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Wilde
I should be heading off to bed, but I’ve just finished watching the 1997 Steven Fry movie about Oscar Wilde. I’d never seen it before, but I noticed it today … Read the rest “Wilde”
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Me & My Sister
This is a really terrific French film that has just opened in Australia, although it was released last year in France as “Les Soeurs fachees”. At the heart of the … Read the rest “Me & My Sister”
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Howl’s Castle
Aside from watching “Astro Boy” as a child, and more recently occasionally browsing at the Channel 10 Breakfast cartoons, I’ve never really had much of an interest in, nor experience … Read the rest “Howl’s Castle”
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Hotel Rwanda
Earlier this week I was listening to “Late Night Live” on Radio National on which Phillip Adams spoke with Lieutenant-General Romeo Dallaire, the UN official on which one of the … Read the rest “Hotel Rwanda”
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Downfall
This is one of the most amazing films I have ever seen. Although ostensibly the film deals with the decline, fall and suicide of Adolf Hitler, it’s about much more … Read the rest “Downfall”
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Cats and Dogs
It’s Sunday night and it’s raining cats and dogs in Sydney. Curiously enough, the weather is in stark contrast to that which I’ve enjoyed in Hobart over the last few … Read the rest “Cats and Dogs”

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