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Tom Arup

Tom Arup has written 3 posts for A New Leaf Media
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Lawrence Leung Learns to Breakdance

By Tom Arup ⋅ April 23, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Leung has really hit on something here. It’s not that his topic is exceptionally revolutionary’most of the material is about Leung exploring what cool is’rather it is brilliantly executed.
He instills everything one wants from a creative exercise: a constant narrative, intelligent observations and a lot of himself. In fact, it is this personal element that [...]

Courteney Hocking Un-Australian

By Tom Arup ⋅ April 23, 2007 ⋅ One comment

Courteney Hocking’s show plays in the Banner Room at Trade’s Hall, important only because the room is oppressively small.
‘God, I hope she doesn’t bomb cause there’ll be nowhere to hide,’ one member of the audience says before Hocking begins.
She doesn’t bomb, but she doesn’t excel.
It’s a little hard on Hocking to be playing this room, [...]

Critiquing the Critics: A Love Letter to Adrian Martin

By Tom Arup ⋅ August 7, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

In his 2004 review of comic book adaptation Catwoman, The Age’s Adrian Martin gave the film four stars. Martin was adamant that the undertones of feminism, mixed with pleasing aesthetics had constructed a ‘fine film’. He was particularly impressed that the film had serious feminist ideals while still being a huge Hollywood blockbuster.
The film was [...]

 

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