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Giles Hardie is an Australian film critic, entertainment journalist, producer and television personality.

Film Reviewing
In 2008, Hardie established the weekly Pick of the Flicks film review video that appears on the Fairfax Media websites, including The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. He is the writer, producer and host of the segment which reviews mainstream films in their week of release in Australian cinemas.

He also conducts on camera interviews with a variety of celebrities including the cast of Harry Potter, Vince Vaughn and Jason Bateman as well as Hugh Jackman.

Hardie has written a film blog on The Sydney Morning Herald website since October 2008, entitled Get Flick'd. It includes the annual list of the best and worst films of the year.

In 2011 he was appointed Entertainment Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald online.

Hardie currently covers cinema across the Fairfax Media websites including smh.com.au, theage.com.au, brisbanetimes.com.au and watoday.com.au. He is the regular film critic on 702ABC's Evenings with Dom Knight and KOFM's Breakfast with David and Tanya. Hardie is a regular guest on the Nine Network's Mornings show discussing film and television stars. From 2011 to 2012 he was a regular host on The Movie Club on Foxtel's Showtime network. Hardie has appeared as a film critic on many Australian radio and television programmes including Sunrise, Today Tonight, Lateline and ABC News Breakfast.

Along with Marc Fennell and Alice Tynan, Hardie established the Spoiler Guys podcast in 2012, dissecting new release films in a light-hearted manner on a weekly basis, without regard for plot spoilers.

Television
In 2007 Hardie was arrested as one of the 11 participants in a stunt carried out for the ABC television show The Chaser's War on Everything at the Sydney APEC summit. In the stunt, a fake Canadian motorcade was waved through the security perimeter into the exclusion zone. Hardie was one of the actors dressed as security guards running alongside the motorcade.

Producer
He also co-produces a web series about movie trailers, Coming Sooner, with Nick Hayden and Nicholas McDougall.