7/5/08 - Added a whole lot of Odds and Ends posts, starting here.

5/4/08 - Added Horton Hears a Who!

4/4/08 - Thoughts on the importance of location in movies.

29/3/08 - We have a Tintin.

14/3/08 - Miscellaneous Round-Up on Odds and Ends.

13/3/08 - Added Is Film Theory Bullshit?

16/2/08 - Added 2001: A Space Odyssey.

15/2/08 - Added the trailer for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

3/2/08 - Added Cloverfield.

26/1/08 - Thoughts on some big franchises.

6/1/08 - The Darjeeling Limited.

30/12/07 - Rescue Dawn and Enchanted.

29/12/07 - Bee Movie.

16/12/07 - Eagle vs Shark.

11/12/07 - The new Indiana Jones poster looks a lot like an old one.

8/12/07 - Detailed coverage of Beowulf, here and here.

29/10/07 - Comments on close and choppy editing in action films.

15/10/07 - Some thoughts on Blade Runner, prompted by the release of the new version.

18/9/07 - A quick Indiana Jones update.

17/9/07 - Added Ratatouille.

9/9/07 - Added a spruced-up Review Idex, that is now more consistent with the design already used for the In Depth and Essay Pages.

8/9/07 - Added Dr Plonk and spruced up the front page a bit (by adding an image link to the most recent story).

26/8/07 - Thoughts on the trailer for Beowulf.

20/8/07 - More on MIFF.

6/8/07 - Added some thoughts on The Goodies and debates about high vs low in cinema.

30/7/07 - My review of The Simpsons Movie and the first of my MIFF updates.

24/7/07 - My thoughts on the new Harry Potter book.

21/7/07 - My schedule at the Melbourne International Film Festival. I have also started adding tags to the Odds and Ends pages.

17/7/07 - No, I haven't disapparated. Here's Harry Potter.

23/6/07 - Indiana Jones is back (with an explanation for my recent absence).

5/6/07 - The page is ten years old. Jeepers.

3/6/07- I take a side in a format war!

28/5/07 - Added a quick nod to a good article by David Bordwell and others on sequels.

26/5/07 - Added a note on the 30th anniversary of Star Wars and on the changing nature of long tracking shots.

20/5/07 - Tintin!

15/5/07 - Added a review of Michael Barrier's The Animated Man.

10/5/07 - Added Pulp Muppets and The Trademark Infringiest Place on Earth.

7/5/07 - Added Spider-man 3 and the Crudtastic 4.

29/4/07 - Added Tideland and All Bodyguard, All the Time.

25/4/07 - The new Harry Potter trailer.

21/4/07 - Because it's been several weeks since I've written about Star Wars: A Cutting Room Floor a Long Time Ago.

16/4/07 - Added Sunshine.

7/4/07 - Here, under protest, is Beef Burgers.

1/4/07 - Added McCabe & Mrs Miller.

14/3/07 - As promised: Hot Fuzz.

13/3/07 - A new low for The Age website. Hot Fuzz review tomorrow, I promise.

25/2/07 - Added a review of Rocky Balboa, and brief thoughts on the 1/2 Hour News Hour and James Cameron's grave-robbing.

19/2/07 - Quick thoughts on 24 and torture.

17/2/07 - Added thoughts on the Animated Feature Oscar and the Lego Ultimate Collector Series Millenium Falcon.

12/2/07 - Added Little Children, and brief thoughts on Ward Kimball's Escalation and the trailer for Hot Fuzz.

3/2/07 - Odds and Ends - a great joke about Darth Vader and James Earl Jones, and Roman Polanski's next film.

28/1/07 - Added The Thin Blue Line and Trumping Kane.

21/1/07 - Added They're Coming to Get You Barbara.

14/1/07 - Shocked myself a little with how much I didn't like Happy Feet.

8/1/07 - Added Rififi.

2/1/07 - Added What I Want for Christmas Next Year and restored my lego that got lost in the move.

24/12/06 - Added The Daily Grind.

21/12/06 - Added Die Hungry.

20/12/06 - Added Flushed Away. Starting last week and continuing progressively across coming updates, I am adding Google Search throughout the site.

9/12/06 - Added The Monkey Remark.

7/12/06 - Added Casino Royale and a discussion of what it means for the future of the Bond character.

4/12/06 - Added Time to Leave.

30/11/06 - Very major revamp, and added Mad Max.

3/11/06 - Minor updates to links (most notably listing TV Guidance).

1/11/06 - Back from holiday, and I've posted my extended essay on Realism in Animation that originally appeared (in slightly different form) in the 2004 Animation Journal. I've also added a brief link to commemorate the coining of the term "dorkofascist."

28/8/06 - One of my bigger design upgrades. It's still not 100% there: I want to integrate Odds & Ends - the new name for the R&R pages - fully into the site, but after struggling with Blogger's template software, have given up on that for the moment.

21/8/06 - My contribution to a blog-a-thon saluting Friz Freleng.

19/8/06 - A belated wrap-up of my less intensive second week at MIFF.

6/8/06 - Thoughts on my own experience of week one of the Melbourne International Film Festival.

24/6/06 - Some comments on rebooting Star Trek.

21/6/06 - Attack of the Drones and Virtual Brando.

12/6/06 - Added Cars.

11/6/06 - Added Network.

5/6/06 - Updated Movies They've Messed With.

1/6/06 - A quick heads-up a about a very interesting essay on the Clampett / Jones rivalry.

22/5/06 - Added some commentary on Oliver Stone's World Trade Centre and the new Star Wars DVDs.

3/5/06 - Latest Trailers.

30/4/06 - Sorry for my absence: a busy time at my day job has kept me away. A couple of R & R posts: one on Tex Avery and his great short Bad Luck Blackie, and a quick heads-up about the poster and trailer for Casino Royale.

29/3/06 - Added an essay about Pauline Kael.

18/3/06 - Silliness: Get This to the Boys in Marketing.

12/3/06 - After a few days of tinkering with the site's design, I've finally added a brief recap of the Oscars.

5/3/06 - Changed the colour scheme of the front page (and all the other "black" pages) to be a little easier on the eye.

4/3/06 - Revamped the In Depth and Rantings and Ravings pages.

19/2/06 - Added Brokeback Mountain.

16/2/06 - Linked to the excellent Brokeback to the Future parody trailer.

10/2/06 - Housekeeping: provided a much-needed revamp of the links and updated my bio.

8/2/06 - Added a review of Munich, a link to my essay on Steven Spielberg at Senses of Cinema, and some comments on Good Night and Good Luck and political filmmaking.

2/2/06 - Added some information about the publication of Will Brooker's book The Blade Runner Experience (to which I contributed) to the front page. Click here for more information.

23/1/06 - Another Brokeback Mountain editorial. After this I leave the conservatives to it. Also, some brief ruminations: thoughts on the death of Norm McCabe, and the possible sale of Pixar to Disney.

21/1/06 - Added some thoughts on Fred Nile's attack on Brokeback Mountain.

15/1/06 - Added some commentary on the collaboration between Andy Serkis and Weta Digital on King Kong.

8/1/06 - I've had a Christmas break from the page, but not from writing: check back (or use the RSS feed to subscribe) for links to a major piece of work in the next few weeks. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy some belated thoughts on both the 1933 and 2006 versions of King Kong. There should be further Kong related commentary here around the middle of the week.

13/12/05 - Added The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

5/12/05 - Thoughts on the ABC's My Favourite Film list.

4/12/05 - Added Independent Cinema - The New V ! @ G R @, a look at the influence of digital technology on independent cinema.

10/11/05 - Some thoughts on preview footage from King Kong.

2/11/05 - Added a review of Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation.

24/10/05 - Added a review of Wait Means Never (Winner of Best Picture at the 2005 Melbourne Underground Film Festival) and some thoughts on Daniel Craig's casting as James Bond.

23/10/05 - The things you notice when cartoons turn up on DVD.

17/10/05 - Much to my surprise, I find myself writing about the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels.

11/10/05 - Added an appreciation of Bob Clampett.

1/10/05 - Added some comments on failed Roald Dahl collaborations, and the film remake of Gilligan's Island.

19/9/05 - Added my special feature on Mondovino (courtesy of Luke Buckmaster's In Film Australia, where it first appeared), consisting of a review and an in-depth interview with director Jonathan Nossiter.

11/9/05 - Added Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.

8/9/05 - Added a double review covering both Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Willy Wonka & the Choccolate Factory.

29/8/05 - Added The General.

15/8/05 - Added Kung Fu Hustle and some comments on good and bad trailers.

13/8/05 - Added a review of Tom Shone's book Blockbuster, and in the process considerably revamped the whole book review section. I have also updated the post about the Looney Tunes DVDs to note that Wave 2 has now been announced. I'd like to take credit for this, but fear that might be overestimating my clout.

7/8/05 - Added some thoughts on Wartime Filmmaking, and a run-down of some of the great cartoons not yet released by Warner Bros Australia.

3/8/05 - Added The Graduate.

30/705 - Added some comments on the latest happenings at Disney.

28/7/05 - Sorry for the lack of updates, which has been caused by a trip away, a computer problem which lost some updates last week, and incessant page tinkering. I have revamped the front page, making the last update the shortest lived major design change in the site's history. My main concern with the new design is that those viewing on lower resolutions may get ugly formatting: please let me know if you have any trouble. After much soul-searching, I am also trialling Google ads on the front page: as much as I like being ad-free, it would be nice to get some income, however modest, from this whole business. I may yet take them down: I'll see how they go.

9/7/05 - Added some thoughts on Indiana Jones IV. You might notice the front page has been revamped slightly, mainly to get a little more prominence to some otherwise obscure content. I have also ironed out most of the problems with the Rumours and Ruminations page that the recent changes at blogspot caused. Please let me know if there are any display peculiarities either here or over at the R&R pages that I should be aware of.

1/7/05 - Added War of the Worlds.

19/6/05 - Are movies getting better or worse? I ponder this question here, and also take a look at some world cinema from the seventies.

12/6/05 - Added some discussion of the All-Time Top 100 movies, as well as the difficulties of listing movie-making "worsts."

7/6/05 - Just a note that a version of my Star Wars essay referred to directly below was in today's Age.

29/5/05 - Added Nobody Knows, and Only a Conservative Deals in Absolutes, an essay on the politics of Star Wars. I also archived one of the better Rumours and Ruminations posts, Stallonezegger, to the In Depth Page. I will be doing this with the better posts from now on, so that you don't have to hunt through the blog page too much for my better pieces.

19/5/05 - Added Revenge of the Sith. George Lucas has made an excellent Star Wars movie. Who knew such things were still possible?

15/5/05 - More on Joe Grant.

10/5/05 - Cinephobia now has an RSS feed, and I added the best review yet to my list of Revenge of the Sith reviews. You have to read this one.

8/5/05 - Comments upon the death of Joe Grant, and a disturbing new revelation.

6/5/05 - More Revenge of the Sith reviews.

28/4/05 - Kevin Smith has reviewed Revenge of the Sith and Warners are rethinking Loonatics.

22/4/05 - Added some thoughts on M.J. Simpson's already infamous review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

17/4/05 - Added The Sea Inside.

6/4/05 - Thoughts on the new Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and an early short film of Jim Reardon's: Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown.

5/4/05 - A bit of a design revamp for the site, with a more elegant treatment for links and a slicker look for the "white" (text-based) pages, such as the reviews.

30/3/05 - Added Bambi.

28/3/05 - Not sure if the world really needed a side-by-side comparison of the careers of Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger, but here it is anyway. Plus, a couple of days ago, I posted this silly link.

23/3/05 - Thoughts on movie lists and various forms of MASH.

18/3/05 - Comments on the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and Revenge of the Sith trailers. Oh, and the War of the Worlds trailer also.

14/3/05 - Later than expected, but finally up: The Aviator.

3/3/05 - Thoughts on Scorsese, the Aviator, and the Best Director Oscar. My proper review of The Aviator should follow this weekend.

26/2/05 - More comments on Casino Royale, as well as a Lego model even I think is strange.

20/2/05 - Revamped my Top Ten, adding links from that page to my reviews, putting a few new movies in the runner-up list, and changing one movie in the ten itself.

19/2/05 - Despite my comment below, I couldn't lay off commenting on the attempt to "re-imagine" Bugs Bunny.

15/2/05 - Spruced up the front page. Gone is the old logo, which I never really liked (I'm not so vain that I really wanted a logo based on my eyes). I hope the new version should be a bit more cinema-specific while still echoing the old look. I've also added headlines for the Rumours and Ruminations page to the sidebar, underneath the contents. Despite the recent trend in my posts, I am not planning to turn the site into a defacto blog, with the Ruminations page supplanting the more traditional reviews: unless there's something particularly compelling to ruminate on, my next post should be a proper review. Having said that, I've added a few words on the second DVD of The Goodies to that page.

5/2/05 - Added thoughts on the announcement of Casino Royale as the next Bond film to the new-look Rumours and Ruminations page.

29/1/05 - I've been fiddling around with the Rumours and Ruminations page, and have tried hosting it as a blog. I'm not into blogging - I'd rather focus on a structured, in-depth site like this, and don't want to become a slave to daily posts (as much as I'd love to post more often). But the architecture of the blog seems to fit that corner of my site, so I'm giving it a go. I've updated it with posts on The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and the announcement of the title crawl for The Revenge of the Sith.

17/1/05 - Added Sideways.

3/1/05 - The Incredibles is finally out in Australia. Rejoice, then go see it.

21/11/04 - It has been some time since I added a new review to the page, but hopefully the in-depth essay / review of Dr No I've added today will make amends.

4/11/04 - Updated Movies They've Messed With to cover the new Star Wars DVDs, made small changes to the RAQ, and added a cry from the heart to the front page about the US election. No, this is is not a political site, but this is too much.

24/10/04 - Regular visitors to the page will note that there hasn't been any new content since August. Unfortunately, I've been working on other things, which has prevented me giving the page the attention I would like. It has also been a particularly non-compelling few months at the Australian box-office. However, I do note that  Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate is getting a revival at Melbourne's Astor cinema, so I thought I might pull my old review up and on to the front page. Cheating, I know. I've also added new links that you might want to check out - links that update regularly.

11/8/04 - Added Fahrenheit 9/11 and did a little housekeeping.

3/2/04 - Updated Movies They've Messed With to include details of the new version of Alien and updates on the DVD status of Aliens (good news) and Touch of Evil (bad news).

27/1/04 - Added a book review, of John Bengtson's Silent Echoes.

14/1/04 - Fresh back from a trip to Tasmania, I can add my review of The Return of the King.