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The Cool Mums of Them All
May 2007
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Little Miss Sunshine topped many a 'Best Movies of 2006' list and with good reason - it is a film that manages to hit almost mark every with audiences.
Like the best movies about family, it seamlessly moves between "extremes" in emotion, from hilarity and sadness and back again.
About 'ordinary folks' battling personal demons, Little Miss Sunshine possesses achingly honest dialogue, freakish yet familiar characters, a road trip filled with hilarious accidents while poking fun at the heart of America's heartland - without being cruel or misanthropic...
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It's the Footy Season, Now also on DVD
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As summer dwindles and autumn entices winter, there's only one thing that can warm diehard souls as the days grow short and the nights chill over - FOOTY SEASON!!
If you thought going to matches, keeping an eye on scores, reading the sports section, talking to mates and surfing the net for tribunal results was enough - think again! DVD also has a plethora of football titles to offer avid fans, whatever code you follow.
The most recent film to dive into football culture in Australia is Khoa Do's Footy Legends (2006), his second film after the runaway success of social-realist drama, The Finished People (2005)...
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Megan Spencer has spent way too much of her life in the dark, all for a
good cause though - watching movies as a professional film critic. for the last
six and a half years she has been serving the ever-increasing hunger for film
and DVD reviews as radio triple j's resident film critic, and a year ago joined
the new line up of long-running SBS-TV film review program, The Movie Show.
And the impossible question to ask a film critic: what's her favourite film?
"Blue Velvet would be at the top of the list, so would Fight Club... But then
again American In Paris makes me cry every time."
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Our Mums... on TV
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In your make believe TV family, who would you want for a mum? A homemaker like Carol Brady or Maude Flanders? Or a career woman juggling the domestic duties like Clair Huxtable, Jill Taylor or Elyse Keaton?
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Me, I've got a top real life TV mum; one who always makes sure I have a cool collection of Basil Brush, "The Magic Roundabout" and "Batman" Corgi toy cars; buys me the latest "Catweazle" and Humphrey B. Bear annuals and books; serves me meals on my "Skippy" dinner set; and most importantly, Mum lets me watch what I want - including "Number 96" and "The Box"!...
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TV Freak
Scott Goodings is crazy about TV. Scott's first TV memory is an episode
of "Matlock Police" called "A Piece Of Cake". His first experience of the
medium in colour was seeing a Hector The Cat road safety commercial through the
window of the CBA bank in Cheltenham in 1975.
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Stephen Frears' latest is essentially a sequel to The Deal, the TV play about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown which Frears directed from another Peter Morgan script. Michael Sheen gives another uncanny, insightful performance as a younger, more with-it Tony Blair than the embattled character we see these days... Read full review |
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Love or loathe them, Sofia Coppola's films are signature creations. Listless captivity is rarely as alluring as it is in her montages of sound and image, in which young girls wander in languid dislocation from their surrounds... Read full review |
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The Road To Guantanamo is an example of why America's current tactics will lose them their war on terrorism. But the resounding picture it serves to represent is the present danger of being in the wrong place at the wrong time or the wrong race and religion... Read full review |
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The world's unlikely fascination with flightless Antarctic birds blossomed with March Of The Penguins, a documentary which defrosted a few convenient truths for family audiences nursing guilt over global warming... Read full review |
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Xavier Fitch: We decided to make it female so it would be more docile and controllable.
Preston Lennox: More docile and controllable, eh? You guys don't get out much.
Movie: Species (1995)
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