Burn, Hollywood, Burn A regular review by John Black With the recent release of Rambo: Last Blood and its critical mauling for daring to feature a violent and vengeful 73 year old man (the Guardian called it an ‘enlarged prostate of a movie’; imagine if someone had called Thelma and
Burn, Hollywood, Burn A regular review by John Black How does a man well past his party years wind up in a cinema early on a Friday evening drinking whiskey neat and watching the latest Rambo movie? A bad week, that’s how. A vicious stew of happenstance – a wallet
Burn, Hollywood, Burn A regular review by John Black I have never watched a single episode of the TV series Downton Abbey, which sees its cinematic offspring grace our movie houses this week. I have always figured it was the kind of Merchant Ivory/Brideshead Revisited bollocks, only popular with
Burn, Hollywood, Burn A regular review by John Black IT’S 2 BLOODY LONG The first ‘IT’ is the highest grossing horror movie ever, far surpassing such classics as Psycho, Alien, Silence of the Lambs and Halloween. This fact is the sand in the arse crack of every true horror
Burn, Hollywood, Burn A regular review by John Black Over 1 million people sign up to ‘storm’ Area 51, the U.S military base thought by tin-foil hatters to contain extra-terrestrial beings. Vaccination rates fall across the western world after anti-vaxxers cause ‘vaccination hesitancy’ among parents. Twisted white guys obsessed
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds During her recent spat with Scott Morrison, our prime minister revealed something of herself. In claiming Australia had to ‘answer to the Pacific’, she made it plain that she is a Western masochist. It is an odd
Burn, Hollywood, Burn A regular review by John Black In his latest flick Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino discovers Old-Man-At-The-BBQ-Who’s-Had-One-Beer-Too-Many variety Conservatism. The thematic takeaways are what Conservatives have been saying for ages (at BBQs and elsewhere): Hollywood is a playground for moral degenerates, actors are
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds Once upon a time, a little before the invention of the I-phone and the first season of ‘Love Island’, in a land not so far away, in fact right under our feet, an angelic race of brown-skinned
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds Donald Trump like him or like him slightly less (hey, this is a centre-right site) certainly knows how to name call. He has the unerring ability of the schoolyard bully to come up with the perfect taunt
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds Calling a politician ‘red’ is often a smear, an attempt to muddy the boundary between well-meaning lefty and full on commie crank. But in Bernie Sanders’s case the descriptor is accurate. He openly calls himself a
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds Kamala Harris is the perfect anti-Trump candidate – a photo negative inversion of the Don. In fact, if they ever meet, the universe may implode such is their perfect cosmic opposition. Trust me, its physics. She’s black,
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds New Zealand politics can often be a dull, tiresome affair. Kind of like my first marriage but with less angry heckling. By contrast, American politics never fails to intrigue. It’s the stakes. If it employed its
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds In the great works of dystopic fiction, 1984, Brave New World, and Robo Cop 3: He’s Back To Lay Down The Law, the state looms large as the enemy of liberty. It is not mere coincidence
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds Death and taxes, they say, are the two unavoidable facts of existence. But taxes can be avoided if you sleep in Albert Park and play the bongo drums for spare change outside McDonald’s. Death, on the
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds Warning This leaked memo is a work of fiction and is satirical. The following was found in the men’s restroom of a Wellington Massage Parlour by a lady…of my acquaintance. TOP SECRET MEMO FOR GREEN
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds A fortnight ago our government took on an awesome responsibility: the wellbeing of 4.8 million souls. The ‘wellbeing’ budget, after suffering more leaks than a hedgehog’s raincoat, was unveiled to the world and immediately received
