Heartbreakers
Heartbreakers is the story of a mother-daughter conwoman team, Max and Page Connors (Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Love-Hewitt respectively).It initially interested me because the idea of conwomen sounded interesting; it’s always the men who get to pull of elaborate schemes, …
November 15, 2008 6 Comments
Australian Gladiators
I watched the first episode of the remake of Gladiators, and the thing that struck me was how the female gladiators looked and acted. I’ve broken it down into three categories, appearance, attitude and names. This …
April 15, 2008 15 Comments
With Friends Like These…
I just watched an episode of Friends, and please, God, give me that half hour of my life back.
Basically, Rachel tells Ross she’s slept with four or five men while he’s slept with two women (including her). He …
February 26, 2008 24 Comments
All Saints: Use Condoms
There was a lot to gripe about season 10 of All Saints. But my number-one gripe was the storyline with Erica (Ricki), Dan and his Hep C.
Dan and Ricki have been best friends for a few years. He …
February 22, 2008 No Comments
BsG: Roslin and Adama’s Relationship
I’m working my way through the DVD of s2 of Battlestar: Galactica, and what strikes me, as it did the first time I watched it, is the wonderful relationship between the leaders of the military and civilian populations, Commander Bill …
February 12, 2008 2 Comments
Hairspray
Hairspray is one of those movies that would have been really, really cool, if only it weren’t for that little itty bitty problem of a badly written character that grates on you every time you see them.
The movie looks at …
February 9, 2008 15 Comments
All Saints: The Hard Yards
In the season one episode of All Saints, The Hard Yards, nurse Jarad’s football hero Gazza is admitted, having been stabbed by his girlfriend. Gazza is claiming an unprovoked attack by a jealous, insecure girlfriend; the girlfriend is …
February 5, 2008 3 Comments
Return To Sender
I used to be quite a fan of Tom Hanks until I realised that, while his movies aren’t exactly misogynistic, they’re definitely about the average-looking guy saving the day in some humble way and winning the stunning girl in the …
January 29, 2008 12 Comments
Duh, It’s All About the Guys
A recent episode of Grey’s Anatomy had me chuckling. In it, Meredith’s stuck in a typically trite love triangle between Derek, a married man who routinely broke her heart, and Fin, a vet who obviously adored her and forgave an …
January 22, 2008 4 Comments
Rogue
I recently saw the Australian horror movie Rogue which was promoted as ‘Jaws with a crocodile’ but was surprisingly better than the second-rate rip-off I expected. It was quite creepy in parts, but largely, I was disappointed with the main …
January 18, 2008 No Comments
