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From Jiro to Hero

Batman is a crime-fighting comic book super hero created by Bob Kane that has captured the imagination of readers and has been a part of popular culture for over seventy years.  While the Dark Knight has a long and illustrious history in print, he also has a pretty solid legacy in film also. Tim Burton’s Batman, released in 1989, was ...

An equal opportunities offender

Considering the original Scream single-handedly revived the horror genre in Hollywood fifteen years ago, its somewhat ironic and perhaps fitting that the franchise has now mimmicked the sequel fatigue of the cult classic films it took influence from. Scream 4 is a really unremarkable horror film.  There is nothing special about it.  It’s predecessors and dozens of contemporary horror films ...

Pretty fly for a white guy

50/50 is a semi-autobiographical film written by a guy named Will Reiser who was diagnosed with cancer in his twenties.  The film walks a tightrope – it is a comedy about cancer.  Fortunately, it is a tactful and good-natured film and you suspect that a lot of the film’s observational humour about how relatives and friends cope with the Big ...

There are pretty much only two Australian films.  Just two.  There are really dark morbid films about death and misery (Snowtown, Animal Kingdom, Lantana, Wolf Creek) and there are Aussie battler movies about unlikely underdogs who overcome the odds or stick it to The Man (The Castle, Australia, Crackerjack, The Dish). I mentioned before in the Queensland election blog that ...

This film should swap titles with Sex and the City