Oz TV Reviews

Thanks to everyone who has read my Blog this year. I hope that you have found it useful and interesting. There will be some changes in the new year and hopefully a bunch more readers who would like to add their opinion. In the meantime have a very Merry Christmas and I hope that it [...]

Dreamcatcher was released in cinemas in 2003 and was aired on Australian TV in the very early hours of Sunday morning. And to be honest this was where it belonged. Dreamcatcher has to be one of the strangest films I have ever seen. The film is based on a Stephen King novel and stars some [...]

ABC2 Sunday 12th December Stereophonics:Rewind was aired on ABC2 on Sunday in Australia. This 2 hour film tells the story of the Stereophonics from their beginnings until 2007. It’s a very interesting story and has some great music included. The band started in Cwmaman, South Wales, where Kelly Jones and Stuart Cable, the original drummer, [...]

Mary Queen of Shops is an English reality / makeover show, along the lines of Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. But instead of restaurants being made over, it’s small retail outlets and instead of Ramsay, it’s Mary Portas doing the makeovers. Although Mary doesn’t swear like Ramsay, she still seems able to alienate the owners of [...]

Tom Jones, Vampire Weekend, Corrine Bailey Rae… Vampire Weekend were first cab off the rank, with quite a cheery pop tune. It was not what I expected, maybe Vampires aren’t as dark and moody as they used to be. It was an OK tune, but may be better with a few more listens. Their second [...]

Alicia Keys, Macy Gray, White Rabbits, Jeff Beck… Alicia Keys kicked off the show with Empire State of Mind Part 2, a familiar radio tune from her 2009 album The Element of Freedom. She sung well, part of the time standing at the mike and part sitting at the piano. She looked good too in [...]