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Why I Suspect ATM Actually Stands for Artistic Taste Moderator

June 15, 2009

Despite my childhood fear of the Village logo as mentioned in my last post, Adam and I overcame adversity and saw The Hangover at our local Village cinema this weekend. Buying cinema tickets online has always seemed like a no-brainer to me, mostly because you can choose your own seat when the cinema has allocated [...]

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These 12 Seconds of Film Tormented My Childhood

June 2, 2009

Writing about IMAX yesterday reminded me of one of my biggest childhood fears. It wasn’t the dark, it wasn’t monsters, it was… Village Roadshow’s ominous, creepy cinema logo from the 1980s. Just hearing the opening sound effect — which I imagined to be the noise of an undead rapist grinding a steak knife against the [...]

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IMAXimum Disappointment

June 1, 2009

In recent months, Hoyts cinemas have been retrofitting selected cinemas into what they’re advertising as large-scale IMAX cinemas. Around the time Watchmen was released, my mates and I figured those famous blue appendage scenes would be best propelled into our faces via IMAX, so off we drove. We were expecting a cinema screen of the [...]

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Backdraft 2: Revenge of the Electric Blanket

April 21, 2009

I’m one of those kids who grew up in the fearless 80s with both an electric blanket and an occasional bed-wetting problem. Hey, I turned out okay! My parents even refused to replace my Target-brand electric blanket when it began exposing raw wires, assuring me “it’ll be right”. Perhaps it’s the childhood comfort of climbing [...]

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Advice to Next INXS Singer: Watch Out for those Pesky Doorknobs

August 20, 2005

I was lucky enough to see Nine Inch Nails last night… that’s definitely going on my top 5 gigs of all time. Unfortunately, this morning my hearing is still shot to shit, so I can only communicate via nautical flags for now. I’m not so sure about this Charlie and the Chocolate Factory remake. Yeah, [...]

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Fitness Farce

June 5, 2005

Incredibly rare that I’m awake and blinking the sleep out of my eyes this early on a Sunday morning, but it’s a special, violent occasion! The big Kostya Tszyu fight is on pay per view this morning, so Adam and I have a few mates coming around to watch. Now the challenge is to resist [...]

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At the Movies

April 27, 2005

I’m sick of slowly nodding and sliding into a sly, uneasy, knowing grin whenever someone mentions that something’s “just like that scene in (wildly acclaimed cinematic classic)!” So here we go: I’m not a movie person. I’ve never seen any of the Godfather movies. I’ve seen the Star Wars movies once each (and apparently traversed [...]

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I Applaud Your Errors!

April 10, 2005

Occasionally, Foxtel will unlock some of their channels – usually the movie channels – as a special promotion over a weekend. Since last night, we noticed that the movie channels are currently free to view (we don’t normally subscribe to them). The odd thing was, I couldn’t find any scrap of information about a Foxtel [...]

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Enid

February 22, 2003

I think I want to be the heavy metal version of Enid from Ghost World.

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World War Mel

November 2, 2001

We hurtled through the city’s vehicular arteries, skipping between lanes in an erratic rhythm. The taxi driver’s saliva-stained lips and wide, rounded eyes betrayed his hidden sexual joy for the inner-city taxi gauntlet. We shuddered to a stop that would invoke a cursory nod of technical acknowledgement from most Boeing engineers. I attempted to control [...]

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