Ah, Bobby and Peter Farrelly. Those giants of gross out. Those titans of the toilet bowl. Those pharaohs of the fart joke. Nothing’s changed in Hall Pass. Just as well, says Luke Buckmaster.
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The Golden Choc-Tops: the wrong side of the tracks, and cinematic wank-fests
Presenting the fifth and final day of Crikey’s annual film awards, The Golden Choc-Tops. Today the Best Wrong Side of the Tracks Story and the Most Sickly Pseudo Intellectual Cinematic Wank Fest.
The Golden Choc-Tops: smooth screen charisma, and the best unreleased film
Presenting day four in The Golden Choc-Tops, Crikey’s annual film awards. Today The Best Unreleased Film of 2010 and The George Clooney Award for Silky Smooth Screen Charisma.
The Golden Choc-Tops: deplorable characters, and the best Aussie flick of 2010
Day three of the Golden Choc-Tops, with awards today for the Best Australian Film of 2010 and the Malcolm Tucker Award for Most Deplorable On Screen Personality. And the winners are…
The Golden Choc-Tops: sweaty rides to nowhere, and the best sequel of 2010
Day two of the Golden Choc-Tops, with awards today for The Most Intense Sweat-Drenched Ride to Nowhere (otherwise known as the Best Confined Space Thriller) and The Best Sequel of 2010. Who will win?
The Golden Choc-Tops: drugs and debauchery, and the most under-rated film of 2010
Today we present the first two gongs in Crikey’s inaugural Golden Choc-Top awards: The Charlie Sheen Award for Most Spectacular Cinematic Display of Drugs and Debauchery and The Most Under-Rated Film of 2010.
Arizona shooting Reactions to Obama’s rousing speech in Tucson
Crikey media wrap:: At an emotionally charged memorial service held in Arizona yesterday for victims of the Tucson shooting massacre, Barack Obama delivered a rousing speech that may be remembered as a watershed moment in the flailing President’s career.
Daily Proposition: See an Unstoppable movie experience
Cheesy fist in the air moments and blatant grabs for emotional gravity always threatened to derail the twitchy pleasure of watching Unstoppable, but Scott keeps the cheese low fat and the action thick and flowing.
Daily Proposition: Float into Coppola’s new slice-of-life
Writer/director Sofia Coppola’s slow-moving slice-of-life drama Somewhere follows the day-to-day routine of a Hollywood star as he drifts between hotels, press junkets, floozy women and juggles the duties of being a father. Stephen Dorff plays Johnny Marco, a big-name Hollywood actor forever whisked between photo ops, publicists and gushing fans. The focus is very much […]
Daily Proposition: See a sweaty, claustrophobic thriller
Set during the 1982 Lebanon War and based entirely inside a tank, Israeli filmmaker Samuel Moaz’s Lebanon is the second single-setting war movie released in 2010.
Daily Proposition: Daily Proposition: Introducing the hellevator
Devil is about five people trapped in an elevator. One of them is the devil. The story for the most part sidesteps expectations, ducking and weaving and messing with the viewer’s mind, making for a thrilling that moves — and not just up and down.
Daily Proposition: See an Aussie neo-western flick
Like Machete, Red Hill captures a non-Caucasian gut-busting anti-hero who unleashes a biblical-esque plague of vengeance onto those who crossed him.
Daily Proposition: See some slashing good schlock
Exploitation movies don’t get much more deliriously exploitative than pulpy auteur Robert Rodriguez’s high-octane tribute to grindhouse cinema.
What the frack? Natural gas debate flares up in Australia
Documentary maker Josh Fox knew he was onto something big when he watched one of his neighbours turn on the kitchen tap and set the water that came out of it on fire.
Daily Proposition: Daily Proposition: watch Helen Mirren, locked and loaded
Red is the latest in a slew of American movies about over-the-hill action heroes who return to their former wild ways for a fresh round of (borderline arthritic) fisticuffs.
From roar to meow: MGM lion to merge with Spyglass
The dire state of debt-saddled Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc (MGM), which has been tinkering on the brink of bankruptcy for the last few years, is now beginning the slow trek towards a financial second life.
The Howard and Costello reunion tour
Crikey Media Wrap: The launch of John Howard’s book Lazarus Rising has reignited the epic stoush between the former PM and his former deputy Peter Costello, including prompting a vitriolic spray from Pete in today’s Sydney Morning Herald.
Labor’s new direction on asylum seekers
Crikey Media Wrap: Yesterday the Gillard administration did the seemingly unthinkable: they outlined — gasp! — a slightly different policy direction on refugee and asylum seeker processing.
Daily Proposition: Pick The Right One — the Swedish original
Last night I attempted to conquer a debilitating flu that has plagued me this week by indulging in two remedies: a round of hot totties and a re-watch of director Tomas Alfredson’s terrifically eerie Swedish vampire thriller Let The Right One In. As you do.
Daily Proposition: See a sweaty, claustrophobic thriller
Buried lacks a damatic oomph that might have kicked it into ‘must-see’ territory. But it’s a classy piece of work, a condensed thriller that takes an arguably silly concept and shapes it into a tense and sweaty ride.
Day one of the new paradigm
Crikey Media Wrap: After the longest election striptease in Australian political history, the supposed “new paradigm” finally arrived yesterday for the first non-ceremonial day of Question Time. It included much of the old rhetoric but also delivered a victory for the Coalition.
A Slippery start to parliament
Crikey Media Wrap: School’s back, returning in a largely ceremonial capacity, with ministers awkwardly walking through smoking ceremonies and newly-elected speaker Harry Jenkins pretending to be dragged unwillingly back to the speaker’s chair. But ‘Slippery Pete’ stole the show.
Delhi’s Commonwealth Games fiasco
Crikey Media Wrap: A bridge collapse is the latest event in a flood of negative press for the already beleaguered Commonwealth Games organisers. And the hyperbolic headlines are running hot.
Turnbull’s great challenge, Labor’s bungled cabinet
Crikey Media Wrap: Tony Abbott followed in the footsteps of Julia Gillard’s ministerial reshuffle last weekend by announcing his own rejigged lineup yesterday. The consensus is that Abbott’s new shadow ministry looks very much like the old one.
