by renée brack | Sep 3, 2014 | Archive, Blog
So Jennifer Lawrence’s bits are displayed on small screens instead of her talents on the big screen. The media goes into a Fukushima-sized meltdown. Can everyone just cut the disproportionate outrage? It’s insulting to Jennifer and all...
by renée brack | Aug 26, 2014 | Archive, Blog
Lots of people and film critics bag Woody Allen movies. Sure, some of his 40+ features are better than others. The ones I enjoy most are his fantasy films because they bridge a gap of possibility between what is superstition and fact. I love...
by renée brack | Jul 28, 2014 | Archive, Blog
Mad Max was made in 1979 (my favourite year of the 20th century as it was the end of a global innocence) – now he’s getting the 21st century franchise makeover. The internationally recognised classic revenge story about a working class good guy...
by renée brack | Jul 25, 2014 | Archive, Blog
A Most Wanted Man, the film adaptation of a John Le Carre spy thriller might be the finest of Hoffman’s final films. Complex human emotions and dramas are played out at an A grade level – trust, betrayal, leaps of faith, bullied into apathy,...
by renée brack | Jul 20, 2014 | Archive, Blog
Will the MH17 disaster put powerful fingers on big triggers? Events around the MH17 disaster are starting to resemble the triggers of war we’ve seen before. Look at the history of the inciting incidents that led to The Great War, World...
by renée brack | Jul 17, 2014 | Archive, Blog
The #BFFs squeezed into Cho Cho San about as hungry as we could bare so we could sample as much as we could of their re-imagined Japanese cuisine. It’s the new hip and happening place in Potts Point – a snug village in every way. ...
