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Monday 5 Jul 2010 · Movies

TV & Film Review: Eclipse & Colbert

Twilight: Eclipse Rating: M Distributor: Hoyts Release Date: July 1, 2010 The final chapter in the trilogy of films based on Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling Twilight series arrives at your cinema complex this week. Expect to see doey-eyed teenage girls and surly boys staring you down from billboards all over town. In the first film Twilight Bella Swan fell […]

Monday 21 Jun 2010 · Movies

Movie Review: Toy Story 3

Toy Story 3 Rating: PG Distributor: Disney Release Date: June 24, 2010 Frankly it’s worth seeing Toy Story 3 just to witness a moment in history toy manufacturer Mattel has never revealed – the day Barbie met Ken. This latest edition to the award-winning Pixar franchise not only mines our collective childhoods, it models our futures as well. […]

Tuesday 15 Jun 2010 · TV and Streaming

TV Review: Glee

GleeChannel: Network TENTime Slot: Thursdays, 8.00-9:00 pmRating: PG It’s the prerogative of any elder to criticise the ‘music of youth today’. I’m sure it was as popular a past time in Plato’s day as it is today. Parents who have been subjected to episodes of the new hit-series Glee probably wonder how such threadbare plots and two-dimensional […]

Tuesday 15 Jun 2010 · Movies

TV & Film Review: Shrek

Shrek Forever After Rating: PG Distributor: Dreamworks Release Date: June 17, 2010 Everyone’s favourite ogre returns to the big screen this June, wishing the Kingdom of Far Far Away would become Never Never Land so he can regain his great green mojo. Shrek makes a Faustian deal with the devilish Rumpelstiltskin in an effort to regain his essential […]

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Tuesday 1 Jun 2010 · TV and Streaming

TV & Film Reviews: The Mission

The Mission Rating: CC Distributor: ABC 1 Release Date: 10:05 PM, Sundays Compass has been a television framework for some real highs and lows when it comes to religious programming. The Mission, however, may be one of those welcome high-points. This four-part series comes from the same production team that brought us The Abbey, the story of five […]

Monday 24 May 2010 · TV and Streaming · Open House Interviews

TV Review: Glee (Podcast)

It seems the teenage musical genre will never die. First there was Fame next came High School Musical. Now, Glee takes centre stage, with not only singing, dancing and teenage romance, but a good dose of edgy humour. Since it first appeared last year the American TV series has quickly gained a cult following of […]

TV Review: The Pacific

With a budget of around $200 million, the new Channel 7 mini-series The Pacific is one of the most expensive ever made in Australia. It was filmed here, and includes famous Aussie faces like Gary Sweet and Zoe Carrides in on-screen roles. But it’s no Kokoda or Gallipoli. This Steven-Spielberg production is focused squarely on […]

TV: Underbelly and The Pacific

Underbelly 2Rating: MDistributor: Channel NineRelease Date: Sundays, 8:30 PM A contender for the highest rating television series of 2010, Underbelly – The Golden Mile is the third in Nine’s crime franchise based on recent criminal activities in Sydney and Melbourne. 2.2 million viewers tuned in to episode one of series three which picks up where the second series […]

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Friday 30 Apr 2010 · TV and Streaming

TV Reviews: Hey Hey it’s Master Chef Patrol

Master Chef RATING: PG DISTRIBUTOR: Network Ten RELEASE DATE: Nightly, 7:30 pm The Australian consumption of food preparation programs continues with the return of the second series of Master Chef. Last year Network Ten reaped a ratings bonanza when this latest permutation of reality television hit the small screen. The second series includes much of the attraction of […]

Friday 30 Apr 2010 · TV and Streaming

Mark Hadley Reviews Cougar Town

Cougar Town CHANNEL: The Seven Network TIME-SLOT: Thursdays, 8.30 pm RATING: M Cougar Town is a sit-com about Jules Cobb, a recently divorced woman who has launched herself back into the dating game, seeking the good times she never managed as a result of marrying young. Every few weeks she begins a new relationship with some toy […]

Tuesday 13 Apr 2010 · TV and Streaming

TV Reviews: Beautiful People

Beautiful PeopleCHANNEL: ABC1TIME-SLOT: Wednesdays, 9.30 pmRATING: M What can a Christian do with an immensely funny, insightful comedy – that parodies the life of a homosexual window dresser? Well, not over-react for a start. Beautiful People built on the one thing Christians have in common with the gay community: rejection. Beautiful People is a BBC comedy that […]

Tuesday 13 Apr 2010 · TV and Streaming

TV: Scrubs & Carla Cametti PD

Carla Cametti PD RATING: M DISTRIBUTOR: SBS One RELEASE DATE: Wednesday, 8:30 PM Sometimes it’s a pleasure to see a schedule filled with re-runs. SBS has brought back this slick 2009 production that mixes a strong family drama with a twisting who dunnit. Staring Diana Glenn and Vince Colosimo, Carla Cametti PD is the story of a female […]

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