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Spoil, Steal Or Stream: Why Is TV In Australia So Behind The Times?
As the new frontier of long-form audiovisual narrative launches a thousand thinkpieces about the end–or new beginning–of TV, Australian networks are only just catching up. While fast-tracking is...
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How To Dress Well: Lindsay Weir From Freaks And Geeks
Freaks and Geeks is the best show about high school ever made. I firmly believe that if I‘d seen it at the right time – back in 2000, when I was devoted to the overwrought meta-soap verbosity of...
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Winter Is Coming. Very, Very Slowly.
Hodor! Welcome to the first instalment of Junkee’s weekly Game of Thrones column. Sometimes, it’ll be a recap; sometimes, it’ll be an essay expounding on a specific scene/character/political move;...
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Five Things I Yelled At The Screen During This Week’s Game Of Thrones
1. “THAT’S NOAH TAYLOR!” Guys, Noah Taylor! I realise he’s played other roles but it is still absolutely bizarre to see skinny little Danny out of the sharehouse and on a horse, covered in fur, talking...
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Game Of Thrones Week 3: Advanced Stealth Feminism, Or Is Everything Just...
A little while ago, the excellent Lindy West wrote an exasperated, somewhat provocatively-titled post for Jezebel: ‘If I Admit That ‘Hating Men’ Is a Thing, Will You Stop Turning It Into a...
View ArticleCool Trailer, R.I.P.D. – But Do We Really Need Another Supernatural Buddy Cop...
There is not a film in existence that couldn’t be improved by casting Jeff Bridges. Can you imagine if he’d, say, replaced Ken Jeong in The Hangover? Or Michael Fassbender in Prometheus? Or if he...
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Game Of Thrones’ Long Game, And The Problem With Adaptation
This week’s Game Of Thrones column deals with some things that have happened in both the series and the books (up to Book 3, A Storm Of Swords), and makes mention, very vaguely, of the fact that some...
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Grimes Is Small And Has A Vagina And Is Really Sick Of This Shit
Canadian avant-garde pop producer and singer Grimes wrote a slightly sad, poem-like rant or manifesto on her Tumblr earlier today. Claire Boucher has a bit of a complex relationship with the blogging...
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How Do We Watch True Blood In 2013?
When it premiered way back in that blood-spattered spring of 2008, True Blood had gravitas. With Alan Ball at the helm, it was littered with none-too-subtle but intriguing parallels between the...
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The Great Echo Chamber That Is Game Of Thrones
Welcome to this week’s Game Of Thrones column, discussing episode 6 (“The Climb”) of season 3. If you care about spoilers, be gone! But, you know, come back once you’ve seen it, ’cause the following...
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The Teaser Trailer For Gravity Should Keep You Away From Space For A While
The first teaser trailer has been released for Alfonso Cuaron’s upcoming sci-fi/space film, Gravity. I personally will be referring to it as OH CRAP OH CRAP OH CRAP OH HOLY JESUS CRAP because I have a...
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The New Greenpeace Ad Is Too Important To Be Pulled
Channel Nine have pulled a Greenpeace TV spot that adopts the tone and aesthetic of a Coca-Cola ad to show the environmental costs of plastic usage. With Adrian Lux’s hit ‘Teenage Crime’ in the...
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Game Of Thrones Week 7: Just KISS Already!
Welcome to this week’s Game Of Thrones column, discussing episode 7 (“The Bear And The Maiden Fair”) of season 3. If you care about spoilers, be gone! But, you know, come back once you’ve seen it,...
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Exactly Why I Came Here: On Daft Punk, Wee Waa And The Aftermath
It makes sense, if you think about it. When creatures from outer space come to visit, they don’t touch down in the middle of Manhattan (unless they’re trying to destroy it). They find an isolated...
View ArticleThe Newsroom Season Two Trailer Totally Has Tickets On Itself
GUYS. HE’S DONE IT. AARON SORKIN HAS FINALLY DONE IT. THE MOST PRETENTIOUS TRAILER FOR A TV SHOW EVER. Yes, it’s that time of year again. HBO, having discovered that hate-watchers’ money is as green as...
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Game Of Thrones Week 9: U Mad, Bro?
It’s different when it’s people you know, isn’t it? Last episode, as Cersei sweetly gave Margaery the Cliffsnotes on the horrific massacre that inspired ‘The Rains of Castamere’, House Reyne was just a...
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Who’s Winning So Far In Game Of Thrones?
“Power resides where men believe it resides,” goes Varys’ oft-quoted mantra. “A very small man can cast a very large shadow.” But this season was no shadow-puppet show; it was pure, brutal exposé, with...
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Digital Community Radio Has Been Saved. (At Least For The Moment.)
Well, the soul-crushing grind of federal politics has felled two quality pollies this week already, and it’s only Wednesday. But it’s not all doom and gloom in Canberra today: the Community...
View ArticleRoxy Celebrates Surfing Women By Showing Woman Surfer Faceless, Topless,...
Even when women are doing amazing, non-sexual things with our bodies, they’re still sexual objects. That was the message we got when every mouth-breathing tennis fan on Twitter rushed to inform the...
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Can Aaron Sorkin Make The Newsroom Great This Season?
There’s an episode of The West Wing where Chief of Staff Leo McGarry gives Deputy Communications Director Sam Seaborn a totally insignificant assignment — a birthday message for the assistant...
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