About Author: Alice Tynan

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Alice Tynan is a committed cinephile, though there was a time she feared she might not be critical enough to review films. What a difference a festival makes! While future screenplay ideas percolate, Alice keeps busy contributing to publications including: Rotten Tomatoes, The Big Issue, TheVine, Street Press Australia, Concrete Playground, The Brag, Filmink and has recorded with the film podcast Worse Addictions. And of course every so often she loves to Trespass... Read more of her work at www.alicetynan.com

Posts by Alice Tynan

  • Blood may be thicker than water, but it’s also stickier. The producers of the quirky Little Miss Sunshine are back with more… sunshine. Sunshine Cleaning sees them going from beauty pageants to crime scene cleaning: though perhaps it’s not such a huge departure seeing as...

    Review: Sunshine Cleaning

    Posted on June 8, 2009 | No Comments
    Blood may be thicker than water, but it’s also stickier. The producers of the quirky Little Miss Sunshine are back with more… sunshine. Sunshine Cleaning sees them going from beauty pageants to crime scene cleaning: though perhaps it’s not such a huge departure seeing as...

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  • Judi Dench, Sophia Loren, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson and Stacy (Fergie) Ferguson. That may only make seven, but the film’s called Nine. But add Daniel Day-Lewis and a story inspired by Fellini’s 8½ and you’ve got an absolutely dazzling cinematic concoction....

    Trailer Teaser: Nine

    Posted on June 2, 2009 | No Comments
    Judi Dench, Sophia Loren, Marion Cotillard, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson and Stacy (Fergie) Ferguson. That may only make seven, but the film’s called Nine. But add Daniel Day-Lewis and a story inspired by Fellini’s 8½ and you’ve got an absolutely dazzling cinematic concoction....

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  • Our generation may still have our grandparents with us. But unfortunately ‘still with us,’ all too often means relegated to a nursing home, only to be fished out for birthdays and Christmases. It’s a none to happy reality and one brought to light in John...

    Review: Is Anybody There?

    Posted on May 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Our generation may still have our grandparents with us. But unfortunately ‘still with us,’ all too often means relegated to a nursing home, only to be fished out for birthdays and Christmases. It’s a none to happy reality and one brought to light in John...

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  • A room filled with sugared up children isn’t the most conducive environment for watching a film. Then again, when the film is Night at the Museum 2, you realise you’re sitting with the target audience: kids and their weary parents hoping for at least 90...

    Review: Night at the Museum 2

    Posted on May 25, 2009 | 3 Comments
    A room filled with sugared up children isn’t the most conducive environment for watching a film. Then again, when the film is Night at the Museum 2, you realise you’re sitting with the target audience: kids and their weary parents hoping for at least 90...

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  • Sticking with fathers and sons on the run, this week we get the first look at the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic world in The Road. From all accounts, McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel is as bleak as it is beloved, even ending up on...

    Trailer Teaser: The Road

    Posted on May 19, 2009 | No Comments
    Sticking with fathers and sons on the run, this week we get the first look at the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic world in The Road. From all accounts, McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel is as bleak as it is beloved, even ending up on...

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  • “Langdon. Robert, Langdon.” Somehow it just doesn’t have the same ring to it. And yet Dan Brown’s academic action hero tries so very hard to be the thinking man’s James Bond. So have your dictionaries at the ready, because Langdon is back in Angels &...

    Review: Angels & Demons

    Posted on May 13, 2009 | No Comments
    “Langdon. Robert, Langdon.” Somehow it just doesn’t have the same ring to it. And yet Dan Brown’s academic action hero tries so very hard to be the thinking man’s James Bond. So have your dictionaries at the ready, because Langdon is back in Angels &...

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  • You may be unable to watch Hugo Weaving without muttering “Hello, Mr. Anderson,” or searching for his elf ears. That’s ok, we’ve all been there, including Last Ride director Glendyn Ivin who repeatedly refers to “Agent Smith” in his production diary/blog. If anything, Weaving’s ‘infamy’...

    Trailer Teaser: Last Ride

    Posted on May 13, 2009 | No Comments
    You may be unable to watch Hugo Weaving without muttering “Hello, Mr. Anderson,” or searching for his elf ears. That’s ok, we’ve all been there, including Last Ride director Glendyn Ivin who repeatedly refers to “Agent Smith” in his production diary/blog. If anything, Weaving’s ‘infamy’...

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  • “Stop seeing them as they never were.” - Brigitte Mohnhaupt The Baader Meinhof Complex is a compelling study of politics, media and madness. It’s the late 1960s, and while love might be in the air, the atmosphere in West Germany is tense. The Shah of...

    Film Review: The Baader Meinhof Complex

    Posted on May 4, 2009 | No Comments
    “Stop seeing them as they never were.” - Brigitte Mohnhaupt The Baader Meinhof Complex is a compelling study of politics, media and madness. It’s the late 1960s, and while love might be in the air, the atmosphere in West Germany is tense. The Shah of...

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  • Are you tough or are you corny? The crème-de-la-crème of the Mexican film industry has tackled this curious question in the bittersweet comedy Rudo y Cursi. The film reunites Y tu mamá también stars (and all around dreamboats) Gael García Berna and Diego Luna, this...

    Trailer Teaser: Rudo y Cursi

    Posted on May 1, 2009 | No Comments
    Are you tough or are you corny? The crème-de-la-crème of the Mexican film industry has tackled this curious question in the bittersweet comedy Rudo y Cursi. The film reunites Y tu mamá también stars (and all around dreamboats) Gael García Berna and Diego Luna, this...

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  • Origin stories are tricky creatures. Particularly when they serve as a prequel to an already successful series. Sure, the fan base is guaranteed, with an eagerness bordering on obsessiveness that must bring film execs a bit of comfort in these bleak financial times. And yet...

    Review: X-Men Origins – Wolverine

    Posted on April 28, 2009 | 4 Comments
    Origin stories are tricky creatures. Particularly when they serve as a prequel to an already successful series. Sure, the fan base is guaranteed, with an eagerness bordering on obsessiveness that must bring film execs a bit of comfort in these bleak financial times. And yet...

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  •   Gomorrah: a story of such dangerous and gruesome reality that its writer now lives under police protection. With such an intimidating canon of gangster films – The Godfather Trilogy (ok maybe not Part 3), Goodfellas and Scarface, to name the big guns – it’s...

    Trailer Teaser: Gomorrah

    Posted on April 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
      Gomorrah: a story of such dangerous and gruesome reality that its writer now lives under police protection. With such an intimidating canon of gangster films – The Godfather Trilogy (ok maybe not Part 3), Goodfellas and Scarface, to name the big guns – it’s...

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  • “I don’t know why I make it so complicated.” “It’s what you do.” These lines from writer Charlie Kaufman’s much anticipated directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York, seem to speak as much to the man as to his movie. If your brain boggled through Kaufman’s Adaptation,...

    Trailer Teaser: Synecdoche, New York

    Posted on April 14, 2009 | No Comments
    “I don’t know why I make it so complicated.” “It’s what you do.” These lines from writer Charlie Kaufman’s much anticipated directorial debut, Synecdoche, New York, seem to speak as much to the man as to his movie. If your brain boggled through Kaufman’s Adaptation,...

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