Obscure Box

With all the hype over Baz Luhrmann’s new movie Australia transforming the Queensland town of Bowen into wartime Darwin, you’d think the two places would be in the running for the star studded premier. So why is the movie getting its first big screening in Sydney? Twentieth Century Fox says the New South Wales capital [...]

When will web designers wake up and realise that Flash is not the ideal way to present information on a website? Here I am, trying to research a story on James Bond when I come up against the website www.007.com I’m looking for information on the new Bond movie Quantum of Solace but all I [...]

Just for the record, so you know where I’m coming from. The rise of citizen journalist and blogging is about as much a threat to mainstream journalism as backyard footy is to the Premier league, or amateur dramatics is to to the professional stage. Blogs are a great place for some people to learn the [...]

Who first mentioned the link between Hillary Clinton’s ailing campaign for the Democrat presidential nomination and the scene with the Black Knight from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail? This Monday the ABC’s Tony Eastley introduced a piece “Clinton’s hopes of nomination grim” (Monday 12 May 2008) on the AM program with reference [...]

The sales will prove me wrong but I’m puzzled as to why anyone would buy the DVD boxed set of the last three Indiana Jones movies. The fourth film in the trilogy will hit cinema screens witin days, which means the fourth DVD will hit stores a few months later. So why spend up to [...]