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Whoopi With Your Best Shot: The Color Purple 15 Aug 2013 | 11:25 am
Typical me, I got a copy of the film in order to do an entry for The Film Experience's beloved (says I) "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" series. Typical because it's now 2am the day after participants wer...
A Reminder About Dan Futterman 24 Jul 2013 | 11:55 pm
Just in case you'd forgotten about Dan Futterman, the gorgeous hairy-chested man from Judging Amy, The Birdcage (he was the straight one) and Urbania (he was definitely the gay one) is still incredib...
The Only Way Was Up 24 Jul 2013 | 12:06 am
Lest we forget that the first of X-Men's "origin" prequels (or whatever, who can keep track as to what's what with that franchise at the moment?), punnily titled First Class had what could fairly be d...
Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Mary Poppins 18 Jul 2013 | 09:37 am
I had never seen Mary Poppins before today. This somewhat startling fact had become more or less a running gag with certain friends since they just could not fathom why I hadn't seen it and why I had ...
Hit Me With Your Best Shot: American Graffiti 4 Jul 2013 | 10:56 am
George Lucas has been saying he's going to leave big budget movies behind and refocus on the small ones that began his career in the 1970s. Anybody who has paid any attention knows that that is never ...
Review: Continental & The Secret Disco Revolution 3 Jul 2013 | 10:28 pm
Continental Dir. Malcolm Ingram Country: USA Running Time: 95mins Rating: N/A The Secret Disco Revolution Dir. Jamie Kastner Country: Canada / USA / France Running Time: 90mins Rating: N/A “...
San Francisco FIPRESCI Review: Nights with Théodore 3 Jul 2013 | 09:17 pm
Nights with Théodore Dir. Sebastien Betbeder Country: France Running Time: 67mins Aus Rating: N/A At only 67 minutes long, Sébastien Betbeder's captivating genre mash-up Nights with Théodore (L.....
Rush to the Waxworks 2 Jul 2013 | 10:00 am
I feel like I've seen the trailer for Rush ahead of every single new release movie from the last six months. You know the one? The one that shows you every.single.beat. of the trailer. I know it's bas...
Turning Up 29 Jun 2013 | 01:12 am
It seems that the Sydney-based omnibus film Sydney, I Love You is never going to get made due to legal issues, which means there's only one anthology film coming out from these shores. That's still mo...
50 Shades More Interesting with a Female Director 21 Jun 2013 | 09:50 am
I have no genuine opinions of 50 Shades of Gray - I'm neither here nor there about the famous book and its notorious "mommy porn" tag. Don't get me wrong, it sounds like rubbish. Alas, I haven't read ...
