A SONG OF DRAGONS AND COPYRIGHT
This started as a Facebook post, but it's really an essay, so here it is. I'm assuming familiarity with the Great Australian Copyright/Media Access Mess.The copyright issues that always rear their heads around ...
DUE SOUTH We Have Met The Superman, And He’s Canadian
Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice is just one of many fronts in the Great Culture Wars, but it's a bitterly fought one, and perhaps the most hotly contested piece of real estate therein is the film's portrayal...
ESSAY: REBUILDING NEPAL The Long Climb
Preface: Travis recently wrote a piece on just-released movie Sherpa, which presents the other half of the story of Himalayan mountain expeditions – the less publicised half. As I’m currently in the Himalayas o...
THE OFFICIAL CELLULOID AND WHISKEY BEST OF 2015 LIST Accept No Substitutes
It was a good yearSo, if you just want a list, I put together a Top 10 for The West Australian, which you can read here.But that is just a list, without commentary or context, and besides, there were way more t...
SHADOWS OVER MANHATTAN H.P. Lovecraft And Woody Allen
So, as I write this, it's the 125th birthday of horror icon H.P. Lovecraft, who was born in Providence, Rhode Island on August 20, 1890. He also died in Providence in 1937 and, apart from a couple of ill-fated...
JAWS AFTER ACTION REPORT We’re Gonna Need A Bigger Cinema
Well, that was quite a day, hey?Saturday, June 20, was the exact 40th anniversary of the release of Jaws, which was unleashed in 400 cinemas across America on that date back in '75. Which is why we (and I mean ...
THE NUX OF THE MATTER How Nicholas Hoult Stole Fury Road
George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road is already the subject of a large and rapidly growing body of criticism. It is vast; it contains multitudes. It has been hailed as a masterpiece of action cinema, as a fiercel...
JOSS WHEDON AND MOB JUSTICE #NotMySJW
"...seems to be some kind of large crowd forming on the horizon."I swing pretty far to the left, politically speaking.Not all the way to the left, it must be said. There are a few areas where I’m more toward th...
THE OWLS ARE EXACTLY WHAT THEY SEEM Why We’re Better Off Without A Twin Peaks Reboot
As I write this it is April 8th, 2015 – the exact 25th anniversary of the first broadcast of Twin Peaks. It is, I assure you, a complete coincidence, but a serendipitous one.Generally speaking, you can tell whe...