At over 190 centimetres tall with broad shoulders and a six-pack to match, you might think that 19 year-old actor Liam Hemsworth is a bit of a handful. But according to the man himself, he’s calmed down a lot. “When I was a little kid I was a devil,” he says with his deep booming […]
I was surprised to read about a recent spate of Cougar Conventions across the country, at which the younger men in attendance (the “cubs”) voted for their favourite older women. As for the Cougars themselves, they were being encouraged to overcome their irrational bias against younger men, who are apparently better because they have more […]
When he was just eight years old, Jean-Pierre Jeunet – director of Amelie (2001), Alien: Resurrection (1997) and Delicatessen (1991) - made a small theatre from cardboard. He painted it, built sets and puppet characters, costumes and props and used his parents’ bedside lamps for lighting. For the boy who was an only child until […]
Like a road-movie with a flat tire, this is a dull 1950’s journey along Route 66 in the company of a young man, his mother and brother, searching for….well, not much. And they find it – everywhere. Loosely based on the childhood of actor George Hamilton, it’s an overwritten and witless comedy, long on trivial […]
You’ve heard those urban legend horror stories about unsuspecting folk who get picked up in bars and wake up the next morning in a bath full of ice with their kidneys removed? I am terrified something similar might have happened to me – I think I may have had a humour by-pass without realising it. […]
I have long been an admirer of director Lasse Hallstrom, a composed and confident filmmaker who, despite making the ABBA music videos back in the 1970s, has never been seduced by the quick cut or the gritty handheld look. His feature films – from My Life As A Dog and Who’s Eating Gilbert Grape to […]
You’ve heard those urban legend horror stories about unsuspecting folk who get picked up in bars and wake up the next morning in a bath full of ice with their kidneys removed? I am terrified something similar might have happened to me – I think I may have had a humour by-pass without realising it. […]
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