Whenever I get into a conversation about what the best Christmas film is, I cite the same handful of movies as my personal picks. Obvious ones: the original 1947 Miracle on 34th Street or Capra’s universally loved It’s a Wonderful
So, a few things I’m lumping together here. But all around the theme of Christmastime. In truth it has all become a bit of a pantomime, as we’ll observe. It even features the pantomime villain – in the form of
So, a quick follow on from the post on the Bondi beach terror attack. The
Islamist gunmen opening fire on exclusively Jewish targets on a Sydney beach on the first
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A strange object is in our Solar System and is being closely observed. You’ve probably heard about it. It’d be astonishing if
Did Trump give Bill Clinton a blowjob? I’m going to guess probably not. But the fact that this question is even
It was in March 2003 that Britain joined the United States in the illegal invasion of Iraq. As is by now commonly
Soundgarden has just been inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. A new album, featuring Chris Cornell’s final work with
The recent War of the Worlds movie was a total flop and has been trashed by pretty much everyone. Some have called
You might’ve heard that the US has left Afghanistan. After twenty years there, the US and the international forces have pulled out. They tried to do it pretty quietly. So quietly, in fact, that the overnight departure from the Bagram Air Base was something the Afghan commander there didn’t even
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He walked up to the podium to address the UN General Assembly. All eyes in the chamber were on the strange, eccentric figure, whose invitation to New York had been the subject of great controversy and coverage. Staring out at all the delegations of world government, he acted out ripping
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On October 19th 2011, a convoy of cars left the city of Sirte, carrying Libya’s beleaguered figurehead Muammar Gaddafi. On October 21st, an American/CIA drone (being operated from Las Vegas) spots the convoy and alerts NATO bombers, which immediately begin bombing the vehicles.
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There was something I hadn’t even realised until after I’d
The last couple of days have seen a resurgence in
Tapping into the hype surrounding the return of The X-Files
In the immediate aftermath of the death of Pope Francis,
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So a new blockbuster called Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire has just
35 years after the original film, the sequel to the
Someone asked me the other day why I’ve been so
With the classic Monty Python line-up being talked about a
The passing of Peter O’Toole in December was a sad
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In September, a 20th anniversary edition of In Utero is
A statue of the late Soundgarden/Audioslave frontman and rock music
A fair amount of new music comes my way on
Nineties Indie kids might be pleased by the return of
“I’ve always detested mechanized dance music, its stupid simplicity, the