Boogie Nights, The Master and Magnolia director, Paul Thomas Anderson seems to have been imbibing a few Cameron Crowe films if his latest effort, Liquorice Pizza is any indication. An unusual ‘teen meets older woman’ romance and homage to the California of the 1970’s, this film is apparently based on the life of actor/ producer Gary Goetzman. The plot of
Read morePaul McDermott is playing at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival with a new show, Paul McDermott Plus One. He caught up with Hear and There presenter Nathan Reynolds for Friday Magazine.
Read moreMordant comedy/drama French Exit, which is based on the 2018 novel by Patrick de Witt, evokes a number of film auteurs but particularly the oddball works of maverick director Hal Ashby (Being There, Harold and Maude). Like Ashby’s films, French Exit infuses an unusual story of family and relationships with sharp humour and a dark sense of the absurd although
Read moreThe latest film for writer/ director Miranda July (Me, You and Everyone We Know), the oddball comedy/ drama Kajillionaire is at first so irritatingly quirky, many will want to yell insults at the screen. Eventually – and we’re talking by about the last 20 minutes of the film – detractors should begin to embrace or least feel less enraged by
Read moreThe Trip to Greece is the fourth and purportedly last instalment in director Michael Winterbottom’s serio-comic travelogues starring Steve Coogan (best known as fictitious, cringe-inducing TV host Alan Partridge) and comic actor and quiz show host Rob Brydon. While adopting a slightly different approach to the three previous films, Trip to Greece won’t disappoint the series’ devotees. As fans of
Read moreWith her latest film On the Rocks, writer/director Sophia Coppola (Lost in Translation) once again conjures a restrained, leisurely-paced but extremely charming story of an unusual relationship between an older man and a younger woman. Here, the younger woman is Lauren played by the wonderful Rashida Jones (Parks and Recreation) a writer and mother of two small children starting to
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