Outrageous Fortune
I may sound like a terrible turncoat, but lets face it, New Zealand is punching well above its weight. So much good stuff comes out of the place; THE CLEAN, BAD TASTE, way more stuff than you expect from our trans-Tasman cousins.
Now you can add TV show OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE to the list. It's kind of like THE SOPRANOS if they were petty, go-nowhere criminals living in the suburban shit hole that is West Auckland and trying to get clean.
2046
I don't really watch a lot of film, or TV, nor do I know enough about it to do any sort of adequate critique, but I will do my best here.
I recently saw 2046 by Writer/Director Kong Kar-Wai, which is about four years old now. It's a love story that ambles through the city of Shanghai following a couple different intertwined narratives.
David Lynch DVD Collection
Has David Lynch just become a friendly caricature of American oddness? I mean, once you turn 60, start evangelising about meditation, and release your own brand of coffee - how strange can you really be?
A new five-disc DVD collection gives a before-and-after glimpse of Lynch's career. You can start with the industrial nightmare of fatherhood that is ERASERHEAD, and then wash your mind clean afterwards with his early short films like the adorable THE FRENCHMAN AND THE COWBOY.
Sukiyaki Western Django
Sergio Leone has been a punchline for too long. Half the time someone faces off with an enemy - whether in comedy, soap opera, or sci-fi - suddenly we'll see close-up squinting and hear Morricone's whistled woo-WEE-woo-WEE-woooooo.
Yeah. They're like cowboys. We get it.
Cult-auteur Takashi Miike knows better, and his latest film is one long love letter to Leone.
A Nightmare On Elm Street
When in doubt, revert to a classic. Well, that's what I say anyway. And there is nothing quite like the slasher film to end all slasher films, featuring one of the most infamous and haunting horror characters in cinematic history, not to mention an ‘80s cultural icon.
The story is simple enough.
Heavy Metal Parking Lot
In 1986, before headbangers were (ironically) hip, when camera crews were still a novelty worth cavorting drunkenly before, a dude from D.C. borrowed some gear from the local TV station where he worked and went down to the sports arena before the big Judas Priest show. The rest is heavy metal history.
River Cottage Forever, Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall
This is another one of those cooking shows that I seem to be addicted to at the moment. There is something mind-numbing about watching cooking, leaving plenty of time to entertain the other side of the brain with any computer heating up your region.
The show is about Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, a British chef who spent a brief period as a sous-chef at River Café but was made redundant for "being messy" and "lacking discipline".
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