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Saturday May 19th 2012

‘What We're Watching’ Archives

Total crap 80’s song explained

Total crap 80’s song explained

Ahh, it was the 80's Gen Xers and even way back, with all the wisdom of a 17 year old, I hated Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart. Went on and on with more flowy stuff than a Kate Bush clip and more big hair than Poison. So thankfully some [...]

Banker caught perving at Miranda Kerr

Banker caught perving at Miranda Kerr

Just in case you've been hiding under a rock this last week, here is the video of the banker caught perving at naked Miranda Kerr pix while a collegue is doing a live news cross.  Check out the look on his face when he realises what's [...]

Clever Google

Clever Google

While we get the Super Bowl broadcast here in Aus, we don't get the mega million dollar ads.  But fortunately we still have YouTube.  So here is my favourite 2010 Super Bowl ad courtesy of our good friends at Google. I think its beauty is [...]

Rick Rulz, OK

Rick Rulz, OK

Gen X girls loved Rick Astley.  In hindsight, why?  Click here to see what we were listening to 1987.

Cougar Barbie

Cougar Barbie

Cougar Town starts this week on Australian TV.  So let's have Barbie, the woman with her finger on the pulse of all that is hip and happening (she's been an astronaut for heaven's sake) have the final say on behalf of cougars [...]

58 looks like this!

58 looks like this!

Hollywood celebrities put a fair bit of pressure on we ordinary folk with their ageless look, perfect bodies, coiffed hair, but we can always remind ourselves that they have to look like this to have a career and also take comfort in the fact that [...]

Nine out of 100

Nine out of 100

I am having the worst run with movies lately. Last week I took myself to see Nine, potential Oscar nominee, full of Oscar winners actors (Daniel Day-Lewis, Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Marion Cotillard et al), sounds good doesn't it? Well it [...]

What’s going on in Home and Away?

What’s going on in Home and Away?

My life's complete, Home and Away is back on for the year. Oh how I've missed you. But Summer Bay is not as I remember it. There are all these big landscape shots of the hospital which is as big as Rockhampton Base Hospital. Perhaps they're [...]

Up in the Air is all hot air

Up in the Air is all hot air

Have you noticed the lack of quality movies around this year? Last year it was all Slumdog Millionaire, Milk, Frost Nixon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Revolutionary Road and The Reader. Actually it was an embarrassment of riches and I was [...]

It was pretty shit, Sherlock

It was pretty shit, Sherlock

Hankering for a night at the flicks, I took the boy to a man friendly movie--Sherlock Holmes.  Love Robert Downey Jnr, love that cheating cad Jude Law, love Sherlock Holmes, the cleverest detective in town (or London anyway) and love, love, love [...]

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