Tag Archives: Generation X
News That’s Fit To Punt – 25/Apr/2012
Trying To Slip His Peter This Peter Slipper business for the last few days has been a bit of a joke. It’s a scandal for sure, but should he resign? It’s all a bit messy, what with Andrew Wilkie out … Continue reading
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Cinema In Retreat
Another One Bites The Dust Caught this story in the SMH this morning. THE closure of the Greater Union cinema in Mosman comes as further proof of troubles in the Australian film industry. While local filmmakers find it difficult to … Continue reading
Greenberg
Gen-X Losers Not everybody wins in life. It kind of sucks when somebody who won rubs it in, but there you go. There but for the grace of god go all of us in all walks of life, and nobody … Continue reading
Today’s Guff – 03/Aug/2010
Warring Demographics Us Gen-X types, we’re really cynical because we got to see what the Babyboomers got an then had it deprived from us. For a moment, we won’t buy into what the government is going to propagandise. ‘Moving Forward’? … Continue reading
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Hawke-Keating Remembered
A Lively Week Of Political Nostalgia If there’s one thing that’s wrong about nostalgia is that we’re always misremembering things, and passing on to succeeding generations something in a process that can only be described as Chinese whispers. History is … Continue reading
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Movie Doubles – ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ & ‘Better Off Dead’
1980s Nostalgia, Generation X Wasteland O-o-o-okay. Today’s movie doubles links two films through the prism of John Cusack movies, skiing, and the 1980s. Since ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ explicitly goes back to 1986, it started to ring bells in my … Continue reading
Generations
The Demographics Say Cinema Declines Pleiades sent me an article from the Financial Review about the decline of Hollywood. Hollywood is facing 2 problems at once. The first problem is that it can no longer secure capital to make films … Continue reading
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