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The Last Showgirl – Film Review Friday
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The Last Showgirl – Film Review Friday

May 2, 2025May 5, 2025 Emma Cranby

I think I should start this review with a confession: I have not, in fact, seen the first fifteen minutes of The Last Showgirl.

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Film, film review, Film Review Fridays, Gia Coppola, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kiernan Shipka, Pamela Anderson
There’s No Business Like Show Business – Film Review Friday
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There’s No Business Like Show Business – Film Review Friday

April 25, 2025April 25, 2025 Emma Cranby

I know it’s a big claim to make of any film, let alone one made over 70 years ago whose reception can only be

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Dan Dailey, Donald O'Connor, Ethel Merman, Film, film review, Film Review Friday, Johnnie Ray, Marilyn Monroe, Mitzi Gaynor, Walter Lang
Merrigong presents Trent Dalton’s ‘Love Stories’ at IPAC
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Merrigong presents Trent Dalton’s ‘Love Stories’ at IPAC

March 4, 2025 Emma Cranby

Love, apparently, is three good things, so these are mine: my grandma, telling me she was the first person to see me when I

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IPAC, Merrigong, opinion, performance, Performing arts, Theatre
Brüno – Film Review Fridays
CULTURE Film

Brüno – Film Review Fridays

February 7, 2025 Emma Cranby

My first draft of this review went something like this: ‘Brüno is crude, bigoted, and completely insensitive, and it would be a terrible idea

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Ali G, Borat, Larry Charles, Sacha Baron Cohen
Drawing Flies – Film Review Friday
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Drawing Flies – Film Review Friday

January 3, 2025January 2, 2025 Emma Cranby

As I was working through the entirety of Kevin Smith’s View Askew series last month, I stumbled across a film I hadn’t noticed the

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Carmen Lee, Film, film review, Film Review Fridays, Jason Lee, Jason Mewes, Joey Lauren Adams, Kevin Smith, Martin Brooks, Renee Humphrey
Ratatouille – Film Review Fridays
CULTURE Film

Ratatouille – Film Review Fridays

December 20, 2024 Emma Cranby

I have never been one for animated films. I know for some people, they’re the only kind of films; studios like Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks

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Chef Gusteau, Disney, Film, film review, Film Review Fridays, Micheal Giaccino, Pixar, Ratatouille, Remy
Boy Erased – Film Review Friday
CULTURE Film

Boy Erased – Film Review Friday

December 6, 2024 Emma Cranby

Film Review – Boy Erased Here’s a fun little anecdote to get this started: in its original book form, Boy Erased is the only

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Film, film review, Film Review Friday, Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe
The Sum Of Us – Film Review Fridays
CULTURE Film

The Sum Of Us – Film Review Fridays

November 22, 2024 Emma Cranby

Not to speak too crudely, but I think it’s telling that the first words spoken on screen in 1994’s The Sum Of Us are

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Film, film review, Film Review Fridays, Jack Thompson, Russell Crowe, The Sum Of Us
My Own Private Idaho – Film Review Fridays
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My Own Private Idaho – Film Review Fridays

November 1, 2024 Emma Cranby

This Road Will Never End: An Elegy to Gus Van Sant’s ‘My Own Private Idaho’ As I write this, it’s 31 years to the

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Film, film review, Film Review Fridays, Gus Van Sant, Keanu Reeves, River Phoenix
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