The Harpo In The South
A night at the theatre MARX an occasion. It would be unfair to make wild statements such as I knew my wife was the one when she agreed to accompany me to a Marx Brothers double at the rep cinema but it...
View ArticleActing Like A Maniac …WHIPLASH!
My world did move to the beat of just one drum. When it became apparent that Birdman was the big Oscar contender for 2015 I was somewhat relieved. I could finally desert those British geniuses and...
View ArticleThe Hangover Makes The List
The harmonious marriage between movies and hangovers. Most weekends now-a-days are fairly busy regardless of how exciting or mundane my plans are. I’m finding I have less and less days or even moments...
View ArticleHowling Of The Wolfpack
Gobsmacked by THE PACK. I’m certainly no stranger to having a good old reminisce about seeing a film and as an afterthought find some significance with what was happening in my life at the time...
View ArticleSSSSHHOOOOOOOSSSSHH!
A brief history of cinema talkers and shooshers. My wife Laura and I recently did something that we’ve been threatening to do for a very long time. We walked away from people talking in the cinema....
View ArticleNo Dramas
Why Aussie prison flick GHOSTS… OF THE CIVIL DEAD is like an old habit that’s hard to kick. An immediate desire to dig out my DVD copy of John Hillcoat’s Ghosts… Of The Civil Dead once again was...
View ArticleVerti-Ghost
I look for answers within (read: wrestle with) cinematic giant VERTIGO. It must be with great trepidation that you should attempt to write something (anything) about Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece...
View ArticleHallow Amityville
Happy Halloween. I spill my guts about THE AMITYVILLE HORROR. It was war. After years of hopelessly searching for Jay Anson’s elusive book The Amityville Horror, a yellow paged, crease laden paperback...
View ArticleHow I “Rhett” Your Mother
An open letter to my one week old daughter about the movies that united her parents. My wife and I became parents this week so I figure what better time than right now to reveal to our daughter,...
View ArticleA New Empire Strikes The Jedi
Coming to terms with a new instalment of STAR WARS. A new Star Wars saga comes but once every bi-decade or so and as a Star Wars kid, a fully-fledged disciple of George Lucas’ imagination, it takes a...
View ArticleLights. Camera. CHAINSAW!
Why there should definitely be a movie about the making of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Listen up Hollywoodland, I have I picture just for you! It’s a heavy drama, a horror and a true story all in one!...
View ArticleIt Belongs in a Museum… In Hollywood.
Hollywood truce over a museum worth travelling to the other side of the world for. With the Golden Globes in our rear-vision mirror, let the official burst of excitement engulf us for our dear friend...
View ArticleCinema Withdrawals
They’re real. Despite increasing ticket sales and advanced technology in home theatre systems, global box office records have consistently remained on the rise. As of 2014 the global box office reached...
View ArticleOscar Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
The viewer’s pressure during award season. Is it wrong that at this particular point in time my anticipation for seeing films and forecasting films of which I expect will be a worthy option, is in most...
View ArticleThe Film’s Totally Booked Out!
A journey from INFINITE JEST to THE END OF THE TOUR. How imperative is it to read the book should you discover the film you intend to see has derived from one? Exactly much effort does one have to go...
View ArticleSon of a Wicked Witch
Why witches don’t scare any more. I recently saw Robert Eggers 1630s New England gothic horror film The Witch. It’s the stuff of genuine nightmares, a sure-(camp)fire fright-fest in an age of black...
View ArticleCinema Bound
Why we don’t walk out of the cinema anymore. I recently read a book of compiled letters written by Groucho Marx, a well-worn, yellow paged gem that’s no doubt out of print which I happened upon in a...
View ArticleHe-man’s Trash is an Old Man’s Treasure
Can we leave a love of schlock to rest or do we take it to our grave? I can’t help but wonder how my taste in films will evolve or what general stance I’ll take in say, thirty to forty years...
View ArticleIt’s Time To Get Things Started!
MUPPETS: A child’s gateway to the cinema. It was finally happening! My seven month old daughter and I were having our first moment of mutual bonding over a slice of pop-culture. It was an encounter...
View ArticleOzzy. Now a Major Motion Picture!
Why the Prince of darkness could rule the big screen! It bothers me that the legendary tales of excess and debauchery imparted upon us by those spandex clad, hair-spray savvy rock stars of the ‘80s...
View ArticleKANE IN FURS
The bittersweet maintenance of a Top 5 movie list. You know that definitive, prized and trusty Top 5 movie list that no one ever asks you to repeat but is nevertheless stored in the recesses of your...
View ArticleTHE PSYCHO WHO STOLE HALLOWEEN
How a film director’s goal in the late 70s simultaneously ruined two cherished horror movies. Yeah that’s right, two pioneering movies of the horror genre were ruined for me this year and I’m still...
View Article12 (minus eleven) Angry Men
The blurred lines between an actual courtroom VS. Hollywood drama. Before even stepping foot into a courtroom one thing was for sure, since fate had beckoned in the form of a letter in the mail that...
View ArticleYou Talkin’ To My Little Friend?
In the very premature wake of Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, one would be correct in assuming that this movie will hands down be the greatest thing known to man and will earn a place in the Hollywood...
View ArticleLa La Luna
I still have far too many questions concerning the televised Best Picture mishap at the 89th Academy Awards, the answers of which refuse to present themselves in the form of ’genuine mistake’. The two...
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