‘You’ll never be The Beatles, so what’s the point?’
The Triffids’ frontman David McComb died just shy of his 37th birthday. Everyone, with the possible exception of his father, agrees he was a tortured genius.
Stephen Romei
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Bryan Cranston almost does a Walter White again
In the entertaining American comedy-drama Jerry and Marge Go Large the Breaking Bad actor finds a similar – though not illegal – outlet for his particular talent.
Along came Gosling
The Gray Man spent time in production limbo, with Brad Pitt first cast as Court Gentry, then, in a gender switch, Charlize Theron. Then Ryan Gosling stepped in.
Stuck in the swamp
Where the Crawdads Sing should be a better film than this.
Hemsworth stretches his comic muscles
The star is almost vaudevillian in Thor: Love and Thunder, one of the funnier superhero movies I’ve seen.
Vonnegut, warts and all
The fame of Slaughterhouse-Five propelled the author into Manhattan and the literary elite. He left his wife, the woman who believed in his writing when he did not.
What in hell did I just watch?
This is one of the most gobsmacking, mind-bending, stomach-churning movies I have seen. It’s an indefinable personal masterpiece.
Latin twist on Father of the Bride a lot of fun
Now, in culturally inclusive 2022, the old father’s tale turns its back on a WASP wedding in favour of a Cuban-American one starring Gloria Estefan and Andy Garcia as mum and dad.
A new Hemsworth in Spiderhead
The Thor star plays a man in charge of human guinea pigs in this character-driven movie in need of a lot more character.
Baz at his best will rock the Oscars
I think the 30-year-old American actor Austin Butler, aka Luhrmann’s Elvis, will win best actor at the 2023 Academy Awards.
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