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But Is It Comedy? Chris Lilley’s Angry Boys
The first step in reviewing something is to successfully identify what it is. Start complaining that Zoolander isn’t taking seriously the plight of child labourers in the fashion industry and people probably aren’t going to bother with whatever else you have to say. So it’s tempting to … Read more
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But Is It Comedy? Chris Lilley’s Angry Boys
The first step in reviewing something is to successfully identify what it is. Start complaining that Zoolander isn’t taking seriously the plight of child labourers in the fashion industry and people probably aren’t going to bother with whatever else you have to say. So it’s tempting to … Read more
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Comedy Festival Giveaway – Victoria Healy, ‘For the Experience’
If you are overwhelmed and nonplussed by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival program, we’re here to help you out. Killings has four double passes to give away to Victoria Healy’s ‘For the Experience’. Passes are good for the night of Saturday 16 April. For your chance to … Read more
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Clementine Ford’s ‘A Bitter Pill to Swallow: Being on the Dole, Again’
‘Luck is what happens when opportunity meets preparation.’ My mother was fond of this quote. She was also fond of that one about success being ninety-nine per cent perspiration and one per cent inspiration, and the one about doors and windows and imaginary men. Unfortunately, the only … Read more
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Film Review: Please Give
Please Give, Nicole Holofcener’s most recent film, opens with a panoply of breasts. They offer themselves unabashed, fragmented in montage, for scrutiny and appraisal. The array is set to The Roches’ self-deprecating tune ‘No Shoes,’ and the track’s wittily constructed catalogue of grievances (‘I had no shoes … Read more
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Review: Chris Morris’s Four Lions
Directed and conceived by Chris Morris, and written with Peep Show creators Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, Four Lions follows a group of British-born Muslims planning a series of suicide bombings during the London Marathon. This might not initially strike you as gold for comedy, but anyone … Read more
