2017
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Man -Up Malcolm Turnball
The right-wing Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is trying to dodge the inevitability of making same-sex legal in his country by passing the buck. Instead of just passing a law that he has the power to do, he has set up a postal vote, which is informal and not regulated by any law. asking the…
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Becks
A rather compelling Tony Award Winner Lena Hall in her first starring role in a movie, makes this rather cute musical a much more entertaining experience than one may have otherwise expected from what is a somewhat very predictable drama. Hall plays Becks an aspiring musician who packs up her life in New York…
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Viceroy’s House
Gurinder Chadha’s well intended but rather stilted epic period drama about how the British badly managed their withdrawal from India exactly 70 years ago, lands in movie theaters at a time when the UK is now making rather a mess at leaving Europe too. In telling the tale of how Britain ended up splitting India…
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Paul Freeman’s Australian Working Men Exposed
According to Websters dictionary a ‘larrikan yakka’ is an Australian term for a ‘boisterous, often badly behaved young man who does hard physical work’. In this new superb book by acclaimed photographer PAUL FREEMAN these particular muscular rugged larrikans have just finished work and are in a state of undress presumably to start the…
