Opinion Road

A television drama series created by David Simon, The Wire is set in Baltimore, Maryland; each season of the series focuses on a different part of the city. A group of characters, mainly in the Baltimore Police Department, appear in every season.  Quite simply the best police drama on TV. Season 1 (HBO) It starts [...]

Based on Paul Haggis’ movie of the same name, this show stars Dennis Hopping leading a troop of fresh faces.  This show had big shoes to fill, with Haggis’ original movie scoring an academy award long after I was impressed by it as a surprise DVD rental (who knew it would reach DVD before a [...]

CD of the Week! Congratulations Brent (Spod) on your new album “Superfrenz” “….what makes Superfrenz such a gloriously deranged listen is how each track has Spod leading through a magical play world of ridiculously over-hyped sexuality and pointed self-conscious reflections” http://www.spod.com.au/ (article by The Brag) spod-superfrenz-cdoftheweek.jpg

The Streets is a band I’m only now properly discovering.  This album is the type to make me want to go back and review their entire past catalogue.  Whilst the ever-present “Mockney” accent and the distinct ‘speaking singing’ style is an interesting curiosity in the ‘Dry Your Eyes Mate’ track (if for you, like me, [...]

“Ne le dis à personne” (aka “Tell No One”) The way a thriller should be.  Dynamic, and sometimes curiously flawed, characters.  Slick as any Hollywood thriller but as interweaved, broad in scope and rich as we’ve come to expect from brilliant French film industry.  Brutal, touching, mesmerizing and literally ‘on the edge of your seat’. [...]

People that know me well, know my aversion to hype and and just how easy it is to build up my expectations.  It  was with much trepidation, therefore, that I decided to see “In Bruges” – you see, on the day that I read it scored a position on the IMDB Top 250 (a significant [...]

(Miniseries, HBO) Based on the book by Evan Wright, this is a seven part series covering the invasion of Iraq (#2) during the first 40 days from the perspective of the Marines of the First Recon Battalion.  The popular media would have had us believe that the invasion was a ‘walkover’.  This series however, if [...]

I had the pleasure of using some noise canceling headphones on my business class (!) flight coming back from LA last month. I loved them (and the jammies they give you on the flight). Anyway, if you’ve entertained the notion and then suffered the sticker shock of the Bose pair ($US250), you’ll be please with [...]

Nolan’s Batman Trilogy: Update Rumours on key roles in the next instalment of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy. Philip Seymour Hoffman – right on! img98.imageshack.us/my.php?image=…

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