The last time I blogged about the Reds, it was Round 16 of the competition where they rather unexpectedly lost to the unfancied Brumbies.  Since then, the team have bounced back and won two away games against the Force and the Chiefs to secure the top spot in the competition and make their first finals appearance in a decade.  It ...

Pixar recently released a teaser trailer for their new film Brave which is due out in 2012.  It will be their first fairytale and also their first film with a female protagonist.  Somewhat controversially, it was also due to be their first film with a female director but Brenda Chapman has since left the project. What we do know is ...

Ladyfriends

DISTILLERY Aberlour TYPE Blended Malt ALCOHOL 60% REGION Speyside COLOR Dark amber NOSE Scorches your nose hairs, like inhaling industrial-strength mints. PALATE Incredibly potent bite.  I think I can sort of taste a hint of vanilla for a split second and then the alcohol takes over.  Good lord. FINISH A fire going down your throat and into your belly. SCORE ...

GROUP A: Germany, Canada, Nigeria, France GROUP B: Japan, New Zealand, Mexico, England GROUP C: US, N Korea, Colombia, Sweden GROUP D: Brazil, Australia, Norway, Equatorial Guinea The FIFA Women’s World Cup kicked off in Germany a few days ago.  We’re only a night away from the Matildas kicking off their campaign against Brazil (at 2 in the morning!). I’m ...

Adelaide United announced today that star midfielder Marcos Flores would be leaving the club.  Flores made a huge impact in his single season at AUFC, deservedly winning the Johnny Warren Player of the Year award.  In its infancy, the A-League sure had its share of shitty import players that were overpaid and either put in a half-arsed effort or weren’t ...

This was a pretty neat piece of footballing memorabilia that my mate Rich owns.  It is a mint condition ticket from the FIFA World Cup ’66 in England.

I don’t know about you but when I eat out for breakfast, I love nothing better than a perfectly cooked eggs benedict.  With that in mind, I was very happy to discover Spoon Deli in Fortitude Valley.  Just look at this bad boy.  It looked amazing and tasted even better.  For my money one of the best breakfasts you can ...

Hanna is an interesting new direction for director Joe Wright who is best known for making the period dramas Pride & Prejudice and Atonement.  Unlike those films, Hanna is a contemporary action film that moves at the same accelerated pace as that of its young heroine. Hanna lives in a remote snowy woodland location with her father Erik who rigorously ...

You can count me amongst the hoards of admirers of Idris Elba’s performance in the The Wire as crime lord Stringer Bell who found his portrayal of a Baltimore drug dealer so convincing that I had no idea he was actually British. It wasn’t until someone put me onto the BBC crime drama Luther that I got to see him ...