Dean Spanley will make the producers of Botox an absolute fortune; those who see it will have a crinkled brow throughout while trying to understand what the hell it is actually about…
An excellent form of compensation for newly-acquired wrinkles is watching the magic between the stellar cast. Sam Neill, Peter O’Toole, Jeremy Northam and Bryan [...]
While the debate about ‘street art’ versus ‘graffiti’ continues to rage on in modern society, some savvy street-art lovers with an entrepreneurial spirit have decided to promote certain artists rather than castigate. One such purveyor of fine street art is Jason Kinsella, co-director of Little Art Book (LAB). Soon to be launched in Australia, this [...]
Reunited after 11 years, Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio remind us why they made history together in Titanic…
Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes’s latest film Revolutionary Road confronts and challenges our preconditioned sensibilities and notions of relationships, social status and personal dreams. It strips your ideals and beliefs to their core and makes you question your life’s [...]
More than just a beautiful face, Brad Pitt proves why he is still one of the biggest draw cards in Hollywood…
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a movie that will warm the cockles of your heart as well as showcase Pitt’s versatility as an actor. Based on a short story of the same name [...]
Where do grown-ups go if they love playing with toys but believe they will be doomed to a life of raised eyebrows and the sad shaking of heads if they publicly display their wares? Have no fear; Thunderdog Studios have your toy-loving derriere covered.
ThunderMutts, ZuluQueen, BillyBananas and KidRobot figurines will look very hip and cute [...]
This is ‘Australia’…
The intricacies involved in making a film, especially one as large scale and logistically demanding as Baz Luhrmann’s newest film ‘Australia’, are largely lost on most of us. As consumers we demand entertainment in its slick, finished form. The process of how it came to be may flicker across our consciousness momentarily but [...]
“Bland…James Bland” should be the catch cry in the 22nd film in the Bond franchise. Like a salad without dressing there is nothing too tempting about Bond’s latest adventures…
With a lot of hype and out-of-this-world expectation Quantum of Solace arrived in cinemas with a bang but delivers with a limp. The latest Bond installment falls [...]
From banking to Bond in just four years, Simon Kassianides is one of the new bad boys on the 007 block. You’d do well to keep him in your sights….
Yusef, as described by his off-screen alter ego, Simon Kassianides, is “an agent for Quantum, the organisation that Bond learns more about in this film. His [...]
Burn Baby Burn
The world of spies, plastic surgery and internet dating collide in a fast-paced tumble-set in the intelligence capital of the world, Washington D.C, and Big Brothers Coen are watching…
Joel and Ethan Coen, known colloquially as The Coen Brothers, have been creating left of Hollywood cinema for over 20 years. Jacks of [...]
Mosey on down (or up or across) to Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art to check out artworks of great intent, including some that may make you twitter with excitement, blush or even gush…
There are plenty of fabulous things to tickle your inner creativity and quell your cultural conscience at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) [...]
