THE CHRISTMAS WRAP-UP: YULETIDE AND NEW YEAR’S MOVIES AND BOOKS

I’ve just added four RIU Film reviews and two more book reviews from The Clothesline Digital Arts Magazine, so that’s it for 2014. And so…

My review of Russell Crowe’s feature debut as director/star, THE WATER DIVINER, is here.

My review of Peter Jackson’s final ever Middle Earth epic, THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES, is here.

My review of the last (surely) in the family-flick series, NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB, is here.

And my review of the musical misfire that is the new ANNIE is here.

And check out the books too, with Greil Marcus’ THE HISTORY OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL IN TEN SONGS written up here and R.S. Pateman’s creepy THE PROPHECY OF BEES here.

And merry Christmas to all!!!

ANOTHER CHRISTMAS WRITING FRENZY

In the build-up to Christmas I’ve been writing an awful lot, and I’ve just added it all. And so…

My Adelaide Review piece on the brilliant BIRDMAN (that’s the standard shortened title) is here.

My Adelaide Review write-up on Mike Leigh’s tremendous biopic MR. TURNER is here.

My Rip It Up online review of Marc Fitoussi’s FOLIES BERGÈRE (the title being used in Australia) is here.

My RIU interview with FOLIES BERGÈRE director Fitoussi is here.

My book review (for The Clothesline Digital Arts Magazine) of Philip Taffs’ pleasingly scary THE EVIL INSIDE is here.

And, finally, my quick Clothesline write-up on the 50th Anniversary Edition of John Lennon’s IN HIS OWN WRITE is here.

Whew!!! Again!!!

ANOTHER WRITING FRENZY: THREE FILM REVIEWS AND EIGHT BOOK REVIEWS (!!!)

I’ve just added three Rip It Up online film reviews and, so help me, no less than eight book reviews penned for The Clothesline Digital Arts Magazine. So it’s like this…

FILM

My write-up on Atom Egoyan’s disappointing (but no surprise there) THE CAPTIVE is here.

My thoughts on the filming of the beloved kiddie book ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY is here.

And my grilling of Ridley Scott’s God-fearing epic EXODUS: GODS AND KINGS is here.

BOOKS

The autobiographical Judi Dench picture book BEHIND THE SCENES is here.

Stanley Donwood’s strange and troubling HUMOR is here.

Ilya’s THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF CULT COMICS is here.

And Ilya’s THE MAMMOTH BOOK OF SKULLS is here too.

Alan Cumming’s upsetting NOT MY FATHER’S SON: A FAMILY MEMOIR is here.

Frances Larson’s entertainingly macabre SEVERED: A HISTORY OF HEADS LOST AND FOUND is here.

The awfully Ocker WHAT A CROC!: LEGENDARY FRONT PAGES FROM THE NT NEWS is here.

And, finally, Ray Winstone’s autobiographical YOUNG WINSTONE can be found here.

Whew…