Category Archive: Film

The Wolf of Wall Street – Movie Review

Celebrity guest contributor, the legendary Hugh Cornwell, reviews the latest epic from Martin Scorcese: Move over De Niro, let Leonardo take over! It looks like Martin Scorcese is running with a new pack of youngbloods… Read More

Tracks double pass movie Giveaway

Hey, remember last month when we rubbed shoulders with swoonworthy Australian actress Mia Wasikowska at the Premiere of upcoming movie Tracks? Oh, wait, did we accidentally forget to invite you? Oops. Our bad.… Read More

Mistaken for Strangers Movie Review

Highly-acclaimed indie band The National are currently touring Australia. Preview screenings of Mistaken for Strangers, a documentary shining a light on the band, are coinciding nicely with the tour. We sent Heather Vousden… Read More

The Past (Le Passé) – Movie Review

Melissa Oey reviews The Past, the newest movie from Asghar Farhadi, the director responsible for the Academy Award winning film, A Separation: After having left Marie (Bérénice Bejo) and her two daughters four years ago, Ahmad… Read More

Dallas Buyers Club – Movie Review

Matthew McConaughey’s film career started with great promise with performances in Dazed and Confused and Amistad marking him out as one-to-watch, before his career descended into a decade-long stint of leaning against his… Read More

Generation War giveaway

Thanks to our buddies at eOne Hopscotch, we’re giving away five copies of cracking television miniseries Generation War FOR FREE to our Australia based readers. Billed as a German Band of Brothers, the blockbuster miniseries vividly… Read More

Review: Flickerfest closing night

Being blessed with something of a limited attention-span, the short-film format is ideal for me. At its best, a short film is a perfectly formed nugget of cinematic brilliance – complete with compelling… Read More

Sing-A-Long-A Sound of Music giveaway!

You’d better start practising your Do-Re-Mothflipping-Mi’s because the Sing-A-Long-A Sound of Music experience is back in Sydney for three performances in February. And the most exciting this is that we’ve got a FREE DOUBLE… Read More

Movie Giveaway: Get The Rise on DVD

In conjunction with our buddies at eOne Hopscotch, we’re giving away five copies of The Rise FOR FREE to our Australia based readers. The British movie is an exhilarating, moving and often hilarious story of loyalty,… Read More

Movie Review: 12 Years a Slave

There are certain true stories that everybody knows. We’ve surely all read Anne Frank’s Diary, or at least have a reasonable knowledge of its subject-matter. Conversely, there are some you feel astonished/ashamed not… Read More

Giveaway: Win Metallica Through the Never

Something You Said is teaming up with our friends at Entertainment One Hopscotch to give away some copies of Metallica Through the Never on DVD.  The film, directed by award-winning filmmaker Nimród Antal (Predators,… Read More

Photo Gallery: Mia Wasikowska in Sydney

If the combination of the words “Mia” and “Wasikowska” doesn’t make you swoooooooon like a 1950s housewife, then you clearly have a markedly different taste in human-beings than us. We’re such fans of… Read More