A look at Carol (M)…
CATE Blanchett is at her very best in the adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s love story, set in early 1950s New York and New Jersey. Continue reading
Category Archives: Movies
But I know what I like by Richard Jones
A look at Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (M)…
WE wouldn’t know nearly as much about the life of celebrated art collector and innovator Peggy Guggenheim unless long-lost audiotapes had been tracked down. Continue reading
Downhill ride by Richard jones
A look at The Program (M)…
LANCE Armstrong is perhaps the greatest drug cheat world sport has ever known.
Of course seven-time Tour de France cycling champion Armstrong made his now notorious 2012 confession on The Oprah Winfrey Show although his cheating had been chronicled well beforehand by Sunday Times journalist David Walsh. Continue reading
Don’t blush baby by Richard Jones
A look at Suffragette (M)
MAUD Adams works in a laundry sweatshop in 1912 and is tasked one late afternoon to deliver a parcel of clothes to a west London client. Continue reading
THE FLICKS OF ‘15 by Dean Schulze
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.
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
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
Not about bikes
In 2001 I was in France during the Tour de France and followed it closely on TV marvelling at the American Lance Armstrong and barracking for Australian Stuart O’Grady in the sprint section.
Spy swap meet by Richard Jones
A look at Bridge Of Spies (M)
JUST about everyone on the planet knows where they were when Princess Diana died in that car crash in a Paris underpass tunnel. Continue reading
A penguin’s best friend by Richard Jones
A look at Oddball (G)
I THINK we can take it as read that Aussie audiences just love animal films. Continue reading
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