For my friend Bill Ryan's blog, The Kind of Face You Hate, I made a foray into the literary critical essay with a look at problem child H.P. Lovecraft and…
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Kailey is on holiday and Simon is sick so Dan is joined by Sarah Watt from the Sunday Star-Times to discuss Naomi Watts in Diana, Danny Trejo as Machete in…
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"Ooops." Bond loses one of his more charming conquests. Tends to happen. Sean Connery and Shirley Eaton (or her double) in Goldfinger, 1964. "He's not very good at his job,…
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Veronica Lake, the ultimate special effect, in I Married A Witch, René Clair, 1944. The insouciant cheekiness of this comedy/fantasy's central conceit allowed the movie to get away with the…
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Chewitel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender in 12 Years A Slave. The dialogue they exchange in the scene pictured is taken very nearly verbatim from the source material. Steve McQueen's 12…
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Sandra Bullock and George Clooney are lost in space in Alfonso Cuarón's Gravity while Hugh Laurie teaches the kids of Bougainville about Charles Dickens in Andrew Adamson's Mr. Pip.
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