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Calling Bullshit on Bella

I’m sorry but I’m calling bullshit on this whole pop-cultured can of beans that is the Twilight series, and the supposedly “feminist” message it epically fails to portray.
To begin with, the lead female protagonist Bella is a complete and utter bore – a blank slate, whose entire existence, thoughts, and actions revolves around her dull-as-nails, 110 year [...]

On Books

I always get a little melancholy towards the end of the year due to my utter lack of achievement, – lamenting for the things I haven’t done, the books I haven’t read (as the mountain of books beside my bed gets higher and higher)…
Except that this year I realised I’ve actually exceeded my reading expectations.
I [...]

Mary & Max

Mary & Max is one of the best films I’ve ever seen.
This film was a completely unexpected break from the structural norms of animated film.
Adam Elliot draws together an unapologetically bleak claymation film, tempered with sweetness, that follows the correspondence between a young Australian girl called Mary and an overweight American man named Max [...]

Three Word Movie Review: Man on Wire

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Musicians I shouldn’t like, but do.

So I’m not going to lie, the concept of this blog is plagiarised completely from Gareth (who plagiarised it from FavouriteFive.com), but it’s a Sunday and I’m feeling kind of lazy and nostalgic for bands I shouldn’t admit to liking but do.
1. Hanson

Yes – they were awful.
They looked and sounded like girls.
They wrote songs about [...]

Frost Nixon

Frost Nixon is one of the best films I’ve seen all year. In fact it’s possibly one of the best films I’ve seen this decade. An edge of your seat political drama following the infamous Frost-Nixon interviews whereby David Frost (a British television presenter) essentially puts Nixon on trial and tries to surrender an apology [...]

My first experience as a foodie: Steel Bar & Grill

I’m not in the habit of writing food and restaurant reviews. I’m not much of a food critic at all really and I don’t really have a lot of time for “foodies” because it seems to me they’re all using a thesaurus to see how many different ways they can come up with to say [...]