Sleeping Beauty Review

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On face value, Australian author Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty is both a sordid and brave film-making debut that will literally divide opinion. It’s not the nudity that is the main issue for most, rather the treatment of the main character, Lucy, played by Sucker Punch’s Emily Browning that triggers deep feelings of revulsion. At the [...]

Exclusive Interview: Emily Browning Talks About Sleeping Beauty

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Famed for her lead role as Baby Doll in Zack Snyder’s fantasy action adventure Sucker Punch about an institutionalised young girl who retreats into an alternative reality as a coping mechanism while planning to escape from a mental facility, Australian actress Emily Browning talks to us about her next controversial film, Sleeping Beauty. Officially selected [...]

Lars Von Trier Happy to Talk About Melancholia

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With the fallout from Antichrist ebbing away into cinematic folk-lore,  director Lars Von Trier is beginning work on his next film, Melancholia, and at a recent press conference he opened up a little on the project. The film has been called a psychological horror film and deals with a planet looming towards the Earth and [...]

Penelope Cruz Looms Large over Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia

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Announced last year, the court jester of controversy Lars Von Trier would follow up his dark, disturbing Antichrist with a psychological disaster movie with sci-fi overtones; the name of the film is Melancholia. Never one to flog dead horses you can bet that this film, concerning itself with the effects of a large planet veering [...]