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Ocean’s Eleven (2001) dir. Steven Soderbergh “The house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes, the house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big, and then you take the house.” For more than seventy years all Las Vegas has done is
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CATS is a musical that needs no introduction. Considered the first megamusical, it paved the way for shows from Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera to Hamilton and Wicked, on top of being a massive commercial success in its own right. It’s been produced all over the
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I know it’s unorthodox to review two films with the same star in such a short space of time, but after my review of Total Eclipse last week, I simply couldn’t help it. I’ve been kept awake at night by the thought that I deceived you, dear
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If you read the first film review I ever wrote for the Tert, you’d know I spent an inordinate amount of my teenage years in love with River Phoenix. If you’re reading this one, you’ll learn that my preteen years were almost identical to the later ones,
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“The Los Angeles Times reported that 63% of American families are considered dysfunctional. My god, that means we’re the majority… WE’RE NORMAL!” We all have a favourite stand-up special. Maybe a top 3. If not a top 3, maybe a favourite comedian. Maybe a top 3 of comedians.
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“We all see what we want to see. Coffey looks and he sees Russians. He sees hate and fear. You have to look with better eyes than that.” Stand on a shoreline on a clear night and gaze toward the horizon. Somewhere out there, just beyond your view, is the
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Keeping true to the commitment to watching Australian movies that I mentioned in my last review, one of my most recent watches was Da Kath & Kim Code, the 2005 telemovie adaptation of the cult classic Australian TV show Kath & Kim. If you’re at all familiar with Kath
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'Rocky VI' dir. Aki Kaurismaki (1986) - Reviewed by Mason Horsley The 1980s were an amazing decade for cinema. Within those 10 years, filmmakers gave us some of the most defining pieces of the art form. ‘The Shining’, ‘Blade Runner’, ‘Back To The Future’, ‘Akira’, even one of
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Once in a while, I do a YouTube binge on a particular figure. I find it happens spontaneously; one night I just feel like delving into an artist’s work and sometimes it won’t even matter whether I’m a fan (that’s certainly the case for Andy Dick)
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One of my favourite niches of film is unconventional romance. Not the 20-a-year fairytale Hollywood propaganda filmmaking that inspires you to re-download Tinder, Bumble and Hinge all at the same time. The odd, uncanny valley, just bordering on your personal limits, unconventional romantic film. You can keep your ‘Love Actually’
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Five years ago – two, even – I would have loved Pump Up The Volume. I can picture it almost too clearly – 18 year old Emma, crouched at the video player to fast-forward through the 90s ads on the home-recorded VHS tape her aunt lent her, eyes fixed on the screen so
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The staging and costuming of Lost Words is a true delight. It’s as if Esme and her friends have sprung directly from the page into the real world. Each setting is richly crafted, making use of the Scriptorium’s pigeonholes as shelves, windows, doors, letter boxes, and more.