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British author Cressida Cowell may know a thing or two about dragons but her knowledge of Vikings might need a little updating. Her series of children’s books are the basis for the new 3D animated blockbuster How to Train Your Dragon. It’s a fascinating movie that’s entertaining for all ages and I confess I shed [...]

The US media is working itself up over the appointment of Australian actor Hugh Jackman as host of next year’s Oscars. One way is even suggesting smelling salts be issued to all in the audience in case he’s a bore. The American awards ceremony hasn’t done too well of late with ratings on the slide. [...]

Why bother going to see the much hyped Australia now we all know it has a happy ending? It’s all over the media how movie-maker Baz Luhrmann’s bowed to studio pressure to get rid of the sad ending where Hugh Jackman’s character dies. The UK’s The Guardian is in on the story with “Kidman’s outback [...]

Barack Obama is not the first black president of the United States, as has been widely misreported by the world’s media. The president has been black before. Many times in fact. Perhaps the most recent appointment was actor Dennis Haysbert who played the black President David Palmer in the long-running television series 24. “If anything, [...]

With all the hype over Baz Luhrmann’s new movie Australia transforming the Queensland town of Bowen into wartime Darwin, you’d think the two places would be in the running for the star studded premier. So why is the movie getting its first big screening in Sydney? Twentieth Century Fox says the New South Wales capital [...]