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Thoughts on a ground-breaking Oscars ceremony (82nd Academy Awards)

It used to be that I’d have to endure a media blockout through an entire Monday so I could enjoy the Oscars telecast. As it happens live on a Sunday night in the States, it’s actually around 10AM Monday morning in Australia, and in the past the TV network screening the event wouldn’t do so...

Posted by Captain Howdy on Feb 2nd, 2010 in Featured, Reel Reviews | Comments

IT’S COMPLICATED is anything but...

Don’t let the title of this romantic comedy scare you, It’s Complicated is anything but. If you are to be scared of anything, I’d recommend caution for the (once again) unnecessary length...

Posted by froley on Jan 30th, 2010 in Featured, Reel Reviews, Reel Thoughts | Comments

THE ROAD is long, hard, leads nowhere...

As if Avatar’s Box Office haul wasn’t evidence enough, here we have another fine specimen to file under the already expansive exhibition ”Reasons People Are Shit.” But...

Posted by froley on Jan 30th, 2010 in Reel Reviews, Reel Thoughts | Comments

APOCALYPTO review: brutal, bloody and beautiful...

Mel Gibson used to be in Australian movies. Then he started doing big American action movies. He kept doing that for a little while, and then suddenly decided to try his hand at directing, finding success...

Posted by Captain Howdy on Jan 27th, 2010 in Featured, Reel Thoughts | Comments

Justifying AVATAR as the highest grossing film of all time...

It should come as no surprise to learn that James Cameron’s epic 3D sci-fi/fantasy film Avatar– which apparently you all went to see– has surpassed Titanic’s $1.8 billion worldwide...

Posted by Captain Howdy on Jan 26th, 2010 in Featured, Reel Reviews, Reel Thoughts | Comments

Our Aussie Film Favourites...

G’day! It’s January 26 Down Under, the day the entire nation takes a Summer day off work to commemorate the arrival of the First Fleet at Sydney Cove in 1788… and drink beer. Australia...

Posted by froley on Jan 26th, 2010 in Reel Reviews | Comments

GALLIPOLI review: Remember where you’re from...

War is a stupid, ugly thing, entirely pointless in every way, which is why war films are so compelling. All the death occurring on screen is so unnecessary, it renders the war film a deep sense of tragedy,...

Posted by Captain Howdy on Jan 26th, 2010 in Reel Reviews | Comments

The insane genius of MAD MAX...

The title Mad Max is more fitting for the 1979 Australian cult classic than you might realise. George Miller assembled a seemingly mad team of ambitious filmmakers to endure twelve weeks of production in...

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