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Andrew L. Urban

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Andrew L. Urban is Publisher & Editor of Urban Cinefile, Australia's award winning online weekly movie magazine (est. 1997). Specialising in film journalism, Andrew was Australian bureau chief for London based film trade publications from 1985 to 1994. He was Channel Host for the World Movies subscription movie channel (2002-6), and with his publishing partner and wife Louise Keller, he co-produced and hosted Movies This Week, a short movie review program, broadcast on World Movies and the Ovation arts & entertainment channel (2004-5). Since July 2005, Andrew has presented Movies Now, a contemporary movie appreciation course at Sydney University's Centre for Continuing Education. In January 2007, Andrew was commissioned by the Australian Film Television and Radio School's Centre for Screen Business to produce an extensive series of in depth on camera interviews with film and 온라인카지노추천 industry practitioners, for the CSB website; the series continues into 2008. Prior to Urban Cinefile, Andrew created the prime time social documentary series, Front Up, which ran for 9 years on SBS 온라인카지노추천.

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American Psycho (2000) 68% “ Christian Bale is brilliant as Patrick Bateman.” – Urban Cinefile Apr 2, 2025 Full Review Noise (2007) 80% “Noise is an interesting work, notable for its lack of hysterics in dealing with appalling crimes and yet insightful of them.” – Urban Cinefile Jul 15, 2020 Full Review Dragged Across Concrete (2018) 76% “Clever filmmaking.” – Urban Cinefile Aug 14, 2019 Full Review Yesterday (2019) 63% “They are still a river of great songs, nostalgia notwithstanding, and The Beatles can only be forgotten in a parallel universe of Richard Curtis' imagination, as in Yesterday.” – Urban Cinefile Jun 20, 2019 Full Review Red Joan (2018) 30% “Red Joan is a film for grown ups with an appreciation of cinema and an openness to explore human nature in all sorts of compromising circumstances.” – Urban Cinefile May 28, 2019 Full Review Hotel Mumbai (2018) 76% “It's a demanding and challenging film, confronting as it takes us so close to an inhuman, amoral hate we cannot comprehend.” – Urban Cinefile Mar 11, 2019 Full Review The Guilty (2018) 98% “With limited images but telling sounds and dialogue, The Guilty creates a unique movie inside each of our heads.” – Urban Cinefile Feb 25, 2019 Full Review Arctic (2018) 91% “I guess most survivor thrillers are kinda torture porn and Arctic is one in which the torture is dealt out by nature.” – Urban Cinefile Jan 20, 2019 Full Review Mary Queen of Scots (2018) 62% “You could call it operatic, if there was more music and singing, a history rich in drama, intrigue, death, destruction, power - and a bit of love.” – Urban Cinefile Jan 18, 2019 Full Review Green Book (2018) 77% “Both Mortensen and rapper/actor Mahershala give us profoundly anchored characterisations, showing two imperfect people grappling with a flawed world.” – Urban Cinefile Jan 18, 2019 Full Review Vice (2018) 64% “Full of bold cinematic ideas, Vice has a personality of its own, quite distinct from but complimentary to the character (Jesse Plemons) who provides some narration for the film, as well as a body part ... but let's leave that bit for you to discover.” – Urban Cinefile Dec 18, 2018 Full Review The Favourite (2018) 93% “Fruity is what it is, sometimes squashy and overripe, sometimes firm and appealing, but everything about this film is rich and slightly pungent, including the characters.” – Urban Cinefile Dec 13, 2018 Full Review Cold War (2018) 92% “If you want an uplifting entertainment, go and see Mary Poppins this Christmas. But if you want cinema that challenges and digs into your soul, catch a Cold War.” – Urban Cinefile Dec 10, 2018 Full Review The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) 38% “Apart from a couple of minor continuity fibs, the filmmakers do a solid job of emulating a Hollywood thriller, down to the scrambled hand held camera work - which sometimes fails to provide clear information.” – Urban Cinefile Nov 18, 2018 Full Review The Old Man & the Gun (2018) 93% “The film is entertaining and engaging, with plenty of character to be involved with, not to mention gentlemanly 'old world' bank robbing.” – Urban Cinefile Nov 18, 2018 Full Review Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) 60% “Whether you are or were a Queen fan, Bohemian Rhapsody stands alone as a terrific film, made the more moving and engaging by the truth of its story, complete with its pathos, melancholy, triumph and death.” – Urban Cinefile Nov 11, 2018 Full Review Van Helsing (2004) 24% “Van Helsing is the epitome of an escapist movie - the kind that used to be shown on Saturday afternoon. But now, thanks to massive budgets and big-name stars, Saturday comes seven days a week.” – Urban Cinefile Nov 1, 2018 Full Review X-Men (2000) 82% “Indeed, even Hugh Jackman was not cast in this role for his neon-lit global fame among the youth... although he earns a place in the starry firmament of cinema with this well judged performance.” – Urban Cinefile Oct 30, 2018 Full Review Moulin Rouge (2001) 75% “Moulin Rouge is a seductive and original film, a turbocharged tribute to romanticism.” – Urban Cinefile Oct 29, 2018 Full Review A Star Is Born (2018) 90% “Lady Gaga is a natural; Ally is talented and cursed with the insecurity that is talent's twin. Her face glows with natural beauty, not manufactured and not afraid of the camera's intrusions. There is chemistry there ...” – Urban Cinefile Oct 12, 2018 Full Review Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) 75% “You're going to remember this film. And you're going to remember Darlene (Cynthia Erivo), the black singer whose voice is as good as her story. And young Miles (Lewis Pullman), the motel gofer whose innocuous presence hides a secret or 23.” – Urban Cinefile Oct 10, 2018 Full Review First Man (2018) 87% “For those familiar with the history of both the politics and the space program, it is a neat reminder, and highly relevant in an age which takes it for granted that man can make a film the credible replicates the moon landing...” – Urban Cinefile Sep 24, 2018 Full Review Searching (2018) 92% “This is not just a high concept movie, it is a drama well served by a script that is designed to fit the vehicle and vice versa.” – Urban Cinefile Sep 8, 2018 Full Review BlacKkKlansman (2018) 96% “Spike Lee is a political activist and 'jive artist' of note so you would not be surprised that Blackkklansman is not just strong cinema but strong on propaganda, too.” – Urban Cinefile Sep 5, 2018 Full Review Crazy Rich Asians (2018) 91% “It starts all flim-flam and multi coloured visuals, makes you smile and laugh until you're hooked and then it brings up the heavy guns of drama: broken loyalties, broken families, broken promises and broken hearts.” – Urban Cinefile Aug 20, 2018 Full Review
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