DVD review: Sunshine cleaning

“From the producers of Little Miss Sunshine”, Sunshine Cleaning is a muddled, sometimes enjoyable attempt at an Indy feelgood comedy that never takes off the ground.
Desperate to pay her sons school tuition (a subplot that for unexplained reasons seems to disappear entirely) Rose Lorkowski employs the help of her sister to try to make it [...]

DVD review: The Grocer’s Son (1997)

dir. Eric Guirado 99m. Subtitles.
Nicolas Cazale, Clotilde Hesme, Stephan Guerin-Tillie, Sforza Jeanna Goupil, Daniel Duval, Paul Crauchet, Liliane Rovere.

Le fils de l’épicier est un film français avec du charme qui…oh, hang on, I’d better continue this review in English in case some readers think I’ve gone all pretentious, moi? 
If you’re looking for a fairly undemanding, [...]

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  • DVD review: Sunshine cleaning January 28, 2010
    “From the producers of Little Miss Sunshine”, Sunshine Cleaning is a muddled, sometimes enjoyable attempt at an Indy feelgood comedy that never takes off the ground. Desperate to pay her sons school tuition (a subplot that for unexplained reasons seems to disappear entirely) Rose Lorkowski employs the help of her sister to try to make it [...]
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  • DVD review: The Grocer’s Son (1997) January 16, 2010
    dir. Eric Guirado 99m. Subtitles. Nicolas Cazale, Clotilde Hesme, Stephan Guerin-Tillie, Sforza Jeanna Goupil, Daniel Duval, Paul Crauchet, Liliane Rovere. Le fils de l’épicier est un film français avec du charme qui…oh, hang on, I’d better continue this review in English in case some readers think I’ve gone all pretentious, moi?  If you’re looking for […]
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    Hip Hop is dead 22 of 229 At last, some effing violence! Blood, guts, sinew and entrails are picked up from the mud. It’s an animal carcass, though I’m not sure what animal. Perhaps, as previously discussed, it’s from a gnu. Could also be a giraffe, though admittedly the chance of giraffe’s being in Wyoming in the [...]
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    One thing I love about the movies is lurching from one genre to another, [like demented cork in celluloid sea? -Ed]. In the last week I’ve seen Ricky Gervais’ THE INVENTION OF LYING, Johnny To’s Hong Kong gangster flick VENGEANCE starring the charismatic French pop legend Johnny Hallyday, the iconic Melbourne-set ON THE BEACH with [...]
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  • The Strength of Water – Australian release December 3, 2009
    So, actually being in the NZ film industry has sucked my time away from AFR. But as this is in direct interest to my job, you get an update about the beautiful New Zealand film The Strength of Water. It opens today in Melbourne (Palace Como), Sydney (Chauvel) and Brisbane (Palace Barracks). Please check it [...]
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  • Heaven’s Gate (1980): Minute by minute: part 20 November 18, 2009
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