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April 29, 2017 in Columns, Pop Culture
Pop Culture #662
Is it all over for Marvel? That’s the tough question just about nobody is seriously asking: their movie franchises rumble onward with no sign of slowing, their future plans continue to stretch off far into the future, and their television department… actually yeah, there’s a bit of a problem there.
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April 8, 2017 in Columns, Pop Culture
Pop Culture #661
With the Melbourne International Comedy Festival now in full swing, what better time to remind people that they can also watch comedy on the ABC?
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December 3, 2016 in Columns, Pop Culture
Pop Culture 652
Remember when the end of television ratings meant the end of first-run television? Someone must have forgotten to tell the current crop of television programmers that when summer starts, local television stops, because these days the longer the day the greater the chance there’s going to be some new release Australian comedy showing.
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November 23, 2016 in Columns, Pop Culture
Pop Culture 651
Charlie Brooker’s TV series Black Mirror has been an internet fave since it first launched in 2011, so it’s hardly surprising that with a third season just launched on Netflix, there’s been a lot of online chatter about his trademark grimly funny take on the future of social media.
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September 8, 2016 in Columns, Pop Culture
Is the “100 Best Films of the 21st Century” really the best?
Last week the BBC released a survey of 117 film critics worldwide to find out the top one hundred films of the 21st century.
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August 18, 2016 in Columns, Pop Culture, Tidbits
Pop Culture: Are superhero movies really all that?
There are a lot of reasons why superhero movies go wrong. It’s easy to forget just how long it took Hollywood to even get them this close to right; go watch The Shadow, or Meteor Man, or Batman and Robin if you want to know what a real superhero trainwreck looks like.
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July 15, 2016 in Columns, Pop Culture
Pop Culture #642
If you ask around it seems like nobody likes sequels. “Where are the new ideas?”, movie-goers cry. And fair enough too, as pretty much every blockbuster this year (and every other year) is a remake or a reboot. And yet audiences keep on turning out for sequels and remakes. Everyone says the Ghostbusters remake looks iffy; yet everyone’s still planning to check it out at some stage.
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July 2, 2016 in Pop Culture
Popped
A little-known producer recently suggested perhaps Adele wasn’t much of a vocalist, and relied on studio trickery to enhance her talents. Her response? An invitation to suck her d**k.
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June 27, 2016 in Columns, Pop Culture
Pop Culture #641
Election time is generally seen as a boom period for Australian comedy, and who can blame them? Politics is one of the few areas of Australian life where comedy still has a toehold – the days of anyone making jokes about sport more sophisticated than the ones of The Footy Show seem long gone – and an election means that for once the general public is supposedly as interested in politics as people in the media are.
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June 18, 2016 in Columns, Pop Culture
Pop Culture: Cleverman
The ABC’s latest drama series Cleverman was heavily-hyped in the lead-up to its launch last week (new episodes air Thursday nights at 8.30 on ABC1, or you can catch up on iView), and going by the first two episodes the hype was pretty much justified. But it’s been interesting to read the difference between local reviews (where everyone loves it!) and ones out of the US (where it’s seen as ok, but not something that stands out from a pack dominated by various low-key UK supernatural and SF series).
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