Killer Joe – Starring Matthew McConaughey, Juno Temple, and Emile Hirsch. Directed by William Friedkin. Rated R. By Simon Miraudo. Their first crime was being stupid. The subjects of Tracy Letts’ play Killer Joe give trailer trash a bad name. They are trailer effluvia; fortunate enough to have taken human form, but lacking all the […]
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Tastes like chicken – Killer Joe review (Sydney Film Festival)
June 18, 2012 
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Killer Joe – Starring Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, and Juno Temple. Directed by William Friedkin. By Richard Haridy. Killer Joe played the Sydney Film Festival. It does not yet have an Australian release date. Killer Joe is a grubby blast of amoral fun featuring a revelatory turn by Matthew McConaughey as the titular Joe; a […]
Continue readingTalk to the animals – We Bought a Zoo review
April 30, 2012 0 Comments
We Bought a Zoo – Starring Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson and Thomas Haden Church. Directed by Cameron Crowe. Rated PG. Originally published December 20, 2011. By Simon Miraudo. We Bought a Zoo arrives on DVD and Blu-ray in Australia May 2, 2012. If you had hoped writer-director Cameron Crowe would return from his six-year hiatus having shed the demons of Elizabethtown, well, I’ve got some bad news […]
Continue readingTalk to the animals – We Bought a Zoo review
December 20, 2011 1 Comment
We Bought a Zoo – Starring Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson and Thomas Haden Church. Directed by Cameron Crowe. Rated PG. By Simon Miraudo. If you had hoped writer-director Cameron Crowe would return from his six-year hiatus having shed the demons of Elizabethtown, well, I’ve got some bad news for you: We Bought a Zoo is […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: We Bought A Zoo
September 15, 2011 3 Comments
The trailer for Cameron Crowe’s new movie We Bought A Zoo has debuted online, and it is perhaps the Cameron Crowe-iest trailer ever made. A man quitting his job in spectacular fashion? Check. A best friend offering sage advice to the main character, and imploring him to embrace the joy and wonder of life? Check. […]
Continue readingFirst look at Cameron Crowe’s We Bought A Zoo
May 4, 2011 0 Comments
It’s been a long time between drinks for Cameron Crowe, whose last feature film was the ultra-Crowe-ian Elizabethtown, best known for containing some outrageously bad sequences (stand-up comedy at a wake?), hilariously twee quotes (“This loss will be met with a hurricane of love”) and a performance from Kirsten Dunst that would lead critic Nathan Rabin […]
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