WOMADdelaide 2012 – Saturday
Among the idyllic surroundings of Botanic Park and under blemish-free skies, Japanese orchestra Pascals had the task of opening Womadelaide 2012’s second day. Click Here.
View ArticlePeople’s Movies Blog – Part 3(D)
It was the music, the characters, the death, loss and personal growth of the young Simba that made The Lion King the wonderful film it is. That and the fat, flatulent pig. Click Here.
View ArticlePeople’s Movies Blog – Multiperplexed
The dismal experience is in no way softened by the fact that my used cinema ticket now permits me to purchase two meals for the price of one at a local, Manhattan-themed café-bar between 4-6pm,...
View ArticleGlasgow FrightFest: Evidence – Review
Following in the wake of recent notables such as: Rec, Cloverfield, and the Paranormal Activity franchise, Evidence looks to make a name for itself in what is fast-becoming an overcrowded genre; that...
View ArticleMelancholia – Review
With Melancholia, Von Trier has abandoned the jarring minimalism of Dogville or Manderlay, the applied visual chastity of The Idiots… Click Here.
View ArticlePeople’s Movies Blog – Two (Spirit) Fingers Up.
I saw Jeff Daniels complaining about his job, his money and his property and wanted to be sick. Click Here.
View ArticleLes Amours Secretes – Review
Amidst the death and heartbreak of the Nazi occupation of France, in Les Amours Secretes, we find love in the most unlikely of couplings. Click Here.
View ArticleXinhai Geming – Review
An epilogue which frames the uprising as a precursor to Communist victory in 1949 achieved by “following the spirit of Sun Yat-sen”, serves only to add another level of historical fug… Click Here.
View ArticlePeople’s Movies Blog – The Twelve Films of Christmas
In an ill-conceived attempt to inject myself with Christmas cheer I recently forced myself to sit through a dozen festive films.
View ArticleA Few Best Men – Review
The film takes the proverb: “with friends like these, who needs enemies?” and stretches it as far as conceivably possible in the hopes of raising a smile.
View ArticleThe Hangover Part 3
With the first two installments taking north of a billion dollars worldwide, it was inevitable that we’d find ourselves subjected to a third chapter of this worryingly popular series. Mercifully, this...
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