Its only when looking back and trying to narrow down a shortlist to ten films did I realise that 2009 has been a pretty awesome year at the cinema.  There have been plenty of films that I enjoyed and many more supposedly great ones that I have yet to get around to watching. So I’ll kick things off with an ...

I have to say, I’m a bit mystified by the 750,000-strong Facebook group encouraging people to buy Rage Against The Machine’s Killing In The Name so it can be the UK Christmas #1 single.  The page encourages people to do so to ‘prevent another X-Factor artist from being #1 for Christmas’. Maybe I’m over-thinking it but I seriously don’t get ...

I’ve been clearing out the backlog of video games from this year’s fourth quarter.  I’ve recently finished New Super Mario Bros Wii, DJ Hero and had a couple of playthroughs of the latest Beatles Rockband DLC (Rubber Soul, baby).  We’ve been spoilt with the number of quality games this year however and there was still another couple of games on ...

After getting home from work on Tuesday I was browsing a video game messageboard thread about French Laundry, looking at some high res photos of their nine course degustation.  It was around this time that Jen got home, looked over my shoulder and decided she felt like going out to dinner.  I called around and managed to get an impromptu ...

It’s been a pretty hectic week.  On the weekend there was the Christmas work party at Iceworks.  It was a chance to celebrate the end of the year with my old work team. Then I had a day to recover from a rather brutal hangover before heading down to Melbourne to give a 2010 presentation to my new work colleagues.  ...

I woke up this morning to check out the groups drawn for the World Cup in South Africa next year.  I got three teams I’m rooting for: Japan, New Zealand and Australia.  Here’s a quick breakdown of how we went. I was a bit disappointed about this grouping really.  I was hoping we would get Italy so we could crush ...

So our Summer Of Cricket started this week with the Windies test series kicking off at The Gabba.  Its actually a bit of a disappointing line up this year.  The Windies are pretty shit so the series isn’t really going to be much of a contest and then after this, we get no international games in Brisbane for the whole ...

Although I’m now two weeks into a new job, I can happily report that I’m still included in the monthly wining and dining nights that my former manager and colleagues would catch up for.  We take turns picking out a new restaurant to try and make a night of it.  This time, on my suggestion, we went with Phillip Johnson’s ...

Four years ago, Rian Johnson debuted with the excellent modern day highschool noir film Brick.  Now he returns with The Brothers Bloom, where once again he handles both the writing and directing duties. The Brothers Bloom is about two brothers where, strangely, only one of them is called Bloom.  The other guy is called Stephen.  Unless their names are Bloom ...

During a recent stopover in Sydney, myself and some guys from work were feeling a hankering for Japanese food and Masuya is literally one of the first options that turn up in Google if you search ‘Japanese restaurant Sydney’. We booked and went in with no real expectations of the service or quality.  Turns out, we also really underestimated the ...