After the wonderful nostalgic fantasy Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen’s European tour hits a major pothole with the uninspired To Rome with love. This frothy, feather-light film features mostly unsympathetic characters in the midst of mild romantic dilemmas that are rarely interesting or funny. The film has four main story threads all of which examine the strange corrupting lure of
Read moreOliver Stone’s latest film Savages follows in the tradition of Scarface and Blow by using the drug industry as a metaphor for America’s aspirational culture. Unfortunately this film has neither the originality nor the charismatic central characters of those films. Taylor kitsch and Aaron Johnson play two low profile but highly successful California marijuana dealers who live in an unusual
Read moreBUILT FOR SPEED, PLAYLIST, 2nd NOVEMBER 2012 1. REDD KROSS – Stay away from downtown. 2. UNIDA – Thorn. 3. THE STROKES – Hard to explain. 4. FLAMING LIPS – Race for the prize 5. GAS HUFFER – Crooked bird. 6. THE POSIES – Your big mouth. 7. JELLYFISH – Baby’s coming back. 8. THE DESCENDENTS – Silly girl 9.
Read moreAfter our excursion into hip-hop last week we’re back to more guitar based music with indie classics new and old including the likes of Red Kross, Pond and Unida. We also focus on some fine Aussie artists such as Paul Kelly. On the movie front we’ll be taking a look at Woody Allen’s latest To Rome With Love and the
Read moreSafety Not Guaranteed is a quirky mix of indie rom-com and sci-if that inhabits a similar universe to Napoleon Dynamite. The film has one of the more unusual premises in cinema this year as Seattle Magazine intern Darius (Aubrey Plaza), sleazy reporter Jeff (Jake Johnson) and shy intern Arnau (Karan Soni) investigate a strange guy named Kenneth (Mark Duplass) who
Read moreFor those who grew up in the 1970’s but were too young to have first-hand recollection of the Vietnam war, the Iran hostage crisis that began in 1979 was the first time we had witnessed America have its nose bloodied. The events at the US embassy, where Iranian revolutionaries took 52 embassy staff hostage, occupied the news for over a
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