The Vulture swoops with the keen eye and sturdy claw of the bird in the street to pick the flesh off culture high and low. Whether it’s television or theatre, advertising, architecture or the arts, it’s all fair game to this feathered fiend.
Matthew Newton, the Trotsky of Australian showbiz
Karl Quinn Matthew Newton has become the Trotsky of Australian showbiz, his image carefully airbrushed from history.
Cousins documentary silent on the 'why' behind his downfall
Karl Quinn Whatever the demons that drove Ben Cousins to drug addiction, they remained under cover in the first part of the massively hyped documentary Such Is Life: The Troubled Times of Ben Cousins, ...
Time for Polanski to settle his bill
Karl Quinn How is it that Roman Polanski can be both a moral pygmy and a filmmaking giant?
Reception of Inception rests on a misconception
Karl Quinn And then I awoke, to find it was all just a dream...
Slogans run
Karl Quinn SHE wears a pin-striped suit, navy, a string of pearls around her neck; the very picture of conservative respectability.
Total Eclipse of the heart? Not bloody likely
Karl Quinn Call me old fashioned, but I'd been saving myself. I'd had opportunities before but I'd resisted. I wanted the first time to be special. I wanted it to be with you, Eclipse.
Thanks a bunch, Nike
Karl Quinn The Nike curse is complete as its Write the Future campaign sees off the last of its contenders
MasterChef cooks up a masterstroke
Karl Quinn The unthinkable has happened. Marion is gone. Skewered by a satay, no less.
Five World Cup moments to savour
Karl Quinn There has been no shortage of chatter-worthy incidents in this World Cup, despite the shortage so far of truly outstanding games. But in spite of the flurry of red cards, missed offsides, Luis ...
ABBA-solutely fabulous or ABBA-Ghraib?
Karl Quinn For the fans, ABBAWorld is pure, unadulterated bliss. For the non-fans, it's the exact opposite, an ABBA-Ghraib torture chamber in which you're bombarded with the sounds of ABBA, the images of ..
Could Korea play Korea off the Park?
Karl Quinn Forget Argentina v Brazil, England v Germany, or even Australia v the Kiwis. The one match-up that really excites the imagination in this World Cup is the one that terrifies us all in the real ...
Socceroos in 3D: the horror movie
Karl Quinn Walking into Crown at 4.30am on the Queen's birthday was like swimming against a tide of human flotsam. Drunk and dishevelled they flowed in one direction, grit-eyed and hopeful we ebbed in the ...
Putting a price tag on the taggers
Karl Quinn At the recent Australian premiere of Exit Through the Gift Shop, the crowd was abuzz with just one question: do you think he'll be there?
MasterChef mops up in a whole new way
Karl Quinn Did you notice that moment on MasterChef last night when Matt got down on his knees to mop up the spilt fish roe using paper towels? The same paper towels he spruiks in the ad breaks? And ...
Talk to the hand, because Facebook ain't listening
Karl Quinn FACEBOOK, everyone's new best friend forever, suddenly knows what it's like to feel the cold hard sting of rejection.
Vale Lost and 24, two of TV's greats
Karl Quinn Let's just pause for a minute's silence, shall we? Two of American TV's greatest have just passed on, and they deserve a little show of respect.
See the really, really big men fly
Karl Quinn CHRIS Judd is always an imposing figure on the football field, but on Sunday the Carlton captain was positively massive, his bald head measuring a couple of metres from ear to ear as his team ...
Mary Poppins, or how I learnt to stop worrying and love the Broadway show
Karl Quinn On a Saturday afternoon two weeks ago, I realised something terrible was about to unfold near New York's Times Square. No, not that. Something else. I was about to watch the Broadway production of .
Hijacking friendships for a pizza the action
Karl Quinn The best way to grab the attention of the inner-city hipster is to look for all the world like you're not trying to. That, at least, is the view of the people behind Hidden Pizza.
TV ratings war just got serious
Karl Quinn The biggest TV ratings week of the year so far kicked off last night with a big win to Nine.
