This is one for the feminazis. Continue reading
Archive for the Film Category
My First Gay Porn Film
Posted in Film, Observation, Pornography with tags Chuck Norris, Feminism, Gender Studies, Pigs at the Troff on June 3, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Comparative Religions in 'Game of Thrones'.
Posted in Film, Real Men with tags Game of Thrones on May 19, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
“Do you pray to the Gods?”
“The old and the new.”
There is only one God, and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death; not today.”
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Biting the Hand That feeds
Posted in Film, Observation with tags A Clockwork Orange, Andre Bazin, Dawn of the Dead, Dead Set, Dennis Hopper, Gaspar Noe, George A Romero, Irreversible, John Woo, Sam Peckinpah, The Astor Theatre, The Wild Bunch, UK Big Brother, Velvet Underground, Zak Snyder on January 14, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
Of Gods and Men
Posted in Film on January 4, 2012 by Jarrod Boyle
“Accepting our powerlessness and our extreme poverty is an invitation, and urgent appeal to create with others relationships not based on power. Recognising my weaknesses, I accept those of others. I can bear them, make them mine, in imitation of Christ. Such an attitude transforms us for our mission. Weakness is in itself not a virtue but the expression of a fundamental reality which must constantly be refashioned by faith, hope and love. The apostle’s weakness is like Christ’s: rooted in the mystery of Easter and the strength of the spirit. It is neither passivity nor resignation. It requires great courage and incites one to defend justice and truth and to denounce the temptation of force and power.”
– Of Gods and Men, 34 minute mark.
Sometimes you see or hear or read something that, regardless of its quality, cuts you right to the quick. Continue reading
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The Dark Knight
Posted in Film with tags Alan Moore, Batman, Christopher Nolan, Gomorrah, Gotham City, Harvey Dent, Heath Ledger, Two Face, Watchmen on December 26, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
I sat down and had another go at Batman Begins the other night. After sitting through the first ridiculous half-hour, it sucked me in. It’s a great looking film, and distinctly Christopher Nolan; he’s only 41 (so says Wikipedia) and he’s been permitted to make a whole lot of frighteningly big-budget films, real close together. How you feel about them depends on whether you feel that his tropes are strongly established (a Kubrickian sense of individuals dwarfed by technology and architecture, organised along ruthlessly symmetrical lines) or all a bit repetitive. I’m willing to ascribe to the former. Continue reading
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Icons: Part I
Posted in Film, Journalism, Observation with tags Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky, Birth of Venus, Botticelli, Dante, Inferno, Ivan's Childhood, Lumiere Cinema, Museo Del Prado, Pasolini, Primavera, Salo, Uffizi on December 24, 2011 by Jarrod BoyleMany years ago, my good friend Jonathan Devenish and I dragged ourselves off to see Andrei Rublev at the now-defunct Lumiere Cinema. Continue reading
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'Goodfellas' Versus 'Love Ranch'
Posted in Film with tags Goodfellas, Helen Mirren, Joe Pesci, Lord of War, Love Ranch, Raging Bull, Scorsese, Taxi Driver on June 28, 2011 by Jarrod BoyleI think it’s time for a genre called ‘Scorsese’. Continue reading
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Cardinal Sin
Posted in Film, Journalism with tags Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean, Russell Brand, Snowtown, Tango and Cash on June 4, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
When you go to see a mainstream film, you know you’re going to have to put up with certain things. Continue reading
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Snowtown
Posted in Film with tags Gummo, Harmony Korine, John Bunting, Judith Herman, Ken Park, Larry Clark, Snowtown the film, Trauma and Recovery on May 29, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
What's Wrong with the Australian Film Industry!
Posted in Film, Journalism with tags Chardonnay sipping socialist, David Parker and Nadia Tass, Jim Schembri, Matching Jack, The Age Newspaper on January 15, 2011 by Jarrod Boyle
Began reading this article on Friday afternoon.
It was interesting, and by the time I’d read the text, I decided to read the comments, also. Three things;
- You can’t underestimate the wit and wisdom of the average reader.
- Every twat responsible for the Australian Film ‘industry’ should have this fixed as required reading.
- The problem is just as most of us suspected.
I understand that most of us are ‘time poor’ (snigger), so I reproduce some of my favourite letters below. Continue reading
Theme Park at its Darkest 