The story of a down-on-his-luck publicist, who gets lucky when he discovers that a man recently released from a mental health facility looks just like a difficult Hollywood star. With the help of a powerful producer, he helps the man become a star…but in a town full of crackpots, success isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

With a wicked cast including Charlie Day, Ken Jeong (The Hangover, TVs Community), Kate Beckinsale (Underworld, Click, Total Recall), Ray Liotta (Cocaine Bear, Goodfellas), and Jason Sudekis (TVs Ted Lasso, Horrible Bosses), the film is also packed with comic cameos including Jason Bateman, Adrien Brody, Edie Falco, Glenn Howerton, John Malkovich and Jillian Bell.

Lionsgate premiered FOOL’S PARADISE in U.S. cinemas earlier this year and this Chaplin-esque Hollywood satire will launch on Digital in Australia in September.

FOOL’S PARADISE launches on Digital September 6!
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This often times led to disillusion and alienation as some of the children never felt fully immersed in either culture. Some of the foster homes were also far from perfect environments and racial prejudice was rampant at that time and greatly added to the internal unrest.

The film is loosely based on writer/director Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s actual childhood and it tells a horrifying tale about his early years. It also presents a challenge to the audience to believe and sympathise with a story almost too incredible to believe. It’s more than a harrowing experience.

The young child Enitan (Damson Idris), a quiet and introspective child is so traumatised and yearns to fit in so badly, when he hits his teen years he joins a skin-head group lead by a white supremacist. It’s difficult to see this scenario happening in real life but it’s easy to feel how damaged he is. Sometime life truly is stranger than fiction.

Farming is currently screening at Dendy cinemas – head to their website for more information about screenings and to book tickets online www.dendy.com.au

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Based on his own incredible autobiographical story, writer director Adewale Akinnuoye Agbaje’s FARMING follows a young Nigerian boy as he is drawn into the warper world of a racist skinhead gang in 1980’s England.

Enitan is a young boy “farmed out” by his parents to a white British family in the hope of giving him a better future. Caught between two worlds and belonging to neither, Enitan’s need for love and acceptance is exploited by the adults in his life, transforming a sweet boy into a teenage menace.

FARMING won Best Picture and Best Actor at the Edinburgh Film Festival 2019, and will be screening at the MINI British Film Festival (29 Oct – 24 Nov).

In Australian cinemas November 21.
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The film fan in me loves the Underworld movies whilst the film critic in me says, “Why on earth do you subject yourself to this nonsense?” Yes, it’s easy to be critical of this franchise but the truth is I have a soft spot for Vampires and Werewolves combined with action violence, and a somewhat less soft spot for Kate Beckinsale in heels, skin-tight black vinyl and twin fully automatic pistols.

The plot is strictly by the numbers and the horror quotient is probably lower than it’s ever been in this series (bar, perhaps, one or two moments) but the fantasy action keeps things interesting enough. Some stunning continuity errors mean you probably shouldn’t follow the proceedings too closely but rather just enjoy the ride.

In the end, Underworld: Blood Wars is an average entry into an increasingly tired franchise (which isn’t done yet!) and is really just a stopgap for its existing fan base.

Stuart Jamieson
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Starring Kate Beckinsale, Chloë Sevigny, Tom Bennebt, and Australian Xavier Samuel in his first romantic lead role, Love & Friendship is an adaptation of young Jane Austen’s novella, Lady Susan. Set in the 1790’s, earlier than most Austen novels, Love & Friendship concerns beautiful young widow Susan Vernon who has come to Churchill, the estate of her in-laws, to wait out colourful rumours about her dalliances circulating through polite society.

Love & Friendship is witty, with wickedly humorous quick fire dialogue providing refreshing appeal to this beautiful costume drama, with all the things you would expect from an Austen adaptation; romance, beautiful period costumes and settings, as well as plenty of gossip and drama.

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Competition will be drawn 20 July 2016, winners will be notified by mail.