Plato's Picture Palace

A film fanatic pontificates on the good, the bad and the ugly children of the cinematic muse. From tasty trash to high art, Aussiescribbler goes there and comes back to give you the low-down.

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Off the Rails : Odd's Job and Beyond

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Not very much happens in Bent Hamer 's O' Horten , Norway's official submission for the foreign language film Oscar for 2007, bu...

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Holy Pappadums, Batman! It's a Bollywood Superhero!

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This post is something I wrote a couple of years ago. I heard on the (Cool) Shite on the Tube podcast about a new Bollywood superhero movie...

Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Some Depictions of Jesus in the Movies and a Theory About the Man Himself

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Almost as soon as cinema was invented people began making movies about Jesus. According to the IMDB the first was The Horitz Passion Play i...

Friday, May 22, 2009

The Literary Output of Jonathan Ross (With a Digression on the Subject of The Illinois Enema Bandit)

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While Jonathan Ross is an institution in the U.K., those of us who live in other countries have only seen him on our televisions sporadical...

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

When There Wasn't Even Any Hollywood

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Before the fall when they wrote it on the wall When there wasn't even any Hollywood Steely Dan, The Caves of Altamira This isn't a m...

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David Munn (Aussiescribbler): Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; Born in 1962, I developed my love of cinema mainly from watching movies on black and white television when I was a youngster. Trips to the movies were a special treat. From there my obsession grew until I now go to the cinema two or three times a week and see the time I sleep as a serious infringement on my DVD watching time.

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