Watch - DVDs, Movies, TV Shows
WATCH is SixThousand's guide to movies in Perth. While we focus on art-house and independent releases, we never shun our secret pop-culture pleasures. WATCH also has its fingers on the pulse of film-festivals and specially programmed events and we give tickets away every week. We have also been known to organise special preview screenings, which we always chicken out of introducing on the microphone before the previews start playing.
Grace
I'm typing this from a booth at Oxford 130 - the precise location where I first met Russ Pirie. It was immediately evident that Russ believes ‘all the worlds a stage'. He'd bus the tables sottoing show tunes. He'd flamboyantly mock a little two-step to avoid a customer. He'd call me ‘darling'.
A Single Man
Fashion designer Tom Ford's directorial debut is high modernism at its most mannered and hallucinatory. Perhaps Ford means to express the increasingly unreal quality of life for a man who's decided to die. But secretly, I think he's just wallowing in aesthetics. That scene with the topless tennis players is a bit much.
66A Church Rd
We're all about creative types here at 6T but it's fairly safe to say that loan officers aren't. To the beige pants behind the glass screen, "installation artist" doesn't exactly scream "mortgage material". For most creative types (prior to hitting the big time) there is undoubtedly going to be a world of renting to inhabit.
Crazy Heart
Crazy Heart feels a little like The Big Lebowski meets The Wrestler. Like Darren Aronofsky's film, it quietly, impressionistically follows a broken-down former star: country singer-songwriter Bad Blake (Jeff Bridges). Alcoholic and estranged from his family, he's scraping a living touring dismal dives, ducking out mid-song for a spew.
The Hurt Locker
Sergeant Will James (Jeremy Renner) is the kind of maverick that war movies so often ask us to admire: fearless, resourceful, wisecracking and soft-hearted with kids. But screenwriter Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow slowly reveal the devastating truth: James is fucked in the head... and he likes it that way.
The Wolfman
This year, Valentine's Day falls on a new moon. But you'd still better watch out for the signs you may be dating a werewolf. Has your Valentine ever been into ripping villagers to shreds? Does he or she do a really good Chewbacca impression? If you look up a book called Lycanthropy and flip to chapter two, "Ancient Gypsy Lore", do you see a woodcut of your Valentine with a furry head and no pants?
The Wolfman is Universal's homage to its own classic 1941 monster flick.
Daybreakers
Vampires are everywhere these days, so Daybreakers - a film imagining what happens when vampires take over the world - makes sense, right? It's the near future and everyone dresses like they're in the 1940s and everything looks like a Tool music video. Human blood is low in supply and starving vamps are turning into screeching bat-creatures.
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