September 2008
3 posts
Tropic Thunder Review →
Tropic Thunder Starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jnr, Nick Nolte, Matthew McConaughey, Steve Coogan, Tom Cruise Directed by Ben Stiller This movie is ridiculous. Which isn’t to say it’s not also hilarious. More that its layer upon spoof-layer upon insidery spoof-layer joke-within-joke, does becomes a little exhausting at points along the way. It’s way meta, dude. Like when if ever...
August 2008
2 posts
1 tag
Heavy Metal In Baghdad Review →
I saw Heavy Metal In Baghdad at the Sydney Film Festival back in June, and I still have very mixed feelings about it. It’s brilliant in so many ways; it’s brutalising, it brings these guys’ story to a huge audience and it reveals just how wanting the media coverage of the Iraq war was (and continues in its non-existence, to be). But it is also — I feel —...