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Why not see the year's biggest and loudest film in the biggest and loudest way possible -- IMAX? Thanks to Paramount, Rotten Tomatoes have 10 in-season double passes to see Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at Sydney's IMAX theatre.

Sandra Bullock showed North America who's boss with her return to romantic comedy in The Proposal which gave the actress the biggest opening of her career and her first number one hit in over a decade. Rival comedy Year One enjoyed a respectable debut in fourth place while holdover sensations The Hangover and Up continued their amazing runs with small declines once again. Thanks to four funny films topping $20M a piece, the overall marketplace inched ahead of last year's levels for the first time in four weeks putting the industry in a good position with Megan Fox and the...

What do you do when you discover the culprit of a drugs ring dealing crazy-ass smack to orphans is the president of the United States? It's a quandary troubling Michael Jai White as the titular star of Black Dynamite, an hilarious spoof of Blaxsploitation cinema that played in Edinburgh yesterday. "Jai White perfectly embodies the exaggerated characteristics of heroes of the genre like Shaft, Sweet Sweetback, and Super Fly," says Scott Collura of IGN. "But while much of this stuff is funny and engaging, it all starts to feel too familiar at about the halfway mark, leaving us with the...

The fun continued in Edinburgh as the Edinburgh International Film Festival entered its third day in the Scottish town. Amongst the films on offer were The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq war story with Jeremy Renner, and Wasted, a homegrown Scottish film that's attracting much buzz. But perhaps the most exciting film screening yesterday had to wait for the Night Moves slot, at 10PM, to get its world premiere. Stuart Hazeldine's Exam is the real job interview from hell -- a group of highly driven career types enter a small room with nothing but a guard at the door and...

Food Party: best described as a Julia Child-hosted type of cooking show, if the set were designed by Michel Gondry, the episodes directed by Tim and Eric, and Julia Child replaced by a diminutive Asian bohemian. Hosted and created by 27-year old Brooklyn artist Thu Tran, Food Party gained cult status as a web series and has retained all of its DIY charms transitioning to cable television (it's currently airing on IFC through July 14th every Tuesday at 11:15PM and you can watch clips on their site). Viewers old and new are treated to Food Party's first season marathon of...