Pretty fly for a white guy

A fireable offense

50/50 is a semi-autobiographical film written by a guy named Will Reiser who was diagnosed with cancer in his twenties.  The film walks a tightrope – it is a comedy about cancer.  Fortunately, it is a tactful and good-natured film and you suspect that a lot of the film’s observational humour about how relatives and friends cope with the Big ...

Possibly my favourite moment of the current US election campaign. Have a good weekend everyone.

You know who’s a cool dude?  Batman. I know everyone’s excited about The Avengers right now and all the talk is about Hulk this and Iron Man that.  The Avengers was a good movie to be sure but personally, I’m way more hyped for the final installment of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy.  Batman is the greatest of all of the ...

There are pretty much only two Australian films.  Just two.  There are really dark morbid films about death and misery (Snowtown, Animal Kingdom, Lantana, Wolf Creek) and there are Aussie battler movies about unlikely underdogs who overcome the odds or stick it to The Man (The Castle, Australia, Crackerjack, The Dish). I mentioned before in the Queensland election blog that ...

I may as well hand in my Bruneian expat kid credentials now because I went and got my driver’s license yesterday.  I’ve been having weekly lessons for about 3 months.  In particular, it took me a while to nail the reverse parallel park.  I finally mastered it and…they didn’t make me do it during the actual test.  Oh well. What ...

This film should swap titles with Sex and the City

$5 gets you a LOT

Survivor: One World – Episode 11 – “Never Say Die” Okay I give up.  Survivor: One World was a season with an interesting premise and a fresh cast but this episode was just too much stupidity for me to handle. It’s been a somewhat entertaining season in its early stages, particularly because of the stupidity of some of the contestants ...