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...than Jagger’s plaintive “Still I’m gonna miss you”? Seems as appropriate a response as any. Did the hijackers perhaps wolf down some hastily-microwaved BBQ ribs at everyone’s third-favorite chain restaurant—after Outback and Fuddrucker’s—before boarding those fateful flights...
...hupstas"). Jemaine Clement, on the other hand, prefers to describe their comedy as "awkward." The Conchords are about to take flight. An album is due this year, and the two are developing a sitcom for HBO. Meanwhile, you can catch Clement's seminal work on commercials for restaurant chain Outback Steakhouse. "Jemaine is more the blokey guy," says McKenzie. "I'd probably advertise fruit and vegetables...
...people are reported missing every year. 90% of them are found, some are never seen again” begins “Wolf Creek.” Can three teenagers simply be wiped off of the face of the Earth during a mundane road trip through the Outback? Writer/director Greg McLean brings to the screen the “based on a true story” account of Sidney resident Ben (Nathan Phillips), and British tourists Liz (Cassandra Magrath) and Kristy (Kestie Morassi). Although the camera work is certainly appealing and the plot gripping, the movie ultimately seems like...
...ever a film worked with the slow precision of a pressure cooker, it is Wolf Creek. For its first half hour or so, the film proceeds leisurely, almost blithely, as it follows the journey across the Outback of three young backpackers from the beaches of Broome, Western Australia, to the meteorite site of Wolfe Creek, with its kilometer-wide crater and ghostly landscape. When the backpackers' watches mysteriously stop, as does their car's engine, we could be back in the moody territory of Picnic at Hanging Rock, especially when the star of that film, John Jarratt, shows...
...types who spent their days drinking beer and chasing dingoes with their mates, if only because the only place you’re likely to see a dingo near Sydney is in Taronga Zoo (of course, the traffic cops are called rangers and wear uniforms better suited for the outback, but that’s a whole separate topic...