It’s no accident that the soundtrack of many scenes throughout the 3 hour running time of Short Cuts is jazz. Jazz is improvisational music, familiar elements constructed over a backbone that shifts and changes, reflecting life’s messiness. Short Cuts is the same, weaving plot elements and character archetypes you might recognise into an immense, organic…
Shame appears to establish Brandon (Michael Fassbender) as the suave gentleman that doesn’t exist outside of fiction, unflappable and exuding preternatural confidence. We soon find that this persona is a thin shell around a damaged core, and the film the same: beginning with confident, gliding cinematography that becomes gradually more erratic, disjointed. Shame isn’t a…
The appeal of the Scream films (well, the first two – Scream 3 was an abject failure) is their diversity. Each is a slasher, a whodunit and a satirical take on the horror genre; even if they fail in one, they normally manage to be entertaining in another. Scre4m fails as a slasher film –…
Sam Simmons’ new show, Problems, is Australia’s answer to Louie. Like Louie, Problems is a window into its creator’s psyche: meaning that the show is absurd, hilarious and fundamentally good-natured. It touches on Simmons’ love of “shitty trivia” and is weirdly obsessed with food (Episode one revolves around tacos while episode two features a sex…
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