When The World Is Reminded That All We Are Is A Bunch of Munchkins

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I can’t help but thinking of the scene where Dorothy enters Oz, her house in tatters, (having been picked up and thrown through the air by a tornado) she climbs out of the house to find that she’s killed a woman, her house has landed smack dab on the body of someone wearing some remarkably groovy slippers.

If I were a refugee

If I Were a Refugee

Adrian re-posted a reflection by Michael Leuinig from this weekend’s Sunday Age It says what no-one in the media or anyone in our political leadership seems to be saying at the moment, and oh how much it needs to be said… If I were a refugee What a nice one I would be. Not in [...]

The iPhone as a self-imposed artificial burning bush…

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Standing in the “inner circle” under the claw at the second Melbourne as Bono walked past (no, not bragging, just projecting an image heh heh) I looked around at the sea of iPhones and cameras around me, everyone had one, a couple of people never seemed to put it down, many pulled them out every [...]

Miracle by Matisyahu

Why Wolverine is not the Saviour

I’m hoping not to get any letters of complaint from any X-Men fanatics out there with this piece, let me first remind everyone that I’m a comic book fan as well, and the X-Men stories are epics that, for me are as important culturally as the Lord of The Rings (no, I did not just [...]

X-Men The Last Stand

Phoenix: You would die for them. Wolverine: Not for them. For you. First of all people need to get over their preconceptions about their precious X-men, they need to understand that this movie doesn’t care if the Phoenix was an alien entity that took control of Jean (and not a dual personality), they also need [...]

What Women Want

A Chicago advertising executive, Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) gets a whole new outlook on life when a fluke accident gives him the ability to read women’s minds. At first, this ‘gift’ provides Nick with way too much information, but he begins to realise that he can use it to good effect, especially when it comes [...]

Waking Ned Devine

In the game of luck, it’s not who wins or loses – it’s who collects that counts! What if someone in your town won the lottery? What if he were dead? And all you had to do to claim it was to convince everyone – to lie!(blurb from the video cover) Someone in the small [...]

Beach, The

Time magazine termed this movie a ‘contemplative action movie, an interior thriller’. It’s set on an idyllic island (based on Ko Pha-Ngan island, off the eastern coast of Thailand), with ‘beautiful people living in an unruffled commune, the symbiosis of modern man and primal nature’. A group of young peace-loving internationals seek to create paradise [...]

Bone Collector, The

The Bone Collector is a ‘whodunnit’ film about a serial killer in New York, who leaves cryptic clues at the scenes of murders. Denzel Washington plays the role of a forensic criminologist, Lincoln Rhyme, crippled in the line of duty, is confined to bed and dependent on round the clock medical supervision. He is pressed [...]