by renée brack | Nov 7, 2015 | Archive, Blog
You know what to expect. It’ll be served up the way you like. And after you’ve consumed it, there’ll be some satisfaction. Then you’ll forget about it until the next time a promotional ad stirs your urge again. Spectre is ‘spectacle cinema’ at it’s best but is it the...
by renée brack | Oct 9, 2015 | Archive, Blog
I’ve seen both these real life stories dramatized for the big screen. Both have hard-working lead actors: Tom Hardy plays twins Ronnie and Reggie and uses bad English false teeth as an essential mise en scene element to dentally differentiate the brothers and East...
by renée brack | Jul 30, 2015 | Archive, Blog
Some Australian business names are so beloved by the public, they become part of our everyday language. Boldness in a person is described as ‘more front than Myer’. ‘Gone to Gowings’ came from an advertising campaign in the 40s...
by renée brack | Jul 22, 2015 | Archive, Blog
“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” Kenneth Grahame, The Wind In The Willows Learning to sail as an adult is like...
by renée brack | May 17, 2015 | Archive, Blog
Mad Max Fury Road is the most-anticipated movie of the year so far – more than Avengers Age Of Ultron – because it has a deeper, richer cinematic ancestry dating back to 1979 – Mad Max aka The Road Warrior. The original has had a...
by renée brack | Apr 28, 2015 | Archive, Blog
The people calling for Abbott to ‘bring our boys home’ from the firing squad in Indonesia remind me of the rabble calling for the freeing of Barabbas from the death penalty over some comparatively peaceful and guiltless guy who ended up copping the death...
