The best way I can think of to sum up Jobs, the hastily-prepared not-quite adaptation of Walter Isaacson's hastily-published biography of the Apple co-founder, is that its subject would have…
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OK, so here’s how this is supposed to work. I watch a whole lot of films, give you a hopefully spoiler-free rundown of what they’re about, offer you my impressions…
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Half way through Winter’s Bone I found myself thinking, “So, this is what the Western has become?” The best Westerns are about finding or sustaining a moral path though a…
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So, it’s the school holidays and the nippers are bouncing off the walls. You’re not allowed to just leave them in the car while you play the pokies anymore so…
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Oh, what kind of year is 2008 that has two Coen Brothers films within it? In February I was swooning over No Country for Old Men and now, just a…
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Let's get the unpleasantness out of the way first: watching The Farrelly Brothers' ugly remake of Neil Simon's The Heartbreak Kid was a trial beyond all human endurance. After about…
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