September 2009
5 posts
And by the way....
(I know this is very late, but)
DO go and see: District 9.
DON’T go and see: Inglourious Basterds.
The first is great in too many ways to list. Just go see it. The second is, unsurprisingly for a Tarantino, completely full of itself and yet manages to be incredibly dull for the most part. It’s not a cooled-out version of The Dirty Dozen like you’d expect from the way it was...
August 2009
12 posts
Life In A Small Metal Box →
benkraal:
Jason Whittaker in the New Matilda, on the poor state of public, and private, transport in Australian cities:
[A]s many disgruntled cabbies rightly argue (as we while away the time stuck in Sydney’s abominable traffic, the meter ticking over furiously), you can’t expect people to leave their cars in the garage if you don’t provide an effective alternative. In the Harbour City it’s...