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Rake (2010)
Typical Australian TV
Typical Australian TV: same handful of actors regurgitated over and over like an old boys club (why was Martin Henderson cast as an American when he is incapable of delivering lines in an American tongue?); same self-consciously humorous scripts as subtle as Comic Capers – it's basically the Chaser's War minus a few farts and cream pies. When will our producers dare to lose this cringeworthy jingoism and allow our entertainment to meet world sensibilities? It's as insular as it was in 1960something. And this coming from the ABC! Unpardonable tripe. Like chucking a bucket of pigswill at the proletariat. I'm as embarrassed as I am about the Pauline Hansons and Fred Niles over this kind of stuff.
Easy Virtue (2008)
Very disappointing movie experience for someone who was so looking forward to seeing this.
Very disappointing movie experience for someone who was so looking forward to seeing this. Unauthentic character portrayals all round with not one single sympathetic character to be found. Badly rehashed writing job of what was surely brilliant in its original form. What a sad shame for Ealing Studios to have this stain against its name. SHAME on one of my favourite actresses Kristin Scott Thomas for having anything to do with this rubbish, even if she is the least awful thing in it. Colin Firth, an equally class act, should similarly stop slumming it in some of these more recent bombs he's done, as if keeping himself amused in Pantomime. When I stood up to walk out of the cinema after the first 50 minutes, the friend I was with was fast asleep. The writer/director would be well advised to stick with contemporary Aussie drag queen capers and avoid trying to play with great talents like Noel Coward. This is not even vaguely how the English class it muses about is or ever truly was, but is, rather, a short-sighted guess from a non-English director. I want my money back.