The $20 Film Buff Card

With the change of season, like a squirrel hoarding nuts for Winter, we at small screen suggest you buy your hires in advance.
On that rainy day when you're broke and have nothing left to do, you at least have credit at your local video shop. And with the credit crunch rolling into the GFC rolling into a recession, this will be the best and safest investment of $20 you could possibly make!

How it works:
THE FILM BUFF CARD:
Pay $20 in advance & get 10 credits.
Each credit is good for one weekly, the $5 titles take up two credits. This saves you a dollar or two on every hire! Just top up when you run out of credits!

2008 cut and paste

I've been remiss in keeping up this blog, but here's a selection of small screen titbits culled from the facebook pages! More regular posts to come ...

SEX AND THE CITY "The Movie" is out on DVD. We are officially in the post-Sex and the City era.
No more shall once a week columnists be able to afford quite so many shoes.
No more shall smart, independent, sassy, sexy women have to capitulate into some facile romantic fantasy dreamed up by the dominant phallocentric paradigm and disguised as some quasineofeminisim ... sorry all, that was like throwing a molotov cocktail when I should be offering a free cosmopolitan with every hire. ...

"Spaced" is out on DVD! It's about a blond twenty something loser whose girlfriend dumps him. He now works in retail in a pop culture store, owns a schnauzer and spends all his day on the couch and whose conversation consists of mainly film references. I find it completely unrealistic, but you might enjoy it.

A movie is like a panadol. It works for about two hours.

So a guy walks into small screen and says " I came to get knocked up."
So I say "I can't really help you with that."

Thirty 80s/90s NTSC VHS classics have just turned up! All $1 each!
Can be turned into postcards, or spliced together into movie mash-ups if you're creatively inclined.

Alongside the record store above the barber shop, Rathdowne Records is Melbourne's most hidden Aladdin's Cave for vinyl collectors.

Crammed with over 40 crates of personally selected, quality graded records we have one of Melbourne's best stocked jazz collections and our range of classical vinyl is second to none. Funk and soul get pride of place however and our hip-hop, reggae, world and soundtrack collection is also enviable.

However it's our crates of rock and pop from the '60s and '70s that get the most interest as kids try to rebuild their parents' record collection.

Not to neglect the 80s and beyond: retire your cassettes, CDs, MP3s, stop downloading and get it real, 12 inches large and uncompressed.

Have a browse on the couch, give it a spin on our listening deck, pat the puppy, listen to Joel wax lyrical, the Rathdowne Records experience is unique.

We are also open later more often than any other record store: until 9:30 pm every night!
420 Rathdowne St, North Carlton 3054. (03) 9347 9997.

In Bruges

In Bruges is further proof - after The Hit, The Limey and Sexy Beast - that all you need to do to make a decent British gangster film is to not set it in England. Throwing the c word around is also a genre necessity.