PODCAST: Plato’s Cave – February 4th

In our first show for 2013, the Plato’s Cave team critically analyse the recently released Silver Linings Playbook, Django Unchained, and Zero Dark Thirty. Plato’s Cave – February 4th Episode (.MP3)

PODCAST: ABC 774 – January 25th

In this week’s Friday Film, I chat to Lindy Burns about director Quentin Tarantino and some of the controversy surrounding the release of Django Unchained on Drive with Lindy Burns on 774 ABC Melbourne. ABC 774 – January 25th Episode (.MP3)

PODCAST: Plato’s Cave – June 25th

In this week’s episode the Plato’s Cave team review Brave, Elena and Snow White and the Huntsman, plus we discuss representations of ‘warrior women’ in cinema. With Josh Nelson, Tara Judah and Thomas Caldwell. Plato’s Cave – June 25th Episode (.MP3)

REVIEW: RocknRolla

With the release of RocknRolla, his fifth cinematic feature, director Guy Ritchie seems to have acquired the wisdom of a director firmly committed to the mantra, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’. After the relative critical and commercial success of Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000), Ritchie’s career subsequently nose-dived […]

FEATURE: Tarantino Comes of Age

Sixteen years and five films after the release of Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino is finally beginning to prove that as a filmmaker he’s no mere fly-by-night trend hopper or one-trick pop-culture pony. If anything, with the release of his latest film Death Proof, the man once credited with bringing hyper-violence back into Hollywood, has begun […]