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May 9, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Bret Easton Ellis: White
White Bret Easton Ellis Knopf; 1st Edition edition “Stop whining, take your medicine; grow the fuck up” – this is Bret Easton Ellis’ advice in his first effort at non-fiction; a book written to largely justify a series of individual tweets and then all-out Twitter brawls, a book that starts promisingly as actual memoir and then shifts just as surreally […]Archive
January 28, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: 2019 Schedule
Staying at Wellington’s wonderful Embassy Theatre – for 2019 – The Wellington Film Society has just recently released its full schedule for the new year. Click on that link to check out the film season which opens Monday March 4, with David Lynch’s Mullholland Drive and closes on Monday, November 25 with Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard. Screenings take place on […]Archive
December 31, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
2018: My Year in Review
Adapting. That’s the goal of the music and arts journo now. Has been the case for a few years. But never more so than right now. I started 2018 wondering if there was much point in writing or if there were any readers left for me at all even. I then decided it was about […]Archive
December 20, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Parker Posey: You’re On An Airplane
You’re On An Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir Parker Posey Blue Rider Press In the 1990s Parker Posey started appearing in movies; quirky films, funny films. She was savage or sexy or cheeky or some combination of those things – she was weird and wonderful, a little odd and a lot of wonderful. She was a […]Archive
December 13, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: muscle-memory
i was thinking the other day about how my grandfather introduced me to a lot of great films – weird films, movies not meant for me – at that age. he took me to battletruck. (i was about 6). and we saw some tarzan movie that wasn’t particularly appropriate. (i had an older brother, still […]Archive
December 6, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast # 145: Freeman White
Welcome to episode 145 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library to access each new episode; or via Anchor/FM you can get […]Archive
December 4, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Movies of My Life # 16: The Compleat Beatles
Maybe it’s because it’s hard to find and best remembered for what it represented (also: time/place) but I reckon The Compleat Beatles is the very best Beatles doco there’s ever been. It shits on The Anthology which is not terrible, but is, probably, far too much of a good thing. When The Anthology was released […]Archive
November 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
DVD Review: Jumanji Welcome To The Jungle – Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 7)
Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle Director: Jake Kasdan Columbia Pictures Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 7) Hi guys, it’s me – Oscar. I am seven now, and it’s time for a new review. As promised I’m going to talk about Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle. On one picture it says 12+ for the age – but […]Archive
October 18, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Sweetman Podcast: Episode 138 – Ross Jolly
Welcome to episode 138 of Sweetman Podcast with support from our sponsors – T Leaf T, Yeastie Boys and La Petite Chocolat. Now – as well as the usual platforms (this site, soundcloud, iTunes/Apple) you can now get to Sweetman Podcast on Spotify – follow it there and have it saved in your Spotify library to access each new episode; or […]Archive
September 30, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Wellington Film Society: Preview – Mustang (October 1)
The Wellington Film Society hits into October, meaning the end of the year is on its way…last week it was Lewat Djam Malam – shown internationally as “After The Curfew” – this week it’s Deniz Gamze Ergüven‘s Oscar-nominated first feature, Mustang. “Its emotions are universally recognizable, as is the powerful yearning of its young, female […]Archive
September 28, 2018 by Simon Sweetman