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I went to see James Cameron’s movie Avatar last night. It is everything I said it would be. It is courageous greenies in touch with nature, beating back the greedy Tasmanian loggers. It is Dances With Wolves with blue indians instead of red. It is so PC that if its head were any further up …

I finally got around to seeing Baz Lurhmann’s Australia. I cannot remember ever having seen a film so offensively bad. It is three hours of unmitigated drivel. My mother-in-law said about half way through ‘This thing just goes on and on. It must be six hours already!’ My brother-in-law Bruce, at whose insistence we were …

From Jeff Lindsay’s Darkly Dreaming Dexter: You don’t have to take an IQ test to become a reporter. Even so, I always hope for just the smallest glimmer. And I’m always disappointed. Perhaps I saw too many blacka nd white movies as a child. I still thought the cynical world-weary drunk from the large metropolitan …

This afternoon Kathy and I went to see the movie of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. We were the only adults in the cinema who were not accompanied by children.  I wrote in April: if the director and producers have been able to resist the Hollywood temptation to tamper too much with the story, …

Two songs by Jewel. Thoughtful lyrics, and what a rich, pure voice. Angel Standing By Hands – If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we’re all OK – not to worry in times like these… only kindness matters…

Absolutely tasteless, but beautifully done and hilarious, the real Australia: Well, no more tasteless than that other Australian tourism promotion.

 From the Epic Fail blog (link below) via Mark Shea (link on the right), just because it’s funny.  see more Epic Fails

Dudley Moore: Victor Borge:

Read this column by Jeremy Clarkson for the fun of it. It’s just a silly story about not realising how hot a bottle of hot sauce was going to be. But in passing, it makes a point I have thought about a few times – that the result of the proliferation of product warnings on every imaginable …

I know, it sounds like an oxymoron. But it might just be true. I haven’t seen Paul Hogan’s new film Charlie and Boots yet. Philppa Martyr has, and has written an intelligent and amusing review, full of praise for what she says is an intelligent and well made film. Two of the things she enjoyed about …