GREEN GUIDE'S CRITICAL REVIEW
The Age
Monday March 14, 2011
FREE TO AIRFROST ON PARKINSONChannel Nine, 9.30pmTHIS is great TV talk: two enduring and engaging TV titans sharing a wealth of anecdotes about their lives and careers. Last Monday, Parky asked the questions; tonight Sir David Frost, a pioneering producer and presenter, does the questioning. Frost begins by probing Parkinson's childhood in a Yorkshire mining village, then moves on to his national service at age 19, he was the youngest captain in the British Army. The early days in television, along with Parkinson's love of music, sport and Australia, are discussed, as well as his flirtatiousness and favourite guests on his long-running chat show.DEBI ENKERPAY TVTHE SCIENCE OF THE SENSESDiscovery Science, 9.30pmTHIS episode looks at the chemical senses of taste and smell, the ones that "allow us to experience the world on a molecular level". Scientists get Canadian chef Claudio Aprile into the lab to undergo a battery of tests to find out whether he's a "super-taster". Unbeknown to him, he's also taking part in an experiment to discover whether smells associated with unpleasant events can induce anxiety. BRAD NEWSOMEMOVIETHIRST (2009)World Movies (Foxtel), 1.35pmIF YOU'RE in need of respite from the pale, sub-romantic repetition of the Twilight vampires then Chan-wook Park's vampire film is for you. Marked by the slurping, ravenous sucking of blood, Thirst is the South Korean auteur's idea of a black comedy. Sang-hyeon (Kang-ho Song) is a Catholic priest who isn't satisfied by his job he's likely to recommend anti-depressants when hearing confession. A blood transfusion makes him something not entirely human and soon he's prowling the rooms of the hospital where he ministers, running transfusion lines from comatose patients into his mouth. He takes up with Tae-ju (Ok-bin Kim), who takes bloody payments for the many grievances she once meekly held against her husband's family.CRAIG MATHIESON
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