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: ‘Robot & Frank’

Apparently in the near future almost everyone will have their very own robot butlers to do everything from house cleaning to the weekly shopping. An independent hit on the festival circuit, it is impossible not to like this movie from…

Interview: Shane talks with ‘Bourne Legacy’ star Jeremy Renner

Meeting double Oscar nominee for The Hurt Locker & The Town – Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye in The Avengers) was not what I expected at first. Sitting halfway along a boardroom table, he was enjoying a pasta and mushroom takeaway meal,…

Shane’s Movie Review: Step Up Revolution

In what has been a quite entertaining series of unconnected films, beginning with the surprise hit 2006 original, it’s significant for launching the Hollywood career of none other than man of the moment Channing Tatum. In part 4, the revolution…

Shane’s (Spoiler-Free) Movie Review: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

The hero returns but expect the unexpected. Knowing what I now know, may I suggest to anyone with the even the most fleeting interest in seeing this alleged finale to a most remarkable Batman trilogy that you run, don’t walk…

Shane’s Movie Review: ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ with Andrew Garfield & Emma Stone

It would have made more sense to me for Spiderman to join in on the Avengers initiative as opposed to giving him his own overblown, so called reboot. The plot tweaks are significant and there is enough adventure to stay alert for fans…

Film Review: Ridley Scott’s PROMETHEUS with Noomi Rapace & Michael Fassbender

A film clouded in secrecy, acclaimed director Ridley Scott (Gladiator, White Squall) returns and nothing has changed, still no one can hear you scream in space during this sort-of prequel to his 1979 classic ‘Alien’. Ambitious and staggering set design, full of jaw…

Film Review: ‘What To Expect When You’re Expecting’

The calamity of Bruce Willis as baby Mikey in ‘Look Whos Talking’ aside, not since the 1988 cult favourite ‘She’s Having A Baby’ in which Kevin Bacon came to terms with the trials and tribulations of impending parenthood, has a film been so…