Naked (1993) – Mike Leigh (Friday’s Finest) - Naked is a dark and confronting black-comedy film about a violent sex offender in London. This vagabond Johnny who wanders the streets expounding his world view at length to anyone who will listen is a detestable, but loquacious intellectual. I…
Once Were Warriors (1994) – Lee Tamahori (Friday’s Finest) - The movie now glorified as the big cinema game changer in 1994 is the Cannes Palme d’Or winner Pulp Fiction, but Once Were Warriors released the same year had a much bigger impact on me. After multiple viewings extrapolating the…
The Castle (1997) – Rob Sitch (Friday’s Finest) - This contains one of my all-time greatest comedic lines in Australian cinema history…Dad says to son Steve: ‘Oh Steve could you move the Camira, I need to get the Torana out so I can get to the Commodore‘. Steve –…
Halloween (1978) – John Carpenter (Friday’s Finest) - Halloween has nearly been rebooted more times than Britney Spear’s articles have appeared on the BBC home page. From that, you get a sense of the horror theme which coarse through both franchises. Despite the numerous attempts to replicate or…
Wonder Boys (2000) – Curtis Hanson (Friday’s Finest) - It’s a wonder I hadn’t reviewed Wonder Boys by now in Friday’s Finest. I’ll introduce this whimsical movie Wonder Boys by celebrating its stellar music soundtrack which includes Bob Dylan’s Oscar winning song ‘Things Have Changed‘ which I discussed in…
Full Index of Movies and TV
- Naked (1993) – Mike Leigh (Friday’s Finest)
- Once Were Warriors (1994) – Lee Tamahori (Friday’s Finest)
- The Castle (1997) – Rob Sitch (Friday’s Finest)
- Halloween (1978) – John Carpenter (Friday’s Finest)
- Wonder Boys (2000) – Curtis Hanson (Friday’s Finest)
- An American Werewolf in London (1981) – John Landis (Friday’s Finest)
- Mulholland Drive (2001) – David Lynch
- The Phantom Thread (2017) – Paul Thomas Anderson (Friday’s Finest)
- High Anxiety (1977) – Mel Brooks (Friday’s Finest)
- 18/5 – 23/5/21 Ignoring lab leak and ivermectin is “crime of the century” (from Livestream #80)
- Chasing Amy (1997) – Kevin Smith (Friday’s Finest)
- 3/5 – 9/5/21 incl. The Big Lebowski, Ivermectin & Vaccines
- The Hunt (Jagten 2012)- Thomas Vinterberg (Friday’s Finest)
- Color Me Kubrick (1999) – Brian Cook (Friday’s Finest)
- City of Stars (2016) – Justin Hurwitz
- Buena Vista Social Club (1999) – Wim Wenders (Friday’s Finest)
- Circle of Life – Elton John (1994)
- Moonstruck (1987) – Norman Jewison (Friday’s Finest)
- The Hugh Jackman Interview on the Tim Ferriss podcast
- Mississippi Grind (2015) – Friday’s Finest
- What’s Your Greatest Comedic Moment? Larry and the Battered Women
- The Ghost Writer (2010) – Roman Polanski (Friday’s Finest)
- Coronavirus IV: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
- Coronavirus & Curb Your Enthusiasm (random thoughts on both)
- 3/03 – 9/03 incl. Peter, Paul, Mary Magdalene, Andy Kaufman, Melbourne and Pornography
- Match Point (2005) – Woody Allen (Friday’s Finest)
- American Movie (1999) – Chris Smith (Friday’s Finest)
- 11/02 – 17/02 incl. The Bear Attack, Lou Reed & Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll
- Burn After Reading (2008) – Ethan & Joel Coen (Friday’s Finest)
- 4/02 – 10/02 incl. Rocky Marciano, Mr G and Anna Khachiyan
- The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) – Grant Heslov (Friday’s Finest)
- 28/01 – 3/02 incl. Natassja Kinski, The Great Barrier Reef, Gravestones and Black Books.
- 1917 (2019) and Gallipoli (1981)- Friday’s Finest Special Edition
- ‘The Golden Touch’ – By Ron and Toby Blanchard
- 21/01 – 27/01 incl. The Fall of Star Wars, Global Warming and Islam
- Comedy and Woke Culture
- 17/12 – 23/12 incl. Woody Allen, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Phar Lap (1983) – Simon Wincer (Friday’s finest)
- Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) – George Clooney (Friday’s finest)
- I Origins (2014) – Mike Cahill (Friday’s Finest)
- 26/11 – 2/12 incl. Movie stars, Little Books, The Moon, The Buddha and Jazz
- The Man From Earth (2007) – Richard Schenkman (Friday’s Finest)
- Remains of the Day (1993) – James Ivory (Friday’s Finest)
- The Goodbye Girl (1977) – Herbot Ross (Friday’s Finest)
- Wild Tales (Argentina 2014) – Damián Szifron
- Ida (2013) – Pawel Pawlikowski (Friday’s Finest)
- Loveless (Russia) 2017 – Andrey Zvyagintsev (Friday’s Finest)
- Bobby Fischer – My 60 Memorable Games (First printing 1969)
- 15/10 – 21/10 incl. Springsteen, Madness of the Crowds and Poltergeist
- Ordet (1955) – Carl Theodor Dreyer (Friday’s Finest)
- Another Day of Sun (La La Land) – Justin Hurwitz
- The Secret in Their Eyes (Argentina 2009) – Juan José Campanella
- No Filter Boxing – Wilder vs Fury fight
- 1/10 – 7/10 incl. Spanish-Language movies, Paul Rudd and Upstream
- Waterland (1992) – Stephen Gyllenhaal (Friday’s Finest)
- Alby Mangels – Beyond World Safari (Lynn Santer)
- 24/9 – 30/9 incl. Astronomy, IT (Chapter 2) and Mercury 7 Pre-Launch Facilities
- Running on Empty – Sidney Lumet (Friday’s Finest)
- Tokyo Story (1953) – Yasujirô Ozu (Friday’s Finest)
- Once (2007) – John Carney (Friday’s Finest)
- The Mosquito Coast – Peter Weir (1986)
- Monos (2019) – Alejandro Landes (Colombian entry for the best international feature film – Oscars)
- Dogville (2003) – Lars Von Trier (Friday’s Finest)
- 20/8 – 26/8 Manson/Epstein, Tarantino, Springsteen & Humanity’s Future
- Paris, Texas (1984) – Wim Wenders (Friday’s Finest)
- A Separation (2011) – Asghar Farhadi (Friday’s finest)
- Picnic at Hanging Rock 1975- Peter Weir (Friday’s Finest)
- A Lovely Night – Justin Hurwitz (La La Land)
- Put to Seinfeld… ‘Actor, Writer, Producer – Which of Larry David’s Skills do you admire the most?’
- The highly anticpated ‘The Irishman’ – Martin Scorsese
- Rocketman- Elton Hercules John!
- The Happy Prince – Oscar Wilde (adapted and directed by Orson Welles)
- Music homage films abound in 2019 (Beatles, Springsteen, Elton John & Bob Dylan)
- The Master (2012) – Paul Thomas Anderson
- Lost Horizon (1937) – Frank Capra
- Sleeper (1973) – Woody Allen
- Reflections on the ‘Who Killed JFK’ article
- A little known Australian movie called ‘Candy’ and Tim Buckley’s ‘Song to the Siren’
- Mandy – An art-house supernatural horror trip
- Crikey! ‘That’s a tough mother bleepin’ wooden door’
- Could watching the Phantom Thread become a *new* New Year’s tradition?
- Roma – A Latino Cinematic Masterpiece (2018)
- Moneyball and Wallstreet
- Keep On Sleeping With Ham Sarris #1 – Against Empathy (With Plaul Boom)
- I think Neil deGrasse Tyson just invented Intellectual Porn
- The greatest cover up in history – The unheralded Robert Zimmerman
- Did the RIO Olympics Deliver?
- Hail, Caesar! – A playful but unrealised Coen Brothers romp
- Bridge of Spies (2015) – Steven Spielberg
- Heaven Knows What (2014)
- The Wonder Years and ‘Catch The Wind’
- 20 Seconds of Insane Courage
- Another Earth (2011) What is it about?
- Love is Strange – A Movie You Shouldn’t Miss
- The greatest Larry David interview anyone could hope for
- Transformational Leadership at its most potent – Gandhi
- “It’s like a big ship… and the water’s on fire.” Tom Waits on David Letterman
- Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) – Woody Allen
- Blue is the Warmest Colour
- ‘Being There’ – A fairly solid depressing tale but not an overly satisfying one.
