Australian cinema is nothing if not brave and brutally frank, a reflection of a national psyche that is, by and large, willing to tackle an issue rather than leave it happily unattended. And while this narrative embracing of the elephant in the room often pays dividends, it can also result Continue Reading
Bring on the bloopers: The light side of Star Trek Into Darkness
SNAPSHOT Director J.J. Abrams’ global sensations Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness set a course for the ultimate home entertainment package in STAR TREK: THE COMPENDIUM, arriving September 9, 2014 from Paramount Home Media Distribution. The set includes four Blu-ray Discs with both films in sparkling high definition Continue Reading
Undead LOLZ: The Walking Dead S4 gets the Bad-Lip Reading treatment
There isn’t much to laugh about in the deadly serious world of The Walking Dead. After all, a mysterious virus has long since turned the vast majority of the world’s population into slavering, flesh-craving undead beings, left those people who remain alive fighting day by day, inch by inch Continue Reading
Lena Dunham wants you to know she’s Not That Kind of Girl
Lena Dunham is an impressively talented young lady. Along with creating, writing and starring in the critically-acclaimed and immensely popular HBO show Girls, about the lives of four flawed but earnest twenty something women in New York, and heading up projects via her production company such as the documentary Three Suits Continue Reading
Movie review: The Maze Runner
It would be easy to assume, given the recent deluge of movies adapted form red-hot popular YA novels,that there is a large factory hidden out the back of Hollywood in which pale and drawn authors, shackled to their typewriters (for they are far more evocative than PCs), are writing dystopian Continue Reading
Good times and bad guys: The dimly-lit world of Moonbeam City’s Dazzle Novak
SNAPSHOT Set in the 1980s, with the color palate to match, [Rob] Lowe plays Dazzle Novak, a not-so-bright undercover cop who is always in search of a good time (when in fact he should be hunting down the bad guys). Banks co-stars as Novak’s hard-ass boss, while [Kate] Mara Continue Reading
No one told you it was going to be this way: Happy 20th anniversary to everybody’s favourite Friends!
Happy 20th anniversary Friends! Yes, everyone, you are officially allowed to feel ridiculously, insanely old as you realise – rather quickly unfortunately thanks to the totally unambiguous declarative sentence that opens this anniversary tribute – that the first episode of Friends, a seminal sitcom that defined what life was life Continue Reading
Now this is music #38: The Knocks, Team Me, J Tropic, Fickle Friends, PROM
It doesn’t take much for life to get crazy busy does it? One extra project at work here, an unexpected errand there, and suddenly your calm and well-planned day goes spiralling out of control and with it your peace of mind and low blood pleasure. Which is why we’re lucky Continue Reading
Moone Boy: The comfort and power of an imaginary friend
“Ever wanted to be the imaginary friend of an idiot boy in the west of Ireland? Me neither. But there you go.” And with that pithy, funny, narrative-encapsulating line, Moone Boy, set in late 1980s Ireland and starring Chris O’Dowd (The IT Crowd, Girls, Family Tree) as said imaginary Continue Reading
Marvellous massing of movie trailers: Rudderless, While We’re Young, The Rewrite, White Bird in a Blizzard, Men Women & Children
I love the end of the year! So many wonderful, rich, intelligent dramas all throwing themselves at audiences, and of course Oscar (he of the Academy Awards) like lustful teenagers at a One Direction concert. I don’t even care that it will mean I never leave the cinema; it will Continue Reading