Category Archive: Film

The Purge fails on all accounts

The Purge is horrifically underwhelming, according to Somethingyousaid.com’s Tenley Nordstrom.  It was the first time that I went full-on asshole in a movie theatre. I couldn’t help myself. A last-minute decision to see… Read More

The Look of Love ticket giveaway!

Steve Coogan (Alan Partridge!), performs the lead in the true-life story of the man behind Soho’s notorious Raymond Revue Bar and Men Only magazine. Directed by Michael Winterbottom, the story tells of Paul… Read More

Top Picks of Sydney Film Festival

Here at Somethingyousaid.com we love films, love them, can’t get enough of them. Long ones, short ones, foreign ones, ones with swears, ones with bears, we love them all. So you can imagine how excited… Read More

Review: The Place Beyond The Pines

The Place Beyond the Pines follows on from Derek Cianfrance’s heartbreaker, Blue Valentine. This dark, brooding romantic tale once again features Ryan Gosling trying to make ends meet with his estranged ladyfriend. The best… Read More

Sydney Film Festival is bigger & better

The 60th Sydney Film Festival launched recently. We caught up with Festival Director Nashen Moodley to find out more: Happy 60th Birthday to Sydney Film Festival! What a milestone. How are you celebrating this in… Read More

Drift makes our attention, well, drift

Drift begins with a young family of three running away from their misogynistic, drunkard father/husband and driving interminably to end up in Western Australia’s Seacliff. They set up camp there in the small country… Read More

Marion, Let’s Sing About Sex

I thought Song For Marion would be the kind of movie I’d recommend my mother watched with her girlfriends as it seemed to be a happy-go-lucky tale about “climbing over the mountain” with… Read More

Olympus Has Fallen pretty low

Carol Bowditch discovers that she’s not a teenage boy during Olympus: This smarmy two-hour blockbuster frustrated me, not only because I needed to visit the ladies and felt like I couldn’t because I… Read More

The Hunger Games Catches Fire

The Hunger Games came in at number nine in our end-of-year review, as voted for by you. Regardless of whether this is because you’ve got a teeny weeny girl/boy crush on Jennifer Lawrence,… Read More