promising future around the corner. He decides to throw it all in when his girlfriend Scarlet (Allison Miller) tells him she is expecting a baby.
Bringing mosters to life
Sean Muir catches up with Conrad Vernon, co-director of the latest DreamWorks animated hit, Monsters vs Aliens
Monsters prize packs
To celebrate the release of Monsters Vs Aliens this week, we have a swag of prizes to give away courtesy of Paramount Pictures and Birch Carroll and Coyle.
Uninvited guest
What a nice surprise! A mind-bending, intelligent PG film (a remake of an Asian movie) thriller that's well worth seeing.
Life on the margins
Lebanese Australian John Morkos (George Basha) is released from prison intent on a new life, but he finds his younger brother, Charlie (Firass Dirani), being lured by the local underworld, and keeping bad company at high school.
Double trouble
CIA officer Claire Stenwick (Julia Roberts) and MI6 agent Ray Koval (Clive Owen) have quit their jobs in intelligence for a chance to cash in on the profitable rivalry between two multinational corporations.
