The Latest From Joe Dolce
'1883' and 'The Power of the Dog' are chalk and cheese in framing the American West. The former, a prequel to the 'Yellowstone' series, takes its liberties but is overall an often moving repackaging of the frontier legend. Jane Campion's effort, on the other had, takes a powerful novel and laces it with her personal input, a curious homoerotic fascination not least of all
Jul 16 2022
26 mins
Cut to the Horse Pain under the ribs? Mr Hypochondriac, […]
Jun 30 2022
1 mins
'Cornwall is different to anywhere else in the world and it’s that difference that I want to try to explain and tell you what Cornwall means to me,' declares TV chef Rick Stein, whose SBS series makes as fine a meal of the county's often curious history and characters as of langoustines, mussels and prime cuts of wooly pigs
Jun 18 2022
15 mins
The Half-light the Low Light The half-light the low light […]
May 31 2022
1 mins
Before the troubled illustrator produced his thousands of anthropomorphised felines, cats weren't generally regarded as respectable pets. His images of moggies smoking pipes, pushing wheelbarrows, parading on their hind legs and reading newspapers changed all that
May 15 2022
12 mins
Ulysses for Bogans Most of all he liked grilled mutton […]
Apr 29 2022
1 mins
There has been no shortage of movies about the life and career of the Iron Lady, but 'The Long Walk to Finchley' leads the field. A wonderful, visually gorgeous period piece charting a remarkable young woman's unshakeable faith in herself and her principles, the film is a much-needed counterweight to the many depictions of a loathed and unlamented ice queen
Apr 18 2022
14 mins
Monkey-Skin Pillbox Hat It’s said that an infinite number of […]
Mar 31 2022
1 mins
The artistic licence director Justin Kurzel and scriptwriter Shaun Grant brought to 'True History of the Kelly Gang', which presented Ned Kelly as a beardless buffed-up teen with a mullet, is no less at work in their account of the Port Arthur massacre. Be that as it may, Bruce Beresford regards the film as 'easily the best I’ve seen about one of those awful shootings'
Mar 27 2022
19 mins