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Articles by Luke Buckmaster

Daily Proposition: gotta hand it to Mel’s Beaver

The Beaver is a quietly unsettling inspirational story.

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Daily Proposition: take a meandering cinematic Trip

British funnymen Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon coast between hotels, restaurants and quaint countryside locations in director Michael Winterbottom’s Sideways-esque love letter to good food, wine and conversation.

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Daily Proposition: make Harry disappear forever

After seven films, 11 years, four directors and a cumulative running time that lasts longer than a Jewish wedding, the story of the world’s most famous magic-channelling do-gooder finally comes to a close in a fireball of cheese and spectacle in The Deathly Hallows: Part Two.

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Daily Proposition: grumpy old men Get Low

The idea of watching Robert Duvall hiss and sputter as a bitter old hermit and Bill Murray attempt to appease him as a smarmy money-hungry undertaker is like catnip for any semi-cultured cinephile, more than enough reason to hand over your hard earned and settle in with the company of two grizzled stalwarts who are […]

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Daily Proposition: download a great new Aussie film (legally)

Director Carlo Ledesma’s subterranean spook-fest The Tunnel is an underground film in a literal sense — it is largely based in dilapidated tunnels and bunkers below metropolitan Sydney — and an above the ground film in a sense the local industry has never seen before.

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Daily Proposition: see the scariest Aussie flick ever made

Snowtown isn’t just a brilliant piece of blood-curdling cinema, says Luke Buckmaster, or just one of the best local features of this or any year. It’s the most frightening Aussie flick ever made.

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See a near-classic sci-fi flick

If Alfred Hitchcock were alive and directed a cross between The Matrix, Groundhog Day and Murder on the Orient Express it would resemble something along the lines of Source Code, says Luke Buckmaster.

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Fairfax film critic Schembri and the mystery of the Twitter time machine

Yesterday Fairfax film critic Jim Schembri engaged in a bizarre online performance piece in which Luke Buckmaster begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting was unwittingly cast as one of the key players. It all began with a scary movie …

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Daily Proposition: see Barney’s bitter-sweet biopic

The sad, sweet, enormously moving biopic of TV producer Barney Panofsky, Barney’s Version, features front and centre a career-best performance from Paul Giamatti.

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Enjoy a Limitless movie experience

You’ll never guess where this rollicking druggy sci-fi drama will go, and these days unpredictable stories from Hollywood are rare finds, the cinematic four leaf clover.

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Daily Proposition: see a tense creature feature

The Reef is a tense creature feature from Andrew Traucki.

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Watch a (good) awful Farrelly flick

Ah, Bobby and Peter Farrelly. Those giants of gross out. Those titans of the toilet bowl. Those pharaohs of the fart joke. Nothing’s changed in Hall Pass. Just as well, says Luke Buckmaster.

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The Golden Choc-Tops: the wrong side of the tracks, and cinematic wank-fests

Presenting the fifth and final day of Crikey’s annual film awards, The Golden Choc-Tops. Today the Best Wrong Side of the Tracks Story and the Most Sickly Pseudo Intellectual Cinematic Wank Fest.

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The Golden Choc-Tops: smooth screen charisma, and the best unreleased film

Presenting day four in The Golden Choc-Tops, Crikey’s annual film awards. Today The Best Unreleased Film of 2010 and The George Clooney Award for Silky Smooth Screen Charisma.

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The Golden Choc-Tops: deplorable characters, and the best Aussie flick of 2010

Day three of the Golden Choc-Tops, with awards today for the Best Australian Film of 2010 and the Malcolm Tucker Award for Most Deplorable On Screen Personality. And the winners are…

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The Golden Choc-Tops: sweaty rides to nowhere, and the best sequel of 2010

Day two of the Golden Choc-Tops, with awards today for The Most Intense Sweat-Drenched Ride to Nowhere (otherwise known as the Best Confined Space Thriller) and The Best Sequel of 2010. Who will win?

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The Golden Choc-Tops: drugs and debauchery, and the most under-rated film of 2010

Today we present the first two gongs in Crikey’s inaugural Golden Choc-Top awards: The Charlie Sheen Award for Most Spectacular Cinematic Display of Drugs and Debauchery and The Most Under-Rated Film of 2010.

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Reactions to Obama’s rousing speech in Tucson

Crikey media wrap:: At an emotionally charged memorial service held in Arizona yesterday for victims of the Tucson shooting massacre, Barack Obama delivered a rousing speech that may be remembered as a watershed moment in the flailing President’s career.

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See an Unstoppable movie experience

Cheesy fist in the air moments and blatant grabs for emotional gravity always threatened to derail the twitchy pleasure of watching Unstoppable, but Scott keeps the cheese low fat and the action thick and flowing.

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Float into Coppola’s new slice-of-life

Writer/director Sofia Coppola’s slow-moving slice-of-life drama Somewhere follows the day-to-day routine of a Hollywood star as he drifts between hotels, press junkets, floozy women and juggles the duties of being a father. Stephen Dorff plays Johnny Marco, a big-name Hollywood actor forever whisked between photo ops, publicists and gushing fans. The focus is very much […]

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See a sweaty, claustrophobic thriller

Set during the 1982 Lebanon War and based entirely inside a tank, Israeli filmmaker Samuel Moaz’s Lebanon is the second single-setting war movie released in 2010.

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Daily Proposition: Introducing the hellevator

Devil is about five people trapped in an elevator. One of them is the devil. The story for the most part sidesteps expectations, ducking and weaving and messing with the viewer’s mind, making for a thrilling that moves — and not just up and down.

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See an Aussie neo-western flick

Like Machete, Red Hill captures a non-Caucasian gut-busting anti-hero who unleashes a biblical-esque plague of vengeance onto those who crossed him.

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See some slashing good schlock

Exploitation movies don’t get much more deliriously exploitative than pulpy auteur Robert Rodriguez’s high-octane tribute to grindhouse cinema.

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What the frack? Natural gas debate flares up in Australia

Documentary maker Josh Fox knew he was onto something big when he watched one of his neighbours turn on the kitchen tap and set the water that came out of it on fire.

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