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.
Quit grouching about Oscar
Karl Quinn So, the Oscars were terrible television? Not in my house, they weren't.
Alice in 3D – dreary, derivative, and way too much Depp
Karl Quinn Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is indeed a 3D presentation – dreary, derivative and way too dependent on Depp for its own good.
Eddie can't even get a homophobic joke up
Karl Quinn You’ve almost got to feel sorry for Eddie McGuire. The poor guy just can’t take a trick.
Don't just watch Avatar, see it
Karl Quinn There's a delicious irony in the fact that James Cameron has made a greenie movie that is the world's most expensive.
Study finds some studies state the bleeding obvious
Karl Quinn "RED wine tastes better when sipped under red or blue lights" ran a headline in the UK tabloid The Daily Mail last week. A nothing-much piece, perhaps, but in ...
Study finds some studies state the bleeding obvious
Karl Quinn "Red wine tastes better when sipped under red or blue lights" ran a headline in the UK tabloid The Daily Mail last week. A nothing-much piece, perhaps, but in ...
Flying doctor comes down to Earth
Karl Quinn Poor Brynne Gordon. She must have thought all her worst fears had come true yesterday when her flying doctor became the man who fell to Earth - albeit not for the first time.
I'm right, you're wrong, let's go on telly
Karl Quinn Can’t stand the person you’re married to? Fantastic! You could soon be a reality television star.
It's written, but not in the stars
Karl Quinn I hate the star system.
Will the real celebrity MasterChef please stand up
Karl Quinn Celebrity MasterChef kicks off tomorrow night, and there's little doubt who the real stars are.
Trashy, flashy and coming to a stage near you: the '80s
Karl Quinn What's going on with all the flashy musicals based on trashy movies from the '80s and '90s?
Racism, rudeness or something worse?
Karl Quinn The internet was ablaze last week with comment on Kanye West’s antics at the MTV Video Music Awards. But were the posters really concerned with rudeness or with race?
All hail Queen Cate
Karl Quinn It’s official: Cate Blanchett is royalty.
Hollywood's hand forced by people power?
Karl Quinn Is it a case of people power forcing the hand of the studio, or rather of the studio harnessing people power to do all the hard work?
The death of a building
Karl Quinn Opening day of the Melbourne International Arts Festival, and I'm in the gleaming lobby of what appears to be a hotel or an office block or a residential tower.
Black faces: Harry Connick Jr had no choice but outrage
Karl Quinn Daryl Somers must have woken up this morning feeling a lot like the farmer in that old joke. ‘‘I built this fence. Do they call me the fence builder? I raised a family. Do they call me a family man? .
A court, not a cabal, should decide Polanski's fate
Karl Quinn So, Roman Polanski has been arrested. About bloody time.
God gave us TV so we'd know what time it is
Karl Quinn Oh my God, the strangest thing just happened.
Ever get the feeling you've been had?
Karl Quinn David Letterman knows how it feels.
Jackson and Safran, as similar as black and white
Karl Quinn Michael Jackson and John Safran are peas in a pod, two sides of the same coin, ebony and ivory on the keyboard in perfect harmony. Seriously.
