Eden CacedaEden Caceda is a Sydney-based writer and broadcaster. His work has appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, Filmink, Junkee, Concrete Playground and many other publications.
For the Sydney Morning Herald: Wednesday’s revocation of the Sydney University staff party’s “Mexican fiesta” theme, as organised by the Vice-Chancellor’s office, has been met with virulent backlash.
For Honi Soit: Eden Caceda reports on the ongoing protest for affordable Aboriginal housing.
For BULL Magazine: It’s been four years since Wicked left Sydney and a decade since it opened on Broadway, but seeing Wicked at the Capitol Theatre feels like it hasn’t aged a day.
For BULL Magazine: Eden Caceda prefers his reality TV to be more Orwellian.
For Filmink: Melissa McCarthy rehashes her usual vulgar onscreen persona in this uninspired road movie, which squanders all its talent.
For Honi Soit: A few weeks ago I was walking down the street with a close friend when we came across a promotional poster for comedian Gabriel Iglesias on the side of a building. His face stretched across the gluey paper in a glorious display of his buzzcut and trademark handlebar moustache and beard – my friend turned to me and jokingly remarked, “Wow, look at that guy! Could you look anymore Mexican?”
For Filmink: In 2010, a group of rogue American army soldiers murdered three civilians during the War in Afghanistan. Calling themselves “The Kill Team”, what followed was years of whistleblowers, legal proceedings and internal investigations.
For The Reel Word: Suicide is often a difficult topic to include and explore in mainstream films. Unlike accidental deaths, which seem to be a plot twist in so many movies, suicide is rarely depicted on screen, and when it is, it easily comes under criticism because of the way it’s shown and the meaning it is trying to create.
For Honi Soit: Eden Caceda is not confused.
For BULL Magazine: Eden Caceda investigates the legitimacy of sex addiction.
For Honi Soit: Eden Caceda wished Ed Revue actually taught him something.
For BULL Magazine: There are few things more beautiful in the University social calendar than Labor and Liberal coming together to battle it out in front of a crowd of rowdy students ready to put the opposing team’s head on a stake.
For Honi Soit: Eden Caceda speaks to New York-based photographer Flo Fox.
For Honi Soit: Our government punishes success before Australian television even gets there, writes Eden Caceda.
For BULL Magazine: Network TEN’s hit drama Offspring has developed considerably over its five year run, and has perhaps at long last found its true tone.
Musical Sweet Charity has beaten out Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom at the 2014 Helpmann Awards for live entertainment.
For BULL Magazine: Eden Caceda investigates the reasons behind escalating rates of HIV/AIDS in Australia.
For The Reel Word: Based on Robert A Heinlein’s short story “All You Zombies”, Predestination centres on a time travelling “temporal agent” (Ethan Hawke), travelling by time-warped violin case, who attempts to prevent a mass terrorist, the Fizzle Bomber.
For BULL Magazine: Very few newly released films break the mould of existing movie genres, and rarely do new film movements have momentum to warrant the creation of a new subgenre. Mumblecore is a relatively new and unknown subgenre that has critics and historians arguing if the movement is likely to continue or dwindle.
For BULL Magazine: Forty years ago my grandparents arrived in this country escaping the economic and political upheaval of 1970’s Argentina.
For Filmink: Focused on seven international qualified bodybuilders training to compete in the Mr. Olympia contest, Mickey Rourke narrates Generation Iron, which aims to get to the core of why these bodybuilders do what they do.
For Filmink: Controversy has surrounded US military interventions in Afghanistan, Yemen and Somalia, and the new political documentary Dirty Wars, reminds viewers of the grave issues of this foreign policy.
For BULL Magazine: Baz Luhrmann’s first film Strictly Ballroom comes to life in this colossal stage adaptation, with all the same lines and songs Australia has come to love.
For BULL Magazine: Few people would associate South America with anything but images of llamas, Incan ruins and Shakira, but should any traveller venture far below the capitals Buenos Aires and Santiago, they would discover sights easily confused for the South Pole.
For BULL Magazine: Very few comedians in the world have been as successful as Andrew Hansen of The Chaser in so many forms of media.
For Filmink: Very few documentaries profile a personality as unconventional and fascinating as Father Bob Maguire in the brilliant In Bob We Trust.
For Filmink: The small world of a Spanish wedding collides with The 2010 World Cup in Daniel Sanchez Arevalo’s refreshing comedy, Family United.
For Hijacked: Bobette Buster has a job a million people would kill for. A part-time screenwriter, creative development producer and lecturer, she works as a story consultant for 20th Century Fox, Disney and Sony Studios.
For Hijacked: Breaking into the Australian live musical theatre scene is hard. In a climate where establishing a name is incredibly difficult, hundreds compete for the few available roles in Australian musicals every year.
For Filmink: Battle of the Year is a string of cliches, stock characters and unbearable melodrama.
For Filmink: Pulp Fiction has long been the inspiration for a number of films and the Pawn Shop Chronicles is no exception.
For Filmink: Focusing more on the cars and less on the half-naked women, Born To Race: Fast Track is the sequel to 2011’s Born To Race, but oddly with an entirely different cast assuming the roles previously created.
For BULL Magazine: Don’t panic, Eden Caceda and Whitney Duan are here to show you the way outside of the university walls.
For BULL Magazine: With social media buzzing about the new wearable computer, and technology enthusiasts awaiting the final retail version to be released later this year, Google Glass is expected to be the “next big thing” in computing.
For Aphra Magazine: In recent weeks NSW premier Barry O’Farrell announced a state government crackdown on alcohol and drug related violence after a string of attacks on nighttime city goers in recent months.
For Aphra Magazine: After boasting what is called the “best LGBTIQ films being made in Australia today, and from around the world”, the annual Mardi Gras Film Festival comes to a close in coming days after an incredibly successful run.
For CelebrityOz: In 1981, a romantic drama film adapted from a novel of the same name by Scott Spencer graced the screens and filled the hearts of teenagers on dates in local cinemas.
For CelebrityOz: Since The Hangover debuted in 2009, cinemas have screened an abundance of films about friends travelling to Las Vegas, or any other location with alcohol and bright lights, prior to a wedding or as a way to forget their transience. The new adult comedy Last Vegas is no different, but this time the male protagonists are about 40 years older than the younger men cast in similar films.
For CelebrityOz: The Academy Award-nominated actress Cate Blanchett has transformed herself into a lesbian in a huge return to Australian television for an upcoming episode of the hit ABC drama series Rake.
For CelebrityOz: This year Grammy winner Bruno Mars was the chosen one to follow up last year’s unforgettable Beyonce performance during the halftime show, collaborating with veteran rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers.
For CelebrityOz: It’s not the first time a celebrity has attended Britney Spear’s current ‘Piece of Me’ Las Vegas show but worldwide superstar Lady Gaga joined the club when she watched the new show on Friday night.
For CelebrityOz: Solomon Northup’s 1853 memoir Twelve Years A Slave is easily one of the greatest novels of the American literary canon about the slavery of African Americans pre-Civil War.
For CelebrityOz: It was Australia’s night of nights as actors, directors, models, singers and A-list celebrities hit the red carpet for the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Awards.
Eden Caceda speaks to some of Australian film’s biggest stars on the red carpet of the 3rd AACTA Awards at The Star, Sydney.
For CelebrityOz: Sydney’s The Star is preparing to host the annual 3rd AACTA Awards this Thursday, celebrating the best of Australian film and television in 2013.
For CelebrityOz: Based on the “untold story” of the Disney villainess, the upcoming Maleficent is both a prequel and re-imagining of Disney’s 1959 Sleeping Beauty and told from the perspective of the antagonist Maleficent, whom Angelina Jolie is set to portray.
For CelebrityOz: A melodrama about the past and struggle to let it go, this film adaptation uses the infallible acting skills of Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin and Gattlin Griffith to portray a lonely single mother, escaped con and the son who is at the centre of the love story that develops.
For CelebrityOz: Beyonce and Jay Z have done it again.
For CelebrityOz: The 56th American Grammy Awards, awarding music from 2013, celebrated emerging artists, highlighted social issues and was the musical party of the year on Sunday evening, held in Los Angeles’ Staples Center.
For CelebrityOz: Romantic comedies have long featured women in lead roles and revolved around the lives of single young women, made for single young women. But Are We Officially Dating? switches up the conventions of the genre by having the romantic comedy told from men’s point of view.
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