Category Archive: Film

Three Movies that Define Inspiration

The definition of inspiration is the stimulation of the mind or emotions to a high level of feeling or activity. Guest writer for somethingyousaid.com Olan Ahern, kept this firmly in his mind when choosing a… Read More

The Tenderness of Rust And Bone

Carol Bowditch checked out Rust and Bone, a harrowing tale about overcoming major adversity and the trials of real, modern relationships.  Ali (Matthias Schoenaerts) is self-sufficient and has a new woman to fulfill his needs every… Read More

Performance For The Mature At Heart

Carol Bowditch got her classical on to check out Performance: The film’s premise is based around a string quartet who are still performing together after 25 years of music and friendship. The beloved… Read More

Goddess is a sweet mood-lifter

Carol Bowditch wandered the red carpet and rubbed shoulders with Ronan Keating and Magda Szubanski at the World Premiere of Goddess. Here’s what she thought of the movie: The first scene of this film sets… Read More

Oz can put a smile on your dial

Josephine Rozenberg-Clarke checks out the latest movie to be inspired by L.Frank Baum’s novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: I should start this review by revealing two things about me: 1. I am… Read More

Brighton Festival + Flaming Lips = win

We love Brighton, here at Somethingyousaid.com. It’s a vibrant, exciting city with an exhilarating music and arts scene, so when the Brighton Festival comes around, we’re always mad keen to check it out. This… Read More

Get Tasered at Tropfest this Sunday

With Tropfest happening this weekend, all across Australia, we have a conversation with Matt Bird about being a three-time finalist: In 1993, in a little Sydney café called Tropicana, John Polson decided to… Read More

I Give It a Year Ticket Giveaway!

From the producers of Notting Hill, Bridget Jones’s Diary and Love Actually, I Give It a Year stars the beeeyuutiful Rose Byrne and Rafe Spall as Nat and Josh, a mismatched couple navigating… Read More

The year’s most plain bonkers movie

Neil Martin has a look at John Dies at The End. It takes him on quite the ride: This has got cult classic written all over it. Cult horror movie director Don Coscarelli (Phantasm,… Read More

Our Oscar 2013 predictions

It’s that time of year again, when the Oscar nominations come out and we stick our necks on the line by saying who and what we think will win the awards. Putting money… Read More

Shirley you can’t be serious?

Bobby Townsend puts his seat in an upright position and stows his tray table: Next week, I’m spending 27 hours on a plane from Sydney to the UK. I know some people hate… Read More

Happy New Year from Something You Said

What a great year it’s been. We launched this site in August and it has gone from strength to strength since then, due to a lot of hard work from our team the… Read More