Audience response to Quentin Tarantino’s latest flick Inglorious Basterds has been overwhelmingly positive — so why are so many film critics sneering and jeering? asks John Birmingham. It’s time they pulled the “too-cool-to-like-anything-popular” stick out.
Reviewers
The reviewer and the reviewed
There’s a noble tradition of intelligent critical writing, and isn’t it just a little effete and conceited to withdraw from that debate? Writer David Nicholls agonises over whether he should read reviews or not.
The most overused words in food writing
From “nosh” to “mouth feel”, the words that make reviewers sound like tossers and give Robert Sietseme the heebies.
Discord as Cleveland Plain Dealer slings its critic
Classical music critics are a dying breed in the media writes Greg Barns.
Tips and rumours
At least one Labor candidate has spelt their name wrong on the nomination form.
John Howard announced last week an increase in GP training numbers to combat the shortage all over Australia. The press failed to link this with the reduction in GP training places in 1997 that created the mess in the first place. A […]
