Sam Cleveland
Sam Cleveland is a professional writer with an arts degree and near-perfect manners.
Gold Coast-born and based, Sam nurses a pre-occupation for films directed by Michael Mann and Brian DePalma, comics written by Alan Moore and Mark Millar and music made by (mostly deceased) black folk.
For years he was an entertainment reporter for News Limited, where on various stints at the Cannes and Venice Film Festivals he picked up several mildly diverting anecdotes about his brushes with various marquee-name eccentrics.
Closer to home, Sam reviews films for ABC Radio and produces great volumes of advertising copy, corporate submissions and tender documents.
Articles by Sam Cleveland
Playing with nature - the ethics of sex selection
A Melbourne couple’s decision to abort twin boys conceived through IVF – the weekend’s flashpoint news story – is a…... Read more
Festival booze: Australia’s most expensive drug
On a simple buzz-for-bucks basis, booze on sale at the wildly popular Summafieldayze festival is the most expensive drug on…... Read more
There will be a winner and a loser in the Wikileaks saga
Julian Assange’s extradition to Sweden for alleged sex crimes is destined to become an ugly, inconsequential sideshow to history. Wikileaks’…... Read more
Lohan stitched up by patriarchal virgin worship
Am I the only one a little queasy over the underlying public gloat at the jailing of master criminal Lindsay…... Read more
Plenty of romance, pity about the comedy
Rove sidekick Peter Helliar’s debut film is out today and whoever cut the trailer has seriously let the side down.…... Read more
Three-dimensional films a one-dimensional rip-off
If you don’t want to be ripped off this weekend, don’t watch Clash of the Titans or Alice in Wonderland…... Read more
Hottest act at the Big Day Out is an innocent criminal
According to the letter of the law, the hottest act on this year’s Big Day Out roadshow is a criminal.…... Read more
A blokes guide to the best chick flicks
Curators of obscure movie history will, if they’ve had their eyes open, likely record 2009 as the year the ‘chick…... Read more
Why Avatar just might make its money back
There’s a very good reason why James Cameron’s Avatar, also known as The Most Expensive Movie Ever Made, stars a…... Read more
Let’s not give Britney another nervous breakdown
Whoa whoa whoa! Australia, hold up. Let’s tread carefully here… do we really want to induce another Britney Spears meltdown?…... Read more
Kanye’s rant exposes the stupidity of awards nights
Kanye West has once again shown up off his guts to an award show and gotten all boisterous about who…... Read more
You’ve never heard of the best film of the noughties
With only four months left until we leave the awkward-to-say noughties behind, why is no-one yet talking about the annointment…... Read more
Too many poofs spoil the broth for Bruno
Is it playing up to stereotypes to put Bruno’s failure at the Australian box office down to the same more-than-lingering…... Read more
Time to pronounce the death of the newspaper ... movie
That’s all she wrote for ‘newspaper movies’, with the fruitful subgenre to breathe its last once the Russell Crowe thriller…... Read more
Public Enemies and the top 5 guy movies of all time
I just saw Public Enemies, the upcoming Johnny Depp-as-John Dillinger gangster flick, and boy oh boy did it get me…... Read more
Bruno cuts Jackson scene - who’s the biggest loser?
Gifted comic Sacha Baron Cohen has shown misplaced restraint by snipping an inoffensive Michael Jackson joke from his upcoming moneymaker…... Read more
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From: Punch on: Open thread 09/02/2012
marley says:
I'm one of the older ones, so I've certainly seen a few changes in my time. When I started school I learned to write with a nib pen, dipped in an inkwell (no, I'm not kidding). My mother became a dab hand at getting inkstains out of my clothes. Flicking ink at one another in the classroom was an essential… [read more]From: I’d rather have a piece of toast than listen to crap lyrics
Erick says:
Led Zeppelin are responsible for my all-time favourite mixed metaphor: "There you sit, sit and stare, like a book on a shelf rusting." (Misty Mountain Hop) I laugh every time I hear it. Hmmm, I believe I've decided what to play on the way to work today. [read more]Gentle jabs to the ribs
No wuckin forries. These nuckin futs are tuckin fops
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