Author results: Mel Campbell
Bustin' Down The Door
In 1975, a brash, outrageously talented group of Australian and South African surfers burst into surfing's Mecca: the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii. Far from being drug-f*cked hippie dropouts, Wayne ‘Rabbit' Bartholomew, Shaun Tomson, Mark ‘MR' Richards, Ian Cairns and Peter Townsend were determined to go pro.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Woody Allen may have shifted to sunny Catalonia with a Spanish crew, but you'll have to prise his trademark blend of sentimentality and bourgeois satire - and his favourite typeface - from his cold, dead hands.
Scarlett Johansson plays Cristina, the 'Free-Spirited Sexpot'; Rebecca Hall is Vicky, the 'Uptight WASP'.
The Wrestler
THE WRESTLER is an extraordinary film. It's as if Mickey Rourke's entire sad, bizarre history - his squandered 80s potential, his boxing career, his mashed-up, surgery-mask face - has been training for this performance. He is Randy 'The Ram' Robinson.
Director Darren Aronofsky has created a flesh spectacle: bodies sweat, bleed and ultimately give out.
Slumdog Millionaire
Right now, Mumbai looms in the Western imagination as a place where terrorists gun down tourists in luxury hotels. I can't work out if now's a good or a bad time to release Danny Boyle's lush Mumbai fairytale. But SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE is so wonderfully filled with human hope and redemption that it's more vital now than ever.
The 12th Japanese Film Festival, 2009
When you think Japanese cinema, you probably think about anime, right? Or samurai flicks. Or mind-f*ck horror. Or a lurid blend of bizarre sex and graphic violence. For 12 years now, The Japan Foundation has been bringing discerning cinemagoers all this... and much, much more!
Like wasabi hitting your sinuses, the festival kicks off with plot-twisting crime comedy AFTER SCHOOL.
Rock N Roll Nerd
Back in 2004, Tim Minchin was a ranga from Perth who wrote weird satirical songs that record companies didn't know how to market. Then he had a makeover (I love makeovers.) Rock'n'roll eyeliner! Chemically straightened hair teased up, like Russell Brand! Unbuttoned shirts! And get this: it totally worked.
Novel Badges
Keeping up with a dirty hipster's required reading can be dispiriting. You've gotta know your Lethem from your Eggers, classic novels from graphic novels. And while everyone's raving about the hilariously ironic promotional campaign for Chuck Palahniuk's latest effort, the last book you read was BLOW FLY by Patricia Cornwell.
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