fantasy man: one woman’s experience working with noel fielding
For Bella Gray, working with Noel Fielding, flamboyant co-creator of The Mighty Boosh, still seems like a surreal dream. Employed as a buyer and costume assistant for Fielding’s latest television show, Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy, Gray dashed around London, collecting aluminium foil, glitter and neon coloured fabric – anything to support Fielding’s absurdist visual humour. [...]
Fat women in television and cinema
The other day I was browsing Tumblr when I noticed a gif from a movie that had been re-blogged by a friend of mine. The gif was from The Sitter and included the star, Jonah Hill, and the woman playing his girlfriend (or, really, the woman he wants to be his girlfriend), Ari Gaynor. The [...]
soaps and low standards
Do we have low standards? The past few weeks have had us questioning the popularity (or lack thereof) of Australian film, literature and culture generally. There’s talk of us still subscribing to ‘Cultural Cringe’, and failing to value Australian cultural products. This analysis has been largely related to film and literature, but does it apply [...]
Glee – putting the G into GQ
Recently, some cast members of Fox TV show, Glee have posed for racy photographs for GQ magazine. For the assumedly very few who don’t know, Glee is a comedy/drama set in an American high school. The characters in the ‘glee club’ are often unpopular so they use the club to find friends, and presumably find [...]
television: sookie stackhouse vs. bella swan
Lex Rosenberg, in the second installment of her ‘True Blood’ three-part special, compares the protagonist Sookie Stackhouse with ‘The Twilight Saga’s Bella Swan. May the best woman win.
my love affair with channel 10
When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships – Andy Warhol. I was a television addict. No. Seriously, I was. I knew what was on at every time of the day. I was my very own TV guide. Most days, I would ‘study’ while watching Dr Phil, [...]
television: true blood, season one
Lex Rosenberg, in the first installment of her ‘True Blood’ three-part special, reviews the first season of this delightfully sinful show.
television: five reasons why Leela kicks ass
Lex Rosenberg takes a look at Leela – Futurama’s feminist lead.
television: doctor who
Bronwyn Webber reviews the latest season of ‘Doctor Who’ – and finds that the Doctor is definitely in.
television: why i’m pro-pregnant teenage backup dancers
Lex Rosenberg looks at ‘Glee’ episode “Funky” – and discusses the point of pregnant teenage backup dancers – in the second part of her ‘Glee’ special.
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