October 2008
2 posts
With age goes wisdom
The coming and going of wisdom: Access via Lauren4PM
Google has given society many wonderful things: parents can diffuse any responsibility of imparting knowledge with their children, stalkers can find out interesting personal information about their prospective sweethearts and as I discovered two weeks ago, at the click of a mouse you can work yourself into an absolute frenzy before a medical...
WALL-E review
Access via The Detroit News
If movies like I, Robot taught us to fear artificial intelligence, WALL-E encourages us to embrace it and maybe consider adopting a robot of our own. Set in a projected future where the earth is overflowing with towers of rubbish and humans have vacated their dying planet for a constant holiday aboard a hyper-capitalist spaceship, Disney Pixar’s WALL-E is a cute...
September 2008
5 posts
Be Kind, Rewind review
Access via Yahoo Movies: Production Photos
Maybe I don’t really have the authority to review this film as I did have my eyes shut for the last half hour while I drifted in and out of consciousness but I gave away an hour and a half of my life goddammit! Be Kind, Rewind is directed by Michael Gondry and despite the cute plot and Jack Black’s highly strung brand of humour, it falls short in...
Tango'd
Lucy Davis - severe case of tanorexia. Access via Go Fug Yourself
Aaah, I think I might be ‘tanorexic’!
On Saturday, Spring blew in on a hot gravy breeze and suddenly everything was different; people eagerly departed with their clothes, topped up on their supply of hayfever meds and donned their manky old thongs to hit the streets and make the most of the warmth. When I headed home from work,...
That Guy is bad.. mmmkay!
Background In the wake of several Australian health campaigns, Martha and I decided it would be interesting to examine the use of the web to communicate health messages. ThatGuy.com was the 2007 winner of the Webby Awards’ Health category and is a website at the nucleus of a broader binge drinking campaign known as the ‘don’t be That Guy’ campaign, introduced in late 2006. ‘That Guy’ is coined...
Tattslotto!
This blog from music/film/theatre critic Martha Tattersall is really a jackpot for anyone searching for opinion with integrity. A journalism and international studies student lucky enough to work at one of Sydney’s live music venues, the author of Tit for Tat offers reviews with personality on a diverse range of cultural events from the poncey… ahem, I mean delightful Billy Elliot to the soulful...
Sarah Palin - Governor turned Grandmother
Access via NewMatilda.com
A couple of days ago, Republican Presidential nominee John McCain surprised the public with his choice of running mate, Sarah Palin. Today Palin revealed a surprise of her own. Yes, the Governer of Alaska’s 17-year old daughter, Bristol, is five months pregnant. Now, you can think what you will about teen pregnancy but what intrigues me is the effect this will have on...
The Bank Job review
Once I got over the ridiculous price rise of movie tickets, I really enjoyed The Bank Job.
Access via Collider.com
It’s based on actual events of one of the biggest bank heists in London which occurred in 1971. While the press went crazy for a few days about the case, they were silenced with a D-notice apparently due to some material that could hurt the authorities. Jason Statham is at the...
August 2008
13 posts
I am Aeroplane Jelly
Access via Rex
I love flying, what an incredible feat of mankind. I used to take the train back to Wodonga and it was eight hours of discomfort usually next to the craziest or drunkest person onboard. Then when flights became only 20 bucks more and seven hours less than the train journey, I became a frequent flyer and I’ve never looked back. Don’t get me wrong, there are still negatives to...
Pineapple Express review...
I’m going to have to disagree with all the negative critics that didn’t see the fun in this film because I absolutely loved it!
Access via StarPulse
Directed by David Gordon Green, Pineapple Express is the tale of a hapless stoner and his dealer who find themselves running for their lives after a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Pot-smoking process server Dale Denton (Seth...
Sold.. to the lady in red (wine).
I bet you’ve never imagined that a dress could made from red wine… And quite frankly, why would you? If you’re anything like me, you’re quite happy necking the stuff of a weekend and don’t feel the need to dress in it…
Grapeskin glamour: Access via Gary Cass Well anyway, they exist and this morning I touched one. Yes, I plodded on down to the Ultimo Science Festival to cover the story for...
Fourteen bucks?! Bugger that!
Oh my God, Hoyts has put up its movie prices to fourteen-bloody-dollars for a student!!! This is ridiculous, are they insane? As if there are not enough reasons to download films illegally already. Geez, if I didn’t sneak in my own lollies, my bank account would be bled dry. This is an injustice. Let’s start a petition for all the disgruntled tight-fisted film-goers that share my disgust....
"So your favourite animal's a shark? I almost came...
Eagle vs Shark was New Zealand director, Taika Waititi’s first film and after advertising it to death during the breaks of Flight of the Conchords, I just had to see it.
Awesome tackiness - Access via The Age and Web Wombat
It stars Jermaine Clement (one half of Flight) as Jarrod, an arrogant and passive-aggressive nerd with a score to settle and Loren Horsley as Lily, an awkward but innocent...
A sad day for soul...
Yes children, Chef is dead.
Soul, South Park and Scientology… Access via BBC
I found out the tragic news this morning online but all reports seemed a tad vague around the cause of death. One report says he was found unconscious near a treadmill that was still running… usch… what a way to go. But the BBC said it was most likely he died from a medical condition, as Hayes suffered from high...
“I am the punishment of God...If you had not...
Tadanobu Asano as Genghis Khan. Access via Igor Vereshagin
Well, after two hours and four minutes, this movie certainly felt like punishment to me. Mongol is the tale of the early life of Genghis Khan, or at least it claims to be which, I guess was my main problem with the film and where my criticism starts. The film documents the childhood of the man who went on to conquer half the world in...
Please suck my brains out through a straw, I'm not...
Please excuse me while I vomit out a tiny rant about the state of mainstream cinema of late. Is the movie industry so powered by revenue that it can think of nothing original anymore? Why have there been so many gosh darn sequels? Spiderman, Shrek, Pirates of the Carribean- trust me, there’s not too much more watery milk to be squeezed out of those teats.
And then there were the TV...
“I have stones to sell, fat to chew and many different men to see about many...”
– Franky Four Fingers, Snatch
July 2008
1 post
The wheel may be spinning, but the hamster's...
I am undead today. The holidays have left me in a state of mindless staring, glassy-eyed stupor and even this sentence has taken me thirteen minutes to write. Towards the end of the break, I started to get a warped perception of how fun and easy uni is, even convincing myself I wanted to return. The empty days and my parents pathetic collection of old VHS tapes made me realise two weeks is too...