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TV Review: Game of Thrones, S2E4 0
by / on May 2, 2012 at 8:59 am / in TV

TV Review: Game of Thrones, S2E4

Warning: full spoilers follow. “Leave her face, I like her pretty”. Despicable as he is, every scene with the terrible King Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) seems more fiendishly entertaining than the last.

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Film Review: King of Devil’s Island (2010) 0
by / on May 1, 2012 at 10:02 am / in Current Theatrical Releases, Film, Foreign

Film Review: King of Devil’s Island (2010)

Set in Norway’s infamous Bastøy Prison, once a reformatory prison colony for delinquent boys, The King of Devil’s Island depicts the lead up to a series of riots that took place at the facility during the early part of the 20th century.

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TV Review: Smash, Episode 11 0
by / on May 1, 2012 at 8:54 am / in TV

TV Review: Smash, Episode 11

Purposefully cringeworthy moments are aplenty as Rebecca Duvall (Uma Thurman) takes centre stage in Smash. Writers Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky provide dialogue that is amusing as Tricia Brock and the writing team behind Smash take the show into fresh territory.

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Trailer: Hope Springs (2012) 0
by / on April 28, 2012 at 6:56 pm / in Trailers

Trailer: Hope Springs (2012)

A trailer has arrived for the new Meryl Streep flick. Fresh from her pick up at the Oscars, Streep returns with a less meaty role. No, there’s no accent or fancy makeup to be fooled by, it’s just plain ol’ Streep on show. Hope Springs reunites Streep with Devil Wears Prada director David Frankel, in what will hopefully be another [...]

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TV Review: Tangle, S3E6 0
by / on April 27, 2012 at 11:15 am / in TV

TV Review: Tangle, S3E6

A gripping conclusion leaves Tangle fans on the edge of their seats as the season finale airs this Sunday. John Edwards, Imogen Banks and Fiona Seres created a series that saw two families sledging through the muck and mire of modern day family life.

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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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Film Review: Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy (2011) 0
by / on April 25, 2012 at 8:59 am / in Current Theatrical Releases, Film

Film Review: Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy (2011)

“The only mediator between God and man is ecstasy.” Irvine Welsh’s Ecstasy continues its titular author’s fascination with the drug culture, set at the bottom of the crime world, the “mean streets” of Edinburgh, after the Danny Boyle’s classic Trainspotting.

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TV Review: Game of Thrones, S2E3 0
by / on April 25, 2012 at 8:59 am / in TV

TV Review: Game of Thrones, S2E3

Warning, full spoilers follow. “A very small man can cast a very large shadow.” Tiny Tyrion toys with a trio of treacherous traitors, Margaery’s mighty mammaries are of minimal meaning to her man-loving man, and Yoran shaves his last spider’s arse.

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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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Wednesdays With Woody: Interiors (1978) 0
by / on April 25, 2012 at 8:57 am / in Classics, Film, Wednesdays with Woody

Wednesdays With Woody: Interiors (1978)

Interiors holds the distinction of being Woody Allen’s first entirely dramatic work, and while he has explored more serious subject matter in other parts of his later career, this was a marked shift from the screwball comedies of his early years.

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