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Dean Spanley… What the?

By Cara Tobin • Mar 9th, 2009 • Category: Flicks

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 [...]



Revolutionary Road (2008)

By Cara Tobin • Jan 30th, 2009 • Category: Flicks

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 [...]



The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

By Cara Tobin • Jan 19th, 2009 • Category: Flicks

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 [...]



Australia (2008) - Stand In Ovation

By Cara Tobin • Dec 8th, 2008 • Category: Features, Flicks

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 [...]



Quantum Of Solace (2008) - James Bland 007

By Cara Tobin • Nov 30th, 2008 • Category: Features, Flicks

“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 [...]



Quantum Of Solace Bad Guy

By Cara Tobin • Nov 24th, 2008 • Category: Flicks

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 After Reading (2008)

By Cara Tobin • Nov 7th, 2008 • Category: Features, Flicks

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 [...]



The Duchess (2008)

By Cara Tobin • Oct 17th, 2008 • Category: Flicks

Feathers, flirting and flouncing make for an enjoyable period piece with a surprising amount of funny one-liners. Just beware; your lips may become more pronounced than usual as you watch this film…

I fear that Derek Zoolander’s days as numero uno Blue Steel pouter may be numbered if Keira Knightley and her jaw-jutting purse have anything [...]