2 days ago by Jake

Aversion of this review appeared in The Age ,November 26, 2011. Theclassic films of the neo-realistic movement were products of a Europetraumatised by the Second World War, often centred on childrenwandering through the ruins of a world beyond their control orunderstanding. It's a cinematic traditio ...

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2 days ago by Jake

Aversion of this review appeared in The Age ,November 24, 2011. Everwondered how Santa delivers millions of presents in one night?According to this lavishly computer-animated 3D fantasy, you canforget the magic sleigh and the flying reindeer. Nowadays, the wholething is done by spaceship in a milita ...

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2 days ago by Jake

Aversion of this review appeared in The Age ,November 24, 2011. Thisis the nuttiest Hollywood fantasy in a long while – but unlike mostof its kind, it does attain a certain epic grandeur. The credit goesto director Tarsem Singh, a music video whiz who bills himself assimply “Tarsem”, and who belongs ...

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3 days ago by Jake

Aversion of this article appeared in TheAge ,November 19, 2011. Itwas the bonfire to end all bonfires. When the mega-blockbuster GoneWith The Wind (1939) started production, one of the first scenesto be shot was the burning of Atlanta – and the producer, David O.Selznick, went in search of material ...

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3 days ago by Jake

Aversion of this review appeared in TheAge ,November 19, 2011. Alongwith Michel Gondry, Miranda July may have the most cunninglyfaux-naif sensibility in modern movies. Whether you find hercaptivating or appalling, there's no denying she represents asignificant 21st-century type. Youcould view her as ...

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3 days ago by Jake

Aversion of this review appeared in TheAge ,November 17, 2011. Though The Orator is billed as the first ever Samoan feature film, itswriter-director, Tusi Tamasese, has lived in New Zealand his wholeadult life. Perhaps that's why he's chosen a hero who's an insiderand outsider at the same time. Asa ...

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3 days ago by Jake

Aversion of this review appeared in TheAge ,November 17, 2012. Thisdramatised true story follows the template for inspirational filmsabout the power of learning, except that here it's the student,rather than the teacher, who provides most of the inspiration. TheKenyan TV journalist Oliver Litondo st ...

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3 days ago by Adam Ford

Last week the Age knocked back a couple of my poems: “Response”, a perhaps-a-little-obvious poem about artistic responses to terrorism, and “Second Comes Right After First”, the poem I wrote (but didn’t perform) for the Victorian final of the 2011 Australian Poetry Slam. Their rejection was simple, ...

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3 days ago by Publisher

‘Encouraging teens to wait until they feel ‘ready’ for sex, is not to promote oppression. It is to promote empowerment’ By Dr Emma Rush Clueless, to say the least. Michelle Griffin’s claim (‘Why teens should read raunchy novels and straight-up smut’, 1 February) that “teens should read more porn”, n ...

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