John August coins a term for those beautiful mock posters for existing films: "unsheets" By stripping away the credit blocks and pithy taglines, unsheets distill films down to their essence…
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Jon Hamm ("Mad Men") describes the life of a not-very-successful Hollywood actor in The Guardian: And there's this hideous thing they make you do when you go up for a…
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As the operator and principal of a newly-birthed freelance business, I've been thinking a lot about entrepreneurship and this quote from bookseller and author Tim Waterstone helps: "You know, as…
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As the great 80s action heroes passed their respective peaks and drifted down the other side towards irrelevancy (or ego-centric foolishness) those of us that cared about these things were…
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With the big budget Hollywood remake already in production (starring Rusty Crowe), Anything for Her looked like it might have had some entertainment potential but I’m sad to report that…
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This morning I sloped up to Radio New Zealand to review Richard Boock's new biography of Bert Sutcliffe: "The Last Everyday Hero". Kathryn's a cricket fan so, even though she…
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