This review is written by Geoff. * * * Many viewers will probably leave with their stomach churned after watching the film Snowtown for it’s dark and graphic portrayals of murder, pedophilia and rape. All showcased in one of this years best Australian films. First time director Justin Kurzel delves viewers into a [...]
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ALARMING TRENDS #1: Do you have to be photogenic to be an Australian film director?
Note: this article is not meant to be taken entirely seriously. It’s party written and organised for some comedic value. Also apologies to Peter Jackson, who I highly respect. Welcome to ALARMING TRENDS, where every week or so we will look at what I think to be an alarming trend in Australian Cinema. I do [...]
‘THE LOVED ONES’ movie review: Misogyny as entertainment?
UPDATE: I have made a couple of errors in the review. I attributed the song ‘Not Pretty Enough’ to Missy Higgins instead of Kasey Chambers; based on the comments I have been receiving over this, can I just make it clear that I have no problems with the song, only how it was used. I [...]
BLOG: ‘FRAME BY FRAME: The Life Of A Cinema Projectionist.’ #4
A Frame-By-Frame Look at the Life of a Cinema Projectionist Chapter 4: “Group Bookings” Written and lived by Sean Lander: A few years ago, before I moved to the city, I didn’t know that there was such a thing as bookings for a cinema. I didn’t know that people could book cinemas out and watch [...]
BLOG: ‘FRAME BY FRAME: The Life Of A Cinema Projectionist.’ #3
Written and lived by Sean Lander. Chapter 3: “…Can I Have An Exception For That…” “Come in projection!”, “Go Ahead?”, “Cinema one’s screen just went black!” ,”Are you fu*king kidding me!!!”. That is how it happens; every time something goes wrong in a cinema; those five little words are the most used words for us [...]
BLOG: ‘FRAME BY FRAME: The Life Of A Cinema Projectionist.’ #2
Chapter 2: Setting up the Candy Bar. When I first started out in cinema, I was working between projection and floor. Floor are the people who clean the cinemas’ between sessions. The more I worked, I started to also do box office and candy bar shifts. These shifts were the shifts that I dreaded. I’m [...]
BLOG: ‘FRAME BY FRAME: The Life Of A Cinema Projectionist.’ #1
Here is a new weekly blog for www.damngoodcup.com, a look into the life of a sydney projectionist. Written by Sean Lander: A Frame-by-Frame Look at the Life of a Cinema Projectionist Chapter 1: The Widescreen Its now coming up on five years since i started working as a projectionist. Its funny to think in that [...]
Tomorrow, When The War Began review.
NOTE TO READERS: I did not see the finished version. So if you are one of those people that isn’t interested in hearing about an unfinished film, I would avoid this review. I was lucky enough to attend a test screening of Stuart Beattie’s upcoming epic Australian movie Tomorrow When The War Began based on [...]
Star Trek Into Darkness Review
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