Thinking pop culture
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I’ve never been a fan of the phrase “jumped the shark”. Not because I think it’s overused - although I definitely think it is - but I find the premise a bit stupid. In brief, it comes from the 1977 Happy…
My day started out happily with some accidental comedy. On the tram I saw a man who I thought was perhaps the most gorgeous I’d seen. I kept staring - curious, because I’m never attracted to strangers…
It’s not spoiling anything to reveal that the crux of Looper is that Little Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Big Joe (Bruce Willis) meet: it’s a) the reason for Gordon-Levitt’s stupid facial prosthetics…
Saturday night, the credits rolled and my companion turned to me and said, “So what did you think?” My head still shaking in dismay, I replied, “It reminded me of the first film I made.” I then started…
Daily, my mum’s cousin devours Il Globo. Not for the articles - I’m not entirely sure she can read Italian - but for the death notices. And regularly, excitedly, she’ll call Mum with the “untimely” deaths…
As far as flavours of the month go, this is one I can delight in. One I can Turkish delight in. Boom boom. Waiting for Taken 2 to start and there was a preview for the new Bond film, Skyfall. Filmed in…
Mid 20s HR professional Catherine finds herself in the perfect relationship. Hunky Lee is gorgeous and devoted and protective. Apparently he’s everything a woman could want in a bloke. At least until he…
Courtney Cox shocked America in 1985 when she became the first person to say “period” on TV. Period, at least, in the context of menstruation and not punctuation. Flash forward a couple of decades and…
My favourite Freudian idea is omnipotence of thought. It explains everything from superstition to lucky charms to OCD and it’s what’s “new” about cash cows like The Secret. That our thoughts are powerful…
I’m relatively convinced that it’s comparison that’s at the root of all unhappiness. Comparisons wreck relationships and equally do they ruin pop culture. I’m voracious when it comes to films, to books…