State Of Play: A thriller with a message for our media
August 18, 2009
The troubled future of US newspapers has been a topic of late in the international press but State Of Play, which has corporate pressures on the industry as a central theme, evokes the often forgotten romance of newspapers and that thrilling moment of uncovering a scoop.
If anything, I found it inspiring and a telling signal for a fickle media to tell real stories rather than make bogans famous. [Read more]
Tulpan: A moving, gentle and funny glimpse of life
April 30, 2009
Talk about broadening your horizons.
Kazakhstani film Tulpan, in Kazakhand Russian with English subtitles, may not be of the fantasy or adventure genre but you’re nonetheless transported to another world.
A dry, isolated world in southern Kazakhstan known as the “Hunger Steppe”, which is inhabited by few shepherds braving the harsh weather in their makeshift yurts. [Read more]
He’s Just Not That Into You: Sorry, just not into this movie
March 4, 2009
Point taken. If a guy doesn’t call or doesn’t propose within a set period of time, He’s Just Not That Into You.
But while the self-improvement book of the same name, penned by former Sex & The City writers Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo, drives women to feel empowered, the film fails to do so.
Perhaps it’s in the pigeon-holing of women as desperate, clingy and inherently stupid that makes this deceptive chick flick disappointing. [Read more]
Ian Luff
Bernard Bratusa
Jeff McGill