Sex and the City
What is left when they strip off the laugh track from a TV show? In the case of Sex and the City, not much.
View ArticleSecretary
Every few years there's a winner at Sundance Film Festival that becomes an instant indie classic and Secretary is right up there with Steven Soderbergh's 1989 classic Sex, Lies and Videotape. The fact...
View ArticleBalzac And The Little Seamstress
Remarkably little literature has come through from the terrible days of the Madame Mao inspired 'little red book' revolution of the third decade of Mao Tse Tung's access to power over that greatest of...
View ArticleJonathan Dawson's Film Reviews
Jonathan Dawson and Tim Cox chat about schools, shopping and the easy life.
View ArticleLetters to Juliet
It's a darling of a movie and, yet again, cynicism is denied and the power of the romantic comedy overpowers sense, critique and history.
View ArticleJonathan Dawson's Film Review
Jonathan reviews this week in films and chats about Shakespeare festivals around the world.
View ArticleJonathan Dawson's Film Review
Jonathan is back to review the latest at the movies, including The Town, Eat, Prey, Love and Summer Coda.
View ArticleTamara Drewe
This is brilliant social and literary satire, wondrously funny and with a terrific ensemble cast set in scenery as lovely and ironically idyllic as anyone could wish for.
View ArticleJonathan Dawson's Film Review
Jonathan Dawson reviews Tamara Drewe and The Company Men.
View ArticleJonathan Dawson's Film Review
Jonathan Dawson gives an entertaining review of Kiss Me Again and Tasmania's 10 Days on the Island festival.
View ArticleNever Let Me Go
This intricate, elegiac film is a heartbreaker, telling of doomed love, medicine gone mad with power (whatever happened to "first do no harm"?) and beautifully acted by the three principals.
View ArticleJonathan Dawson's Film Reviews
Today Jonathan Dawson reviews a short film made in Tasmania which was voted audience favourite at the queer festival.
View ArticleWater for Elephants
Love, a beautiful and intelligent heffalump, gorgeous looking folks make for a touchingly old fashioned tale.
View ArticleJonathan Dawson Film Review
Jonathan Dawson reviewed a film called Water for Elephants, a romantic movie set in a circus in the 1930's depression era.
View ArticleJonathan Dawson's review of Tabloid
Tabloid is about a one-time Wyoming beauty queen called Joyce McKinney who dreamed the American dream in a big way and then lived it out as a Jackie Collins novel!
View ArticleJonathan Dawson's best films of 2011
Every week Jonathan Dawson gives an entertaining review of several films- but what's really tickled his fancy? Here's a list of his favourites from 2011.
View ArticleThe Rum Diary
Everyone has a ball, for The Rum Diary is one of the truly great psychedelic movies of the modern era, a tribute to all involved.
View ArticleJonathan Dawson's Fim Review Podcast - 11th October 2012
Jonathan Dawson takes us on the trail of 'the Sugarman', a musician lost in the mist of the 70's and 80's.
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