“I don’t think of bodily fluids when I hear the word moist. I tend to think of either cake, which I prefer moist, or my potted ferns, which like to be kept in moist bedding.”
I tuned in halfway through an interesting discussion on ABC Radio recently. It was about attitudes to AI, […]
“I love those ads produced by Meat and Livestock Australia every year that feature Sam Kekovich urging us to get stuck into some good old Aussie lamb.”
“I wondered how many times you could get a laugh from a prim and proper character suddenly dropping the f-bomb. For me the novelty wore off very quickly,, and the main pleasure I got out of it was from doing that thing: what’s he/she been in?”
Anatomy of a Fall is both a gripping courtroom drama and an absorbing psychological one, which manages to hold our interest for all of its 150 minutes. It deservedly won the Palme d’Or at Cannes last year, and the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay at the recent Academy Awards.
American Fiction is a terrific satire on academia, literary fashion, racial identity politics and the cult of celebrity.
“My quibble with Bradley Cooper’s work is that Maestro is more a showcase of his ability to do a good Leonard Bernstein impression than it is a serious biopic about this towering figure of 20th century music.”
I’m not sure if it beats the Hong Kong typhoon or the Caribbean cruise ship near ban, but […]
“Kingsley Ben Adir…absolutely nails Marley’s charisma, his physical gestures, his stage moves and of course that charming accent for which I am a total sucker.”
‘I have a low tolerance for narrative cliché, but the storyline of The Holdovers is not as predictable as it sounds. I also have low tolerance for sentimentality and mawkishness, but The Holdovers manages – only just – to push itself up to that threshold without toppling over it.’