by cjharris | | equality, feminism, film, popular culture, women
When I think about how women are portrayed on-screen, the final image in the 1999 romantic comedy Notting Hill comes to mind. In a montage laden with sentimentality, we are whisked through Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts’ romantic life — culminating in a scene on a park...
by cjharris | | film, popular culture, writing
Until I was commissioned to write a Hallmark movie, I had never actually seen one. My task involved watching dozens of them so I could figure out the formula (yes they really are the same film over and over) before sending off my first screenplay. But even though I...
by cjharris | | current affairs, film, politics, popular culture
This week, the Australian Government declared that the arts were no longer important. No, that’s not actually true. They didn’t make any such declaration. Instead Prime Minister Scott Morrison spouted some nonsense about why he was cutting a number of government...
by cjharris | | film, popular culture, women
ing: spoilers ahead. Full disclosure: I’m not a big Tarantino fan so I may not be the target audience for his 2 hour 45 minute homage to Hollywood of the 1960s. On the other hand, I’m a huge fan of this particular era of cinema, so I was thoroughly expecting to enjoy...
by cjharris | | current affairs, popular culture, work
Geoffrey Rush has won $850,000 in his defamation case against the Daily Telegraph, and stands to receive millions more in damages. The fact that the Murdoch tabloid is sensationalism posing as news will come as a shock to precisely no one. But Murdoch is not the real...
