Love Love Love Ab Fab … Mostly because Eddie and Patsy got me through the worst of adolescence in suburban hell in deepest darkest moistest Brisbane or comme l’appel des étrangers de la ville – Brisvegas. Ab Fab Movie is almost here ~ only waiting until 4 August (I think) at the Cameo. Edina Monsoon…
Man! Chick humour is what is needed in High Winter, like now. We’ve past the Solstice, apparently. Sun should be on the way back, not that you’d know it. We are all in need of a dose of sunshine and if this cannot be had in the waning months of a Melbourne Winter, let us…
I have had the words of “The Ballad of Lucy Jordan” running through my mind for days. It could be the Unconscious, the Dreamtime speaking to me about any number of things but it got me thinking about that great Road Trip Chick Flick nodding to the dream of empowerment while balancing the terror and…
Ever worked in a restaurant? A Kitchen? Clangers and I went to see – CHEF – on the weekend, and it was – wonderful. So Jon Favreau plays Carl Casper, a talented Chef, who has traded the edgey-ness of his creative vision, his Authentic Self and Life, for security and a lot of dull! One…
Do we remember those days of titanic battles power battles with parents who ‘don’t understand’? Of romantic longings? Of yearnings what ‘cannot be’? Of dreaming – about the future? And longing for the day we are ‘free’? ‘The Breakfast Club’ was the movie that introduced me to the angst and magic of that excruciating in…
If you are anything like the little child we once – all were, curiosity about the mysteries of life – remains ticking away somewhere in the back of your mind – wondering. I have something – just for you who long to bungey jump down Rabbit Holes, to knock back the worrying bottle marked “Drink…
Before Midnight is the third installment in the story of Celine and Jessie, who meet in their early twenties on a train going from Eastern Europe through Vienna towards Paris where Celine lives. The first film was called Before Sunrise and it depicted a ‘real time’ conversation between two people who had just met. They…
I am apprehensive about writing this. I sense I am crossing a boundary, we do still have taboos though they are painted on with invisible ink. They exist because – the unconscious mind exists – most of us do not command a 360 degree view and so, there is a line that separates the things…
The Great Gatsby is possibly the greatest love story ever told and Baz Lurhmann has rendered this telling truly immortal with his usual optical sumptuous feast. The genius of F. Scott Fitzgerald channels the existential torment contemporary to the post WWI world further precipitated by his wife Zelda’s unrealized artistic talent and their corresponding unrealised…
Who doesn’t dig Dr. Seuss? Anyone? So, the Lorax is right up my alley, so to speak – the right amount of grumpy, singing fish, facial hair and plastic flowers, set in a world where things are no longer grown – they are produced. The Lorax is a moustached nature spirit who is all about…
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