Watching Movies
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Watching Movies: The Great Con
Last night I saw American Hustle at the Jam Factory in South Yarra, Melbourne. The film is based, admittedly fairly loosely, on events surrounding an FBI operation called AbScam in the late seventies. The basic premise is that the FBI use two con artists in an attempt to bring down some of the less savoury types…
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Watching Movies: Happy Families
Today’s movie review will be of ‘August: Osage County’, an intense drama about the difficulties of living in the Weston family. Written by Tracy Letts, based on his Pulizter and Tony Award winning play of the same name, this story follows the relationships in the highly dysfunctional family as they try to deal with the…
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Watching Movies: Prisoners
Last night I saw Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Prisoners’ at the Moonlight Cinema in the Melbourne Royal Botanical Gardens. The weather was pleasant, if a little bit cool, I went with a sizable troupe of people, we all met early in the evening to share a picnic dinner and settle into a good spot. The story follows…
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Watching Movies: Harry Potter is gay?!
One of the great things about Mondays is that it’s cheap movie day at the Cinema Nova in Carlton, Melbourne. To celebrate this fact I took myself to see ‘Kill Your Darlings’ yesterday. This film, directed by John Krokidas, is the story of the murder of David Kammera by Lucien Carr in New York in…
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Watching Movies: Where’s Walter?
I’ve done a few of these ‘Watching Movies’ posts. Initially I had thought that I might be writing mostly reviews of movies I’d taken myself to, but I seem to have more friends that I have given myself credit for or something and have been to a few lately with people. Anyway, I will still…
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Watching Movies: Smaug!
I should admit right at the start that I did actually see this with someone, so the name is slightly false advertising, however, I will press on! Today’s film was ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’, the second instalment in Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit Trilogy’. What can I say about this film? I guess the…
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Watching Movies: Blue Jasmine
I’ve recently discovered the joy of going to the cinema by myself. I don’t have to wait around for someone to be available to go with me, which is great because I have a bit of a weird schedule and I know lots of busy people. I don’t have to compromise and see a movie…
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