I really wanted to like the Aussie crime flick Animal Kingdom, and I almost succeeded. In the end, though, I found the movie more admirable than actually likeable. Centred around a family of bank robbers and sociopaths in a Melbourne suburb, it paints a thoroughly bleak and unromantic picture of the criminal life, full of…
Month: August 2010
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
I don’t really approve of criticizing movie adaptations for how they failed to live up to one’s personal connection to the source material. Having said that, Scott Pilgrim really failed to live up to my connection to the source material. I love the books, published as a series of six manga-sized graphic novels. The books…
Melbourne and back
suit, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Melbourne is the first Australian city I’ve visited where I really thought I could live. Lest that come off snobby, let me explain. Well, yes, I’m a snob but really? Sydney? Canberra? Sydney is too big and freeway-strewn and aggro, and Canberra is just kind of weird with…