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Biography: Launched in February 1997, www.urbancinefile.com.au is Australia's premier online movie magazine and winner of the 1998 AFR Internet Awards Best Arts & Entertainment Site Award. It was again judged among the top three Entertainment sites in the 2000 Awards. Edited by film journalist Andrew L. Urban, it is updated weekly, with a comprehensive menu of reviews covering all new film releases, many DVD and VHS releases, plus star interviews and behind the scenes features, news and box office reports. Streaming videocontent includes star interviews, location reports, movie reviews, trailers.

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Total Reviews: 5585
Total QuickRatings: 4

Location: Sydney, Australia

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Fresh	Fresh 93%	Mother (2009)	" Korean film-maker Bong Joon-ho's fourth feature film, Mother, displays an assurance in suspenseful story telling that is remarkable." Posted Aug 10, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 82%	Thirst (2009)	" Thirst is a smart and exotic piece of film-making from one of Asia's leading commercial talents and a quality example of an Asian director exploring a classic genre." Posted Jun 29, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 76%	Quiet Chaos (2009)	" Moretti's imposing frame and presence form the heart of this unexpected tale about love, relationships and loss." Posted May 15, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 27%	Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)	" There are more problems than ghosts in this charmless romantic comedy in which Matthew McConaughey's Lothario gets a lesson in the love stakes." Posted May 4, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Dead Write (2009)	" Competently made and full of solid performances, Dead Write is an entertaining escape." Posted Mar 25, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Beautiful (2009)	" Clearer storytelling would bring into focus the various aspects of the film that are scattered throughout with nothing to glue them together." Posted Mar 13, 2009
Fresh	N/A	The Combination (2009)	" The kind of film Australians should be making more often. Hats off to the entire team and to David Field for his mature and intelligent direction of this gripping and relevant drama." Posted Mar 11, 2009
N/A	Rotten 51%	Easy Virtue (2009)	" It was both hellish and wonderful, he tells Andrew L. Urban in this [uncensored] interview over pots of tea in the slightly fading glory of an enormous old English-style suite" INTERVIEW Posted Mar 6, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 88%	The English Surgeon (2009)	" This multi-award winning doco is a riveting insight into something that goes on every day within reach of us all, but out of sight and mind." Posted Jan 14, 2009
—	Fresh 80%	Taxidermia (2009)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 27, 2008
—	Fresh 90%	Forbidden Lie$ (2009)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted May 19, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 67%	Paris (2009)	" Director Klapisch weaves a fascinating web with this diverse collection of characters, some of whom discover what they want only after being exposed to what they do not want." Posted Apr 10, 2008
Rotten	Rotten 34%	St. Trinian's (2009)	" Everett's Camilla Fritton, sporting a blonde wig reminiscent of another Camilla, spits out lines through prominent teeth and indulges in 'me time' at the easel, brush in hand %u2026 There are some good ideas and a few laughs, but it's all a bit Camilla-on" Posted Mar 23, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 90%	Forbidden Lie$ (2009)	" *A gripping thriller of a doco, Forbidden Lie$* mixes dramatisation as well as traditional investigative methods, resulting in a fascinating, complex film that keeps the surprises coming.**" Posted Sep 19, 2007
Fresh	N/A	Balls Out: Gary The Tennis Coach (2008)	" A tad too obvious for my liking but then it's a Sean William Scott movie -- so obviously it's obvious. But as a tennis redemption movie (not too many of them around) it stands out for a sense of gruff fun." Posted Apr 9, 2009
Fresh	N/A	The Watch (2008)	" This efficient and tightly made (if slightly flawed) horror-tinged thriller has a terrific young cast and a zesty concept." Posted Mar 19, 2009
N/A	Fresh 100%	Two Fists, One Heart (2008)	" Andrew L. Urban talks to the two young actors about their roles, their backgrounds and how intense the filmmaking was." INTERVIEW Posted Mar 19, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Two Fists, One Heart (2008)	" The themes are universal, and the simple (but not simplistic) story is delivered with considerable verve by debuting director Shawn Street and an ensemble cast that makes it zing." Posted Mar 19, 2009
Fresh	Fresh 60%	Salvation (2008)	" True to his creative, eccentric and mischievous self, Paul Cox has made another film in which he spins a web of man's own doing, a wry, acidic tale that unmasks televangelists as fakes and moral dwarfs." Posted Mar 19, 2009
Rotten	Rotten 34%	Pride and Glory (2008)	" It's predictable, it's also escapist entertainment." Posted Jan 29, 2009
Fresh	N/A	Restraint (2008)	" Dave Warner's taut and terrific screenplay gives director David Denneen plenty to work with in this classy, beautifully photographed thriller." Posted Dec 15, 2008
Fresh	N/A	Rock n Roll Nerd (2008)	" It's Tim Minchin's downbeat, dark and fatalistic sense of humour that comes through in this great doco about his rise from nowhere to somewhere." Posted Nov 24, 2008
Fresh	N/A	Trainwreck: My Life as an Idiot (2008)	" Tod Harrison Williams directs with a sense of humour that never takes cheap shots but isn't overtly reverential to the author, and the playful tone helps make the film entertaining as well as offbeat." Posted Nov 18, 2008
—	Rotten 24%	Never Back Down (2008)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 27, 2008
—	Rotten 9%	Prom Night (2008)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 27, 2008
—	Fresh 84%	Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 27, 2008
—	Fresh 60%	I Could Never Be Your Woman (2008)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 27, 2008
—	Rotten 12%	Deception (2008)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 27, 2008
—	N/A	Global Haywire (2008)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 27, 2008
Fresh	Rotten 59%	RocknRolla (2008)	" A messy, often self-indulgent film with some redeeming features (including some of its humour), Guy Ritchie's crime thriller has above average intelligence, a great cast but a below par story structure." Posted Oct 25, 2008
—	Fresh 72%	Definitely, Maybe (2008)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 18, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 100%	Kenny (2008)	" Kenny is the genuine article." Posted Oct 18, 2008
—	Fresh 100%	Kenny (2008)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 18, 2008
—	Fresh 64%	Sixty Six (2008)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 18, 2008
Fresh	Fresh 78%	Un Secret (2008)	" I was not prepared for the climactic emotional devastation, but as all the pieces fall into place, the film crystallises as perfectly as Tania's flawless backward high dive piercing through the clear water with beauty and precision." Posted Oct 18, 2008
—	Fresh 100%	Rogue (2008)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 18, 2008
—	Fresh 84%	Live and Become (2008)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 18, 2008
—	N/A	Exit (2008)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 18, 2008
—	Rotten 10%	Fool's Gold (2008)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 18, 2008
—	Rotten 50%	Romulus, My Father (2008)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 18, 2008
—	Fresh 60%	I Could Never Be Your Woman (2008)	Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008
—	Rotten 47%	Noise (2008)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 18, 2008
—	N/A	Breathing Room (2008)	Click here to read article Posted Oct 18, 2008
—	Fresh 80%	I Served the King of England (2008)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 18, 2008
—	Rotten 40%	Savage Grace (2008)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 13, 2008
—	Rotten 21%	Semi-Pro (2008)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 13, 2008
—	Fresh 75%	The Last Mistress (2008)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 13, 2008
—	Rotten 58%	Sukiyaki Western Django (2008)	Click here to read article Posted Oct 10, 2008
—	Rotten 20%	Daylight Robbery (2008)	Click here to read article Posted Oct 10, 2008
—	Fresh 79%	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)	Click here to read article DVD REVIEW Posted Oct 6, 2008

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