Katina Vangopoulos

Location: Adelaide, South Australia.
Favourite Films: The Sound of Music [1965], The Breakfast Club [1985], Beauty and the Beast [1991], The Truman Show [1998], Back to the Future Trilogy [1985-1990]
Favourite Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Baz Lurhmann, John Hughes.
Favourite Genres: Classics, 80s, foreign.
Other Interests: TV, travel, most sports.

Katina has been on the Moviedex team since October 2008 as a senior contributor, covering box office reports, reviews and interviews. A qualified journalist, her love of film shaped her tertiary studies in and stemmed from discovering the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. Chasing the dream has now led Katina away from home base to Dubbo as a journalist for newspaper Daily Liberal, but a career highlight for her remains representing Moviedex at Festival de Cannes 2011.
"Moviedex has given me the platform to analyse cinema and hone my craft for those with a keen interest in reading my work. It’s important for moviegoers to watch - and to have an opinion – so we hope we can inspire you to see more and have something to say about it."

All posts by Katina:

New openers No Strings Attached and 127 Hours each performed well over the weekend with a haul of $2.2m and $1.2m respectively, pulling ahead of the Colin Firth drama The King’s Speech and the psychological thriller Black Swan, both of which are demonstrating serious staying power. The biggest tumble came in the form of Russell Crowe’s thriller The Next Three [...]

By on February 15, 2011 in
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The Australian underwater thriller Sanctum opened this week to $1.59m in box office receipts, a disappointing result given its high profile and inflated 3D ticket prices. It lost out to Darren Arnonofsky’s Black Swan, which held onto top spot with an impressive third week haul of $1.83m. The Russell Crowe thriller The Next Three Days and Dwayne Johnson vehicle Faster didn’t make much of a splash in [...]

By on February 8, 2011 in
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How quick Hollywood studios are to remake films, especially those with an international flavour. It’s astonishing to see a number of films recently ‘reworked’ for an English-speaking audience so soon after their original release; the Swedish vampire drama Let The Right One In is a prime example. As is David Fincher’s take on The Girl With The [...]

By on February 3, 2011 in
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A sigh of immense relief. That would’ve been the first reaction for Henry Cavill as the world was let in on the latest superhero secret. At the announcement the Englishman is to be the next Superman (in yet another reboot of the franchise), months of speculation have finally come to a close, and now Cavill can breathe easy knowing his shot has finally come.