by Dave Bradley | May 18, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Tori Amos (Hachette Australia) 2020, 261pp, Hardback $35.00/eBook $14.99 Singer, songwriter, bestselling author, and social commentator Amos’ follow-up to Tori Amos: Piece By Piece demonstrates that she’s still a formidable force at 56 and after 15 studio albums and a...
by Dave Bradley | Mar 31, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Graham Moore (Hachette Australia) 2020, 322pp, paperback $32.99, eBook $14.99. Novelist and screenwriter Moore (who won the Oscar for his adapted screenplay for The Imitation Game) here tries his hand at a legal thriller, and while he’s obviously worked hard to make...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 9, 2020 | Book, Books, Reviews
Billy Connolly (Hachette Australia) 2019, 330pp, RRP $45.00 (hardback) The latest volume from Billy (a.k.a. ‘The Big Yin’) isn’t a proper autobiography – something we could well do with – but a selection of old routines and anecdotes, some of which he...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 23, 2019 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock/Cinema Cult, Rated M, 80 minutes. (Flashback DVD Review) The original 1956 grandpappy of the ‘pod people’ sci-fi/horror subgenre, this beloved, film-noir-esque cult classic was directed by Don Siegel (before his collaborations with Clint Eastwood including Dirty...
by Dave Bradley | Dec 23, 2019 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock/Cinema Cult, Rated M, 89 minutes. (Flashback DVD Review) This love-letter to the Golden Age of Universal Monsters wasn’t a hit when released in 1987 but has become quite a cult pic, and despite its dated, awesomely-‘80s look, there’s still much here to enjoy,...