Editor of VHS Tracking zine. Programmer of Trash Classics at Luna Leederville. Presenter at Movie Squad on RTRFM.
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The Package 1989
The Package has always held the same appeal to me as the memory of a Len Deighton novel on my parent’s bookshelf. Cold war thrillers like Gorky Park, The Fourth Protocol, The Hunt For Red October and The Fourth War. What Dad Movies used to be from a different era.
Army officer Gene Hackman is assigned to transport Tommy Lee Jones, a soldier under arrest, from Berlin to America, not realising that Tommy Lee Jones is a ghost assassin hired…
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Grand Theft Hamlet 2024
Relies on a type of British deadpan humour, polite and nerdy, wanting to organise a Shakespeare performance in the middle pf open-world GTA. I was laughing heartily at the intrusions of anonymous players or NPCs blowing them away. Best moments were connecting to strangers like ParTeb, who was the best character in the whole thing. I was less engaged by the lockdown melancholy and ruminations. This film did inspire me to rewatch Limmy play Life Is Strange on YouTube (“Hella cash”).
Grand Theft Auto is available on Mubi in Australia.
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TÁR 2022
I attended a preview screening of TAR that was connected with 6iX, a ‘golden oldies’ radio station, and the majority of the audience there were older people. I’m sure they were all excited about seeing an acclaimed Cate Blanchett movie but it didn’t take long to palpably feel their growing disinterest and unease. Right from the titters during the opening choice to feature the below-the-line crew credits for the first five minutes. Then after the first half hour, every ten or…
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