Mississippi Grind (2015) – Friday’s Finest - Ben Mendelsohn was one of the first young Australian actors I admired growing up. He appeared in the little known Australian movie The Year my Voice Broke (1987) alongside Noah Taylor who I also liked. Both of these actors have…
What’s Your Greatest Comedic Moment? Larry and the Battered Women - Larry David goes to see some battered women (women who have suffered from domestic abuse)…You might recall the fabulous actress Ma’am’ here as Eddie’s wife Catherine in the 1983 Vacation movie – Miriam Flynn. She made this scene work as…
The Ghost Writer (2010) – Roman Polanski (Friday’s Finest) - When we started to bunker down in our respective COVID-19 shelters I went through my DVD archives and chose some movies I wanted to revisit. One such movie The Ghost Writer which I just finished watching features today in Friday’s-finest.…
Coronavirus IV: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - Coronavirus IV: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) Video news report at Last Week Tonight: I normally find John Oliver a bit smarmy and his humour hit and miss, but this episode was a gem. At the start he…
Coronavirus & Curb Your Enthusiasm (random thoughts on both) - COVID-19 I hope this message finds everyone well as we enter ‘Lockdown’ mode. It feels to me like we are living in our very own Science Fiction movie. Certainly we haven’t lived in times comparable to the these. Perhaps psychologically…
Full Index of Movies and TV
- 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.
- Manhattan – A stupendous movie about dating and relationships
- Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
- Sigur Rós – Njósnavélin (The Nothing Song) and Cameron Crowe
- Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) Ingmar Bergman
- Who Killed JFK? The Kennedy Assassination – Beyond Conspiracy
- The Lego Movie. Be Wary of the Hype.
- Inside Llewyn Davis – The Coen Brothers
- Chrysler and Bob Dylan Super Bowl Commercial 2014
- Interesting Reactions to the ‘The Oscars has lost all respectability’ post
- ‘The Oscars’ has lost all ounce of respectability as a serious award contest.
- Jerry Seinfeld – All Awards are Stupid
- Comedy and the Ages. Lenny Bruce, Charles Bukowski and Hunter S Thompson
- Winter Light (1963) – Ingmar Bergman
- ‘Love and Theft’ – American Hustle (2013)
- Ingmar Bergman and Wild Strawberries
- Barton Fink (Coen Brothers) – A Screenplay Masterpiece
