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Author: Juliette Hughes

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film reviews

    • Juliette Hughes, Allan James Thomas, Siobhan Jackson
    • 10 May 2006

    Reviews of the films Letters to Ali, Coffee and cigarettes and The Village.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Jeb Bartlet for president

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 08 May 2006

    ‘We live in the time where we have fictitious election results that elect a fictitious president’, said Michael Moore at the 2003 Academy Awards. Nothing has happened yet.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Where the real men are

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 30 April 2006

    Real men may brew beer but they don’t have to prove anything, unlike the sad creatures that run the men’s rights websites.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Must grumble

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 29 April 2006

    ‘Mu-um!’ he said the other day when I was arguing with the telly. ‘You certainly do know how to ruin a night’s viewing.’

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Lest we forget

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 27 April 2006

    Dad’s and Uncle George’s stories come back to me when I consider the upcoming series on SBS As It Happened: Germany’s War.

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  • RELIGION

    Cable czars

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 25 April 2006

    I always did like the telly more than was good for me—but frequently as I churn the remote through umpty-five digital cable channels I find nothing that’s any good.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    True confessions

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 24 April 2006

    I just feel so guilty, being a TV critic and all, I’m supposed to have some kind of taste. But I started watching Big Brother, despite saying I wasn’t going to. And then got, well, sucked in.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Pass the remote

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 23 April 2006

    There were some curious choices in Nine’s honour roll of the 50 top Australian programs: it was done by some process that wasn’t made plain to me.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Trouble in the kitchen

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 21 April 2006

    Inspired by TV cooking programs, men are buying cookbooks that were never meant to leave the top of a coffee table - and then they make shopping lists that include squid ink and quinoa.

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