Articles by: Kate-Ida Holleman
Kate-Ida Holleman has a BA in Professional Writing and Philosophy from Deakin University and a Master in Creative Media (Screenwriting) from RMIT. She has taught Screenwriting across rural Victoria and specializes in genre, narrative structure and characterization. Kate-Ida is also a freelance writer and editor and has been published in the Herald Sun, The Age, ABC online as well as magazines and newspapers.

TV Review: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Episode 13 3
by / on May 18, 2012 at 8:59 am / in TV

TV Review: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Episode 13

Tonight’s final installment of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries will knock your socks off with pure awesomeness.

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TV Review: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Episode 12 3
by / on May 11, 2012 at 8:28 am / in TV

TV Review: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Episode 12

This is by far the most exciting, most awesome, most thrilling episode of the Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries yet! So get your tea and bikkies ready and no toilet breaks!

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Film Review: The Five-Year Engagement (2012) 0
by / on May 7, 2012 at 7:48 pm / in Current Theatrical Releases, Film

Film Review: The Five-Year Engagement (2012)

Directed by Nicholas Stoller, The Five-Year Engagement had one wonderful thing going for it. It’s the reason all women flock to the cinema: the delightful and loveable Jason Segel who plays Tom, the selfless good guy fiancé of the selfish, boring, and thoughtless shrew that is Violet (Emily Blunt).

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TV Reviews: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Episode 11 1
by / on May 4, 2012 at 8:58 am / in TV

TV Reviews: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Episode 11

Those pesky writers tricked us all! Here we were thinking they abandoned the best sub plot ever but they have pulled the wool over our eyes and then smacked us with the sheep from whence the wool came.

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TV Review: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Episode 10 2
by / on April 27, 2012 at 8:59 am / in TV

TV Review: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Episode 10

In the first installment of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries , I made claims that our beloved Phryne (Essie Davis) was like Macgyver. New evidence has come to light proving this beyond reasonable doubt and that perhaps our beloved writers have been sub-consciously channeling that oh-so-clever stud muffin from the eighties?

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TV Review: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Episode 9 2
by / on April 20, 2012 at 7:04 pm / in TV

TV Review: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Episode 9

In tonight’s delicious installment of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries titled ‘Queen of the Flowers’ Phryne (Essie Davis) is teaching some downtrodden young ladies maidens, proper grooming, fox trotting and etiquette for a town event where they can show off there fine skills.

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TV Review: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Episode 8 2
by / on April 13, 2012 at 8:59 am / in TV

TV Review: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Episode 8

With the death of Miss Fisher’s (Essie Davis) teacher Miss Lavender there isn’t really much of a mystery in tonight’s episode of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. 

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FAFA: The Interview (1998) 0
by / on April 13, 2012 at 8:11 am / in Australian Cinema, FAFA (Favourite Australian Film Assignment), Film, Uncategorized

FAFA: The Interview (1998)

A dawn raid of Eddie Fleming’s (Hugo Weaving) apartment throws him into a world of chaos as he is dragged to his local police station to answer questions about the disappearance of family man Mr. Beecroft.

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TV Review: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Episode 7 0
by / on April 6, 2012 at 9:00 am / in TV

TV Review: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Episode 7

Every week Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries gets better and better. The now charming and delicious Detective Jack (Nathan Page) has started to work his flirty man powers over Miss Fisher (Essie Davis) and she is loving every moment of it and honestly, so are we.

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TV Review: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Episode 6 0
by / on March 30, 2012 at 5:00 pm / in TV

TV Review: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Episode 6

This is the best instalment for the romantic at heart of the whimsy Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. A glammed-up night at the theatre turns into murder when two actors are killed on stage, although predictable, the episode is fun and involves stage songs, mysterious notes, ghosts, superstitions, axe throwing, alley way kung fu, ancient Chinese curses and a direct death [...]

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