Shane A. Bassett
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Born in Sydney Australia. Other than movies, Shane surfs, rides a mountain bike and follows the West-Tigers football team in Rugby League. He once won $500 cash for doing air guitar on live TV to the Van Halen classic Jump! His personal best films vary but while writing this, he loves ‘Seven’, The Breakfast Club’, ‘Escape from New York’ and ‘Clue’.

Shane’s Movie Review: Quartet

Quartet is top shelf, feel-good British filmmaking that will delight fans of Downton Abbey, Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and winner of the 2011 Best Picture Oscar, The King’s Speech. Indeed, like the aforementioned films, the audience will laugh, cry and…

Interview: ‘Les Misérables’ Cast & Director at the Australian Premiere

TYF contributor, Shane A. Bassett, interviewed the cast and director of Les Misérables on the red carpet at the Sydney, Australian premiere. Four sleeps till Christmas, a very warm and windy day on the red carpet in the middle of Pitt Street Mall, Sydney…

Interview: The Cast of ‘Skyfall’ at the Sydney Premiere

TYF contributor, Shane A. Bassett, interviewed the cast of Skyfall on the red carpet of the Sydney, Australian premiere. I was early, so early in fact that I stood in my position at the Australian premiere of Skyfall, whilst a…

Shane’s Movie Review: Paranormal Activity 4

I’m exhausted, I just watched Paranormal Activity 4. All good, no spoilers here, the less you know the better. Unless you have a heart condition, go see this as soon as you can to avoid anyone ruining the erratic shocks…

Shane’s Movie Review: Brad Pitt’s ‘Killing Them Softly’

Wow. Watching this profoundly suspenseful crime story was one uncomfortable experience, but in a good way. The acting in certain situations throughout make for one riveting motion picture experience reminiscent to the first time I saw Pulp Fiction. Killing Them…

Shane’s Movie Review: ‘Dredd 3D’

It’s been seventeen long years since Sylvester Stallone crushed the British cult comic strip character Judge Dredd so much that fans disowned the film. Who could blame them? I saw it at the cinema and have never forgotten the pain.…

Shane’s Movie Review: ‘The Sapphires’

At this point, I believe this is the Australian movie of the year, the audience around me showed the same sentiments when they stood up as one and clapped during the end credits. Harvey Weinstein seems to think so also,…