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We Ran a Few Questions by David Liebe Hart, Puppeteer and Musician of Tim & Eric Fame David Liebe Hart is a name that would be long familiar to alternative comedy cultists and those with a particular set of interests. With a career spanning forty years, Liebe Hart is renowned for his many talents and idiosyncratic displays …
Featuring Spielberg at His Most Affectionate, A Classic Modern Musical and A Coming of Age Story for All Time Following on from Part 1 of our belated but still totally relevant list of the best films that came out last year, here’s Part 2 in all its cinematic glory. Sidenote: as we were particularly thrilled …
Conflict, Confusion and Connection in Somersault In the same way that Miley Cyrus wears scrunchies and pigtails with thigh-high latex, Somersault perfectly captures that same contradiction between sexuality and juvenility. Heidi (Abbie Cornish) makes a mistake by “fooling around” with her mother’s boyfriend, in her fumbling search for affection and adulthood. When she’s sprung, the …
Featuring An Animated Treasure, A German Dramedy and An Alien Invasion Film Unlike Any Other The best thing about being a movie fan living in Australia is that – with the considerable interval between North American releases and subsequent availability in the southern hemisphere – you’re always behind the curve, so you’ll never find yourself …
Jordan Peele’s Foray Into Horror Leans on the Humour Sparingly While Indulging in its Social Commentary Get Out is not a subtle film. Every conversation throughout the movie is not so much underpinned by racial tension as it is openly inviting discomfort at how clumsily people (and, most specifically, white Americans) try to talk …
Bitches Gonna Bitch, Stitches Gonna Stitch Taking “small town hole” status to new extremes is Dungatar, the childhood home of Myrtle Dunnage (Kate Winslet). Within the first ten seconds of The Dressmaker the viewer understands that she had left, but is now returned, and that a ripple of memories lie unsettled, ready to be …
When You Give Advice That Turns Out to Be Shitty and They Come to Get Payback If a good thriller makes you just as excited as it makes you bite off your fingernails, then you’ll love Money Monster. The key facts you need to know? Live television. Narcissistic, rich presenter. Gunman. Hostage situation. Bombs. …
Roller Derby and Bruises the Size of Your Face I love any movie with an underdog and a hidden talent. Bliss (Ellen Page) certainly checks both of these boxes in the delightfully entertaining Whip It, directed by Drew Barrymore. Stifled by a small-town life where roads lead to dead-ends, Bliss and best friend Pash (Alia …