Category Archives: Movie Memorabilia

Part of my childhood was watching a lot of 80s TV. Saturday mornings, after school afternoons, weekends on the couch. And right up there among the best of them was The A-Team. Four ex-Army Special Forces soldiers, branded as war criminals for a crime they didn’t commit, breaking out of prison and becoming heroes forContinue reading “Hannibal — A Gift, a Brush, and a Plan That Came Together”

Unlike today, my generation only knew two genders. Boy or girl. And if you were a boy, the rules were simple. Toy guns. Cars. He-Man. Robots. GI Joe. That was the list. Full stop. Pink and Barbie was for girls. Everyone knew that. Fast forward to 2011. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides hitContinue reading “Captain Jack Sparrow – My First Barbie”

1990. Navy SEALs hit the cinemas. Charlie Sheen, Michael Biehn, a team of elite operators taking on the bad guys. For a group of young blokes with airsoft guns and way too much energy, that film was everything. We had a team of five. And every single time we played, we were the SEALs orContinue reading “Six SEALs — Remembering the Navy Sillies”

May the 4th. Star Wars Day. A day for everyone who ever looked up at a galaxy far far away and never quite looked away. That includes me. I was seven years old the first time I saw Star Wars. Not in a cinema. At home, with the family, after school. My older brother —Continue reading “May The Fourth be with you— The Figure I Could Never Leave Behind”

March 9, 2007. The roar of an angry king shouting “This is SPARTA” rocked cinemas everywhere. Zack Snyder’s 300 had arrived — on IMAX and conventional screens — and nothing was quite the same after that. Every boy all of a sudden wanted to be a warrior. That included me. There was always something aboutContinue reading “This Is SPARTA — Finding Leonidas in Geelong”