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Peter Koevari, Greg Powell and Clinton Harn.

Sean Dennehy plays a scientist who partners with a weary cop to try to take down a seemingly untouchable Triad leader in Jiva, a sci-fi thriller now shooting in South-East Queensland.

It’s the first feature from producer/writer Peter Koevari’s GP2 Entertainment and actor/director Greg Powell after they collaborated on a bunch of short films including D-Evolution, Tick Tock, Mother’s Day and Ring Around a Rosie.

“Greg and I started speaking about some deep tones, feature-length ideas and came up with the idea of Jiva, which took shape after a lot of research about the soul as well as pre-planning development,” says Koevari, a novelist whose works include the dark fantasy series ‘Legends of Marithia’.

“I wanted to write something original that feels Hollywood in production quality, makes people think and want to watch the film multiple times.

“We...

It’s Super Bowl weekend, so at least we have that to look forward to. But in the film-going world there isn’t much in the way of new movies that are worthy of getting excited about. The two big choices are The Roommate and Sanctum. If you are lucky maybe your market just got 127 Hours, Biutiful, Another Year or Blue Valentine, at which point any of those are must sees. I recommend checking out The Mechanic, which debuted nationally last week, and that was a fun action flick with some good acting and stuff.

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The Roommate - The basic premise is that this film is the college experience gone awry, like the silly stupid, attempt at Hitchcock, kind of awry. Basically it revolves around college student Sara (Minka Kelly), who finds her safety jeopardized after she’s assigned to a dorm room with a new roommate,...

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“Sanctum” stars Rhys Wakefield, Allison Cratchley, Christopher Baker, Richard Roxburgh, Ioan Gruffudd, Alice Parkinson, Dan Wyllie, Nicole Downs, Cramer Cain, Andrew Hansen, John Garvin, Sean Dennehy and Nea Diap from director Alister Grierson and writers John Garvin and Andrew Wight. The film opens on Feb. 4, 2011.

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The movie poster for “Sanctum” from “Avatar” and “Titanic” creator James Cameron.

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A Prophet

Opens: February 12th 2010

Cast: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup, Adel Bencherif, Hichem Yacoubi, Reda Kateb

Director: Jacques Audiard

Summary: Sent to prison, Malik El Djebena falls under the sway of a group of Corsicans who enforce their rule in the prison. As the 'missions' go by, he toughens himself and wins their confidence but uses his intelligence to discreetly develop his own network.

Analysis: Finally scoring a limited release in the Us in February, Jacques Audiard's violent and hard-edged prison drama won the Grand Prix at Cannes, scored Best Film at the London Film Festival, and is already the hotly tipped favourite to take the Oscar for Best Foreign Film late next month.

Reviews have been stellar around the world for the film which quickly became the most universally admired entry in the often hotly contentious first week of Cannes back in May. From a breakout performance by Tahar Rahim,...