Category Archive: FILM
Good Night, and Good Luck.
'How do we gas this up?" "We could get Dianne Reeves to sing a few tunes..."
(Dir. George Clooney) (2005) Senator Joseph McCarthy (1908 – 1957) knew he was on a winner, in the early 1950s. There was a cold war on. There were active attempts to infiltrate American government and security services by Soviet agents and fifth columnists. The only thing is, the junior Senator from Wisconsin couldn’t prove any of it, but he carried on as if he could, and would. A real problem was therefore lost in the fog of McCarthy’s bombast, bluster, dreamed-up lists of traitors, Senatorial kangaroo courts, and perversion of natural justice and the Constitution. Eventually, he was ‘censured’ (or…
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Why Do These Stars’ Stylists Hate Them?
It must be a vicious mixture of misogyny, personal loathing, resentment and superb powers of persuasion. Nothing else can explain how these otherwise attractive women came to appear at the 2016 Golden Globe Awards looking like this.
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The Golden Globe spider predicts...weird self-aggrandisement and bad dresses
QUESTION 1 How did Julianne Moore, who excels in dag…. …get it so right? QUESTION 2 How many canaries died to dress Jennifer Lopez? ..and does Angelina want her leg back? Although those shoes are worth showing off. QUESTION 3. Why does Sylvester Stallone look so much like Dean Martin these days? Answers awaited!
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(Written & Dir. by Brendan Cowell) (2015) One gets the strong feeling that the writer and director thought of the name “Ruben Guthrie” first and couldn’t or wouldn’t let it go. The eponymous main character (played well by Patrick Brammall) is called by his full name more often than not in the short, slight 93 minutes of this first, clearly somewhat autobiographical, feature by Cowell. At first Ruben Guthrie suffers badly from the same problem as does Fury Road – male protagonist has model girlfriend. All she has to offer is looks. Insulting and annoying to this audience anyway. Naturally…
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