I’ll list the films I liked (like Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, above) later but I just want to mention right at the start – I really disliked Birdman. I’ve been wanting to get this off my chest for some time and now is my chance.
Monthly Archives: December 2015
2015 musically by Les Everett
THE year began in the country and ended with the purchase of a new sound system that has one of those streaming things to take me into a whole new world – and a turntable that has already taken me back to a much-loved old one.
Here are some highlights…
Top songs 2015 by Rick Kane
My Top, Fave … the 12 songs I got into the most of the songs I heard in 2015
This should be a Top 10 but it’s a Top 12 and before we get into that there’s also 5 songs that just missed selection. Call it the bench. So here we go, in a particular order from 17 to 1! Continue reading
Top 10 (in sort-of chronological order) by Andrew Fithall
FILMS I MOST ENJOYED IN 2015 by Richard Jones
MOST film reviewers come up with a Top Ten list at the end of a busy year’s watching and writing. Maybe just a scant Top Five as Margaret and David used to compile on At The Movies.
For me, I go for a Top Twelve. Not a baker’s dozen, but an even figure.
Some of the movies I most enjoyed this year would certainly rate as ‘arthouse’ but there always seems to be a handful of films which most folk would classify as multiplex offerings.
So here goes for this year: Continue reading
2015 the 10 by Sean Gorman
The Straight Dope: Chip Le Grand.
The Essendon supplements scandal had (has) it all. Mystery, intrigue, big money and elite sport. Continue reading
The best of 2015 by Nick Gye
The beginning of our annual look back, your lists and essays are welcome dear readers…
Comrades, a year of great upheaval- disruption – as they say. But, was it really? Is the new normal the new normal? In a time when mediocrity abounds we look forward to a 2016 where the tortoise will be able to lay down with the lamb, and the forces of darkness shall be weakened incrementally. Continue reading
Kick-to-Kick – annual report by Vin Maskell
For ten years a small group of former non-footballers have met on Sunday mornings for The Sherrin At The Fearon kick-to-kick sessions in Williamstown, opposite the beach. It’s blokes mostly, and most on the wrong side of 50, re-living teenage glory days. (Even if those glory days were no more than kick-to-kick itself.)
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