SEVEN NEW BOOK REVIEWS AND TWO NEW FILM REVIEWS

I’ve just added two new Rip It Up online film reviews and no less than seven (!!!) book reviews written for The Clothesline Digital Arts Magazine, so you can see my piece on Kenneth Branagh’s CINDERELLA here and my piece on the Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart laffer GET HARD here, and all those book write-ups as follows…

BILL ODDIE UNPLUCKED: COLUMNS, BLOGS AND MUSINGS is here.

A double-header of the PEANUTS series’ latest entries VOLUME 19 and VOLUME 20 is here.

Miranda July’s THE FIRST BAD MAN is here.

Kate Hamer’s THE GIRL IN THE RED COAT is here.

Marion Halligan’s GOODBYE SWEETHEART is here.

Bill Price’s HISTORY’S WORST CRIMES AND THE PEOPLE WHO SOLVED THEM is here.

and Sofija Stefanovic’s Penguin Special YOU’RE JUST TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE is here.

ANOTHER WRITING FRENZY (DO THEY EVER STOP?)

I’ve just added one Rip It Up online film interview, one Adelaide Review film write-up and no less than five RIU film reviews, so you can read my chat with Keiynan Lonsdale, Aussie star of INSURGENT, here and the movies as follows…

Tim Burton’s BIG EYES is here.

Maya Forbes’ INFINITELY POLAR BEAR is here.

Cédric Jimenez’s THE CONNECTION (LA FRENCH) (part of 2015’s Alliance Française French Film Festival) is here.

Tonie Marshall’s SEX, LOVE AND THERAPY (part of 2015’s Alliance Française French Film Festival, and also known as TU VEUX… OUT TU VEUX PAS? and THE MISSIONARIES) is here.

François Ozon’s THE NEW GIRLFRIEND (LA NOUVELLE AMIE) (part of 2015’s Alliance Française French Film Festival) is here.

and, finally, Ira Sachs’ LOVE IS STRANGE is here.

SIX MORE RIU ONLINE REVIEWS

I’ve just added, after a pretty epic week, no less than six Rip It Up film reviews, and they’re as follows…

3 HEARTS (3 COEURS), part of the 2015 Alliance Française French Film Festival, is here.

CHAPPIE, Neill Blomkamp’s latest, is here.

INHERENT VICE, Paul Thomas Anderson’s filming of Thomas Pynchon’s novel, is here.

KIDNAPPING MR. HEINEKEN, with Anthony Hopkins, Sam Worthington and others, is here.

MANNY LEWIS, starring Australia’s own Carl Barron, is here.

and Chris Rock’s flawed TOP FIVE is here.

THREE FILM REVIEWS AND (GULP!!!) MY INTERVIEW WITH JEFF BRIDGES!!!

I’ve just added three Rip It Up online films reviews, so you can read all about my views on FOCUS here, SEVENTH SON here and UNFINISHED BUSINESS here. And, believe it or not, I also recently spoke to Jeff Bridges about his starring role in SEVENTH SON, so if you’d like to check out that article (and I’m sure that you do) it’s right here.

AND ANOTHER TWO RIP IT UP ONLINE REVIEWS

I’ve just added another two film reviews written for Rip It Up online, so you can read all about my thoughts on J.C. Chandor’s A MOST VIOLENT YEAR here and my sentiments concerning Dean Israelite’s PROJECT ALMANAC here.