Articles by: Jemima Bucknell
Jemima Bucknell studied cinema and literature at La Trobe University. Her turn-ons are Sidney Lumet, David Cronenberg, The Sopranos and Susan Sontag; turn-offs are Inception, Robert Rodriguez, Lars Von Trier and Baz Luhrmann. Lives in Melbourne.

Film Review: Iron Sky (2012) 0
by / on May 10, 2012 at 9:56 pm / in Current Theatrical Releases, Film, Foreign

Film Review: Iron Sky (2012)

In Iron Sky we see the rise of the 4th Reich, who has been building war machines on the moon since 1945 and watching a massively abridged version of The Great Dictator to inform their growing generations of Hitler’s glory.

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Wednesdays With Woody: Stardust Memories (1980) 0
by / on May 9, 2012 at 12:30 am / in Classics, Film, Wednesdays with Woody

Wednesdays With Woody: Stardust Memories (1980)

“Art and masturbation – two areas in which I am an absolute expert.”  – Sandy Bates. Following a negative screen-test of his latest movie, Sandy Bates agrees to attend a film festival held at the Stardust Hotel, to honour his older, funnier movies.

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Film Review: Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake 3D (2011) 0
by / on May 3, 2012 at 2:55 pm / in Film

Film Review: Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake 3D (2011)

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake is a visceral modern retelling of the famed tragedy. It begins as the young Prince is vexed from his sleep by a haunting vision. The queen, a meticulous matriarch, enters to hush him but is repelled by his plea of affection, unable to embrace or console her frightened child.

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Film Review: The Woman In The Fifth (2011) 0
by / on May 2, 2012 at 1:36 pm / in Current Theatrical Releases, Film, Foreign

Film Review: The Woman In The Fifth (2011)

Ethan Hawke stars as Tom, a creepy American university professor who arrives in Paris to stalk his ex-wife and young daughter. His wife calls the police and he absconds, encountering subsequent bad luck and winding up broke in a dive of a hotel run by seedy, criminal seeming people.

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Film Review : Wish You Were Here (2012) 1
by / on April 25, 2012 at 8:58 am / in Australian Cinema, Current Theatrical Releases, Film

Film Review : Wish You Were Here (2012)

A hot and colourful twilight tableau takes us through a culture shock on the streets of Cambodia. Four friends are ecstatic – and sometimes hysteric, as they seem to be jeering and throwing their heads back in laughter at everything they encounter – but more ecstatic because they decide, on their last night, to actually take ecstasy pills at a [...]

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Film Review : The Way (2010) 0
by / on April 24, 2012 at 8:58 am / in Current Theatrical Releases, Film

Film Review : The Way (2010)

Dentist Tom Avery (Martin Sheen) flies to the Pyrenees to collect the body of his estranged son, Daniel, who has died suddenly in a storm.  Daniel (Emilio Estevez) was at the beginning of the much traversed, and historical Camino De Santiago or “The Way”, a two-month pilgrimage from the Pyrenees to Santiago embarked upon by hundreds annually.

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Film Review: Goodbye First Love (2011) 0
by / on April 3, 2012 at 1:29 pm / in Film, Foreign

Film Review: Goodbye First Love (2011)

A young man cycles the busy streets of Paris – his face masked by a black scarf ala Mick Travis in if…. (1968) – stops to buy condoms from a vending machine, and continues to his girlfriend’s house. Goodbye First Love, as its title suggests, is about the end of a relationship, so it’s a little exhausting being taken back [...]

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Film Review: A Dangerous Method (2011) 0
by / on March 28, 2012 at 4:16 pm / in Film

Film Review: A Dangerous Method (2011)

In the latest from David Cronenberg, we witness the birth of psychoanalysis – yes, talk talk talk. Filmed in Vienna, Zurich and Berlin, A Dangerous Method  chronicles the infamous dispute between its founders, Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, and the rise of Sabina Spielrein from hysteria patient, to psychoanalytic theroist.

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Film Review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011) 2
by / on March 20, 2012 at 8:59 am / in Film

Film Review: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2011)

Seven British retirees come to India for leisure and luxury in their autumn years and find new beginnings and second chances, proving the restorative nature of travel.

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Film Review: The Rum Diary (2011) 0
by / on March 13, 2012 at 12:12 pm / in Film

Film Review: The Rum Diary (2011)

A seaplane glides leisurely through the clouds and over the sparkling waters of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Dean Martin’s “Volare” carries us gently into the dank, chaos of Paul Kemp’s (Johnny Depp) hotel room after a massive bender.

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