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Five Classic Films That Are Worth a Rewatch
Me and You and Everyone We Know Miranda July’s barnstorming debut works on a few different levels, and it is worth watching it again to see how all the different stories interplay. Yes there are few moments that grate, such as the teen girl fantasy subplot, but overall it still hangs together really well, over a decade later.
By T. Stolinski6 years ago in Geeks
Farewell Cineville
"Mike? I'm extremely excited." Photo by Felix Mooneeram on Unsplash The Cineville card is a scheme where you pay 21 euros a month (less if under 29 years of age) for a subscription which gives you free entry to arthouse cinemas across the Netherlands both for normal screenings and special events, such as festivals. It’s great! It means that I go to the cinema much more often than I would otherwise.
By T. Stolinski7 years ago in Geeks
Beach Bummer
Harmony Korine has a chequered movie history. I’ve been there since Kids (which he wrote), and he’s gone on to write/direct some classics like Julien Donkey-Boy and Spring Breakers. However, he’s also made a real clanger with Trash Humpers. His music videos are also all over the shop, his Rihanna video exhibits the same problems as Beach Bum (I'll come onto that below), and the Umshini Wam Die Antwoord collaboration was a missed opportunity.
By T. Stolinski7 years ago in Geeks
The Revelations of 'Cold Case Hammarskjöld'
The natural tendency of people, myself included, to believe what they read and hear in the mainstream media means that government agencies are able to constantly lie to us, and, what’s more, to get away with it. The normal pattern is that we are told a convenient fiction at the time, and then 50 or so years later the truth emerges.
By T. Stolinski7 years ago in Criminal
A Review of 'Secret City' Season 2 Episode 6 - "Two Cheers for Democracy"
The season closer begins with a big question—will Harriet (Anna Torv) find the USB stick and reveal the full extent of illegal drone strike program? The whitewashed version as it stands is that Pakistan hacked the drone. The fuming PM (Don Hany) has no choice but to expel the Pakistani ambassador (Dalip Sondhi) and surely he must explode in a frenzy of recriminations soon. In the meantime, he is watching Eisenhower speeches on youtube and getting psyched up. He now knows he is being stitched up by the unholy trinity of the Minister of Defence (Joel Tobeck), the US ambassador (Christopher Kirby) and Trebuchet the drone supplier, as represented by the mystery man (Michael Denkha).
By T. Stolinski7 years ago in Geeks
A Review of 'Secret City' Season 2 Episode 5 - "For Whom the Bell Tolls"
We are nearly there now! And things are cranking up nicely. Episode five begins with Caroline (Laura Gordon) surprising Harriet (Anna Torv) and demanding that she gets her another audience with the PM. Caroline now seems a bit unhinged and she doesn't confirm or deny she killed her friend. It's just a shame she didn't spill the beans when she was talking to the PM before. The irony is of course that he also wants to talk to her!
By T. Stolinski7 years ago in Geeks
A Review of 'Secret City' Season 2 Episode 3 - "Pale Horse"
The episode begins with Caroline Treloar (Laura Gordon), the rogue drone operator, being held in detention and brusquely told to pretend to her dad that she is in Hawaii. She is interrogated throughout the episode, and later on we find out she has killed almost 450 people!! Harriet (Anna Torv) shows the missile strike footage to Karen Koutoufides (Danielle Cormack) and then gets carted off for a chat with the toad-faced head of secret services Vaughn (Justin Smith) who we haven't seen much of so far in this season. The spylord is always lurking in the shadows, like an Aussie Stephen Rea.
By T. Stolinski7 years ago in Geeks
A Review of 'Secret City' Season 2 Episode 2 - “The War Zone”
First off in this episode, we hear some more about the operation that went wrong in Pakistan. Meanwhile, our heroine Harriet (Anna Torv) is busy trying to find out where the classified document sent to Mina (Louisa Mignone) came from and tries to get help from signals analyst Thomas Maher (Aleks Mikic) who, this season, is giving off a smart Ben Whishaw vibe. He refuses to help at first, being a goody two shoes and then is persuaded to change his mind when Harriet gets Mina's husband, Sami (Robert Rabiah), to threaten him. This seemed a bit far-fetched, to be honest. Thomas could easily have simply have reported the incident and seen Harriet carted off back to jail. Most of the story in this show is admittedly preposterous, but still it tends to have a ring of truth to it, whereas this seems a bit contrived, since Sami didn’t really seem to like Harriet in episode 1.
By T. Stolinski7 years ago in Geeks
