Welcome to the final week of festive favourites. Today’s list features the highly festive subjects of children with cancer and homicidal Santas. 61. Nothing Like the Holidays (2008) A Puerto Rican family…
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From a Lampington’s disease diagnosis to a Christmastime truce, welcome to Part 12 of my Christmas film suggestions. 56. A Perfect Day (2006) Rob Lowe becomes a successful novelist and in the process allows…
From Nick Drake to Jane Fonda, erectile dysfunction to small town shenanigans, welcome to Part 11 of my Christmas film recommendations list. 51. Serendipity (2001) A gorgeous romance that starts and ends…
A time-travellin’ nurse, a suicidal bank manager and one helluva dodgy Christmas historian: welcome to Part 10 of my Christmas film recommendations. 46. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) Christmas doesn’t actually…
Festive double entendres and the boot-scootin’ Billy Ray Cyrus: welcome to five more suggestions to help you passively watch the season unfold. 41. Finding Mrs. Claus (2012) Early in, Mrs. Claus (Mira…
From Truman Capote to Vince Vaughn, draft-dodgers to ghosts of Christmas future… A whole new week and a whole new swag of festive film suggestions. 36. Fred Claus (2007) Truth be told, I really don’t care…
From a pleasingly plump funeral parlour make-up artist to murder, mayhem and melancholy in Belgium, five more suggestions to celebrate season in front of your screen. 31. One Special Night (1999) The “one…
Another December Day and another five reasons to spend Christmas in front of the television with replacement relatives like The Partridge Family’s Shirley Jones and The Wonder Years’ Fred Savage. 26. The…
Here are five more suggestions on how to experience Christmas vicariously, all from the comfort of your own couch. Just the way Santa/Jesus/Krampus always intended it to be. Enjoy! 21. The Bishop’s Wife…
Another December day, another batch of festive gems. Welcome to Part 4 of my Christmas Film recommendations. 16. A Christmas Snow (2010) Workaholic Grinch restauranteur, Kathleen (Catherine Mary Stewart…
Welcome to Part 3 of my list of Christmas film recommendations. If you’re looking to add some new gems to your festive rotation, here’s another batch of recommendables. In no order other than thorough…
Another December day and another batch of Christmas movie recommendations. Following on from Part 1, here are another 5 festive ways to distract you from spending time with your relatives. You’re very…
January this year, my best friend was pottering around my apartment, readying for work. “So what’s on for today?” he asked me. I rolled my eyes. “What is it that you think I do all day?” I asked. He gestured…
In reducing his aggressive, sexist banter to ‘locker-room’ conversation, Donald Trump reveals a regressive and oafish masculinity.
Questioned about the Trump Tapes, VP candidate Tim Kaine said, “It makes me sick to my stomach.” It’s the kind of hyperbolic thing we all sometimes say, and yet, on this occasion Kaine actually nailed…
Hillary Clinton didn’t need more experience on the ticket, rather, had to pick someone who could compensate for her deficits.
A bomb threat delivered to LGBTIQ radio station Joy FM this week highlights how divisive, dangerous and ugly the same-sex marriage plebiscite campaign could become.
Nothing could be more personal, more intimate, than how women manage their periods. Doing so effectively can only be done with quality information.
Another life time ago, I was standing in a bathroom putting on mascara. The man I was sleeping with - who was in a long term relationship with someone who wasn’t me - stood in the doorway watching . Not…
Two things stand out about seeing Sisters last year. One, the armed guard stationed forebodingly in the foyer. (I was in the US, Star Wars opened that same weekend and cinemas seemingly had been Nostradamus-ing…
I’m a political scientist with a bit of a masochistic streak. Of course I was going to watch the Republican Convention. Of course I was going to sit through speeches by bronzed crackpots with lacklustre…
Writing of social media having a “field day” is wasted energy. Brouhahas about bullshit are a daily occurrence. There are people - evidently with more spare time than me - who are ravenously scouring content…
It might be juvenile, but scribbling a dick and balls on a ballot paper actually requires some thought. And that in turn has meaning.
Culturally most of us know that it’s inappropriate to talk about a person’s weight gain. While apparently the tabloids, gossip magazines and gutter websites missed that memo - and regularly run their pasta…
Labour market data tells me that at my age, 36, I should’ve had a portfolio of different employers by now. In my case, I’ve been with the same one since 2000. While it still feels novel to be in staff…
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