Category: Film & TV

Film Review: Expendables 2

Film Review: Expendables 2

| 30 August , 2012 | Reply

Directed by: Simon West Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarznegger, Bruce Willis, Jason Stratham, Liam Hemsworth Sassi’s Star Rating: 4/5 (I know… but keep reading) Girls, girls, girls! If the man in your life drags you along to this movie kicking and screaming, then by all means you can make a fuss, but when you get [...]

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Film Review: Chinese Take-Away

Film Review: Chinese Take-Away

| 30 August , 2012 | 1 Reply

Directed by: Sebastián Borensztein Written by: Sebastián Borensztein Starring: Ricardo Darín, Muriel Santa Ana, Ignacio Huang Sassi’s Star Rating: 4/5 A delightful Argentinean film, Chinese Take-away will bring a smile to your face. A cheerful, young Chinese man’s world is turned upside down when his fiancée dies unexpectedly (and unfortunately somewhat comically). Half a world [...]

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Film Review: Finding Nemo 3D

Film Review: Finding Nemo 3D

| 30 August , 2012 | Reply

Directed by: Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich Written by: Andrew Stanton, Bob Peterson, David Reynolds Starring: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould Sassi’s Star Rating: 4.5/5 Whether or not you’ve seen Nemo before, Finding Nemo 3D will have you diving into an ocean of adventure. A neurotic clownfish named Marlin (Albert Brooks), is forced out of his [...]

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DVD Review: Margin Call

DVD Review: Margin Call

| 28 August , 2012 | Reply

Directed by: J.C Chandor Starring: Demi Moore, Simon Baker, Paul Bettany, Penn Badgley, Kevin Spacey, Stanley Tucci Sassi’s Star Rating: 4/5 It must be one sweet sense of validation to wait fifteen years for your directorial break, and then to walk away from it with an Oscar nomination. At least that’s what I like to [...]

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Film Review:Total Recall

Film Review:Total Recall

| 24 August , 2012 | Reply

Directed by: Len Wiseman Starring: Colin Farrell, Bokeem Woodbine, Bryan Cansten, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel Sassi’s Star Rating: 4/5 What is real is the question in this action sci-fi thriller that wowed audiences when it first exploded onto the scene back in 1990 with Arnold Schwarznegger and Sharon Stone. This updated version brought to you [...]

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Airdate Confirmed for Project Runway Australia Season 4 With the Return of Megan Gale & Alex Perry

Airdate Confirmed for Project Runway Australia Season 4 With the Return of Megan Gale & Alex Perry

| 23 August , 2012 | Reply

Season Four of Project Runway Australia returns to our screens with the return of Megan Gale alongside Alex Perry, Peter Morrissey and Claudia Navone. This season we can expect to see some of the most talented designers the series has ever seen and a new judging panel of fashion experts including Toni Maticevski, Alexandra and [...]

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Film Review: Hope Springs

Film Review: Hope Springs

| 23 August , 2012 | Reply

Directed by: David Frankel Written by: Vanessa Taylor Starring: Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones, Steve Carell Sassi’s Star Rating: 3/5 After 31 years of marriage, the passion has fled, the separate bedrooms are permanent and Kay is just about to give up. Her husband Arnold (Tommy Lee Jones) sees nothing wrong with their arrangement, but [...]

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Film Review: Bully – A Must See for Everyone

Film Review: Bully – A Must See for Everyone

| 23 August , 2012 | Reply

Directed by: Lee Hirsch Starring: Alex, Ja’Maya, Kelby, David Long, Tina Long, Kirk Smalley, Laura Smalley Sassi’s Star Rating: 5/5 A young child is taken out of class and asked by a school staff member how it feels when other kids bully him. The soft-spoken reply from this young boy, ‘it breaks my heart,’ will [...]

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Theatre Review: Dog Sees God, Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead

Theatre Review: Dog Sees God, Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead

| 23 August , 2012 | 1 Reply

Directed by: David Cuthbertson, Vashti Pontaks Written by: Bert V. Royal Starring: Michael Arvithis, Amylee Bliss, Georgia Brindley, Michael Brindley, Stephanie King, Adam Marks, Joshua Morton and Sophia Scarpellino Sassi’s Star Rating: 3/5 Snoopy died of rabies, Pig-pen is now a germaphobe, and if you don’t appreciate the irony then you obviously weren’t a fan [...]

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DVD Review: A Dangerous Method

DVD Review: A Dangerous Method

| 21 August , 2012 | Reply

Directed by: David Cronenberg Written by: Christopher Hampton, John Kerr Starring: Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen Sassi’s Star Rating: 3/5 In A Dangerous Method, Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) suffers from hysteria and is sent to hospital in 1904. Her doctor, Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender), eventually leads her down the path of sanity, psychology, and [...]

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TV Tonight: GCB (Good Christian Belles or B!@$%*S if You Please) Premieres on Channel 7

TV Tonight: GCB (Good Christian Belles or B!@$%*S if You Please) Premieres on Channel 7

| 20 August , 2012 | Reply

If you could right your wrongs from the past would you?  Channel 7′s new program GCB (based on Kim Gatlin’s hit book, Good Christian Bitches) premieres tonight and poses this very question to the audience. GCB’s characters show us that gossip in mid-western America IS queen and explores the relationships between mother and daughter across three [...]

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