Wednesdays With Woody: Stardust Memories (1980)
by“Art and masturbation – two areas in which I am an absolute expert.” – Sandy Bates. Following a negative screen-test of his latest movie,…
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TV Review: Smash, Episode 12
byOpportunism has been mentioned in my previous Smash reviews for good reason: Ellis (Jaime Cepero) is the modern day Eve Harrington (with gender and…
Film Review: Safe (2012)
bySafe, the new Jason Statham action vehicle, takes a more interesting approach then his usual fare. It takes at its core the story of…
Film Review: Trishna (2011)
byBritish director Michael Winterbottom would have to be one of the most relentlessly ambitious directors working in film today, constantly jumping between wildly different…
TV Review: Conspiracy 365, May
byFinally! In the May episode it’s an ‘at last!’ moment when Winter (Marny Kennedy) and Bogues (Taylor Glocker) work as a team to help…
TV Reviews: Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Episode 11
byThose pesky writers tricked us all! Here we were thinking they abandoned the best sub plot ever but they have pulled the wool over…
Film Review: Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake 3D (2011)
byMatthew Bourne’s Swan Lake is a visceral modern retelling of the famed tragedy. It begins as the young Prince is vexed from his sleep…
Film Review: The Woman In The Fifth (2011)
byEthan Hawke stars as Tom, a creepy American university professor who arrives in Paris to stalk his ex-wife and young daughter. His wife calls…
Film Review: King of Devil’s Island (2010)
bySet 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…
TV Review: Smash, Episode 11
byPurposefully cringeworthy moments are aplenty as Rebecca Duvall (Uma Thurman) takes centre stage in Smash. Writers Julie Rottenberg and Elisa Zuritsky provide dialogue that…