A look at Napoleon (R)

Not many directors nowadays would contemplate making a movie about the life of Napoleon Bonaparte – battles and political conflicts included. But, then again, Ridley Scott is no ordinary director.
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Not many directors nowadays would contemplate making a movie about the life of Napoleon Bonaparte – battles and political conflicts included. But, then again, Ridley Scott is no ordinary director.
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In the early 2000s from our homes in Williamstown (Victoria) and Fremantle (Western Australia) Vin Maskell and I started doing the same thing – taking photos of footy scoreboards.
We were alerted to the coincidence by mutual acquaintance and author of many fine footy books Paul Daffey, who said something like: “Do you know there’s a bloke on the other side of the country doing the same stupid thing as you?”
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It’s the type of sound best consumed via dodgy headphones or to accompany long drives. Poignant to those dwelling and driving in the longest city in the world, tickets sold out fast, and eager attendees lined up early on the night.
Continue readingA look at Killers of the Flower Moon (PG)

I daresay 90 per cent of us have seen Hollywood movies set in the gun-slinging wild west of the 19th century. But Martin Scorsese’s latest epic western film has fast-forwarded a few decades from those times to the post-World War 1 1920s.
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