Some years ago, when Disney’s once-lustrous animation star had dimmed considerably, its glory days of Sleeping Beauty, Fantasia and Bambi well behind it, and uber-creative upstart Pixar nipping at its heels, you could have been forgiven for wondering if it would ever reclaim its place as one of the Continue Reading
Can I be honest? This is what The Walking Dead (S4-6) is really all about says Screen Junkies
The Honest Trailers from Screen Junkies are simply brilliant. Even if you are utterly devoted to a show like The Walking Dead, which yours truly and so many others are, it’s still fun to take a step back and laugh at some of the wild inconsistencies in the show. Continue Reading
Bookstores and libraries are wonderful places! Here’s the cinematic proof
In common with many people, bookstores and libraries are my happy places. I can wander through the shelves and stacks of bookstores particularly for hours on end, enthralled by one book after another, having to fight the urge (mostly successfully) to buy everything I see. It’s a glorious escape Continue Reading
We have been chosen! Sausage Party’s hilarious animated look at food fatalism
SNAPSHOT Sausage Party, the first R-rated CG animated movie, is about one sausage leading a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they become chosen to leave the grocery store. The film features the vocal talents of Continue Reading
A beginner’s guide to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld (curated article)
David G. Lloyd, University of South Australia Terry Pratchett once told me that he didn’t actually recommend beginning your relationship with the Discworld through his first novel in the series, The Colour of Magic (1983). That’s because hindsight is 20:20. When Terry wrote “The First Discworld Novel” in 1983 Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Imaginative flat lay movie posters of classic films
If only all movie posters were this gloriously imaginative. Manchester, England-based artist John Bolton has created the most wonderful posters of classic films like Amelie, The Royal Tennenbaums and Breakfast at Tiffany’s using objects he has faithfully made himself that evoke the spirit and style of these movies. The Continue Reading
First impressions: Colony
Colony is one of those enormously-promising shows that seems to spring fully-formed into the pop culture consciousness. Drawn from the prolific hand of Carlton Cuse (Lost, Bates Motel, The Strain) and co-creator Ryan Condal, Colony presents us with a not-too distant Los Angeles, ringed by a giant wall and under the Continue Reading
Noisy Furniture: A horror movie of interior furnishings that go bump in the night
It’s happened to all of us. We’re lying in bed, drifting off to sleep when suddenly something creaks, or something clicks or something seem to rustle or move. Yep, it’s those good old things that go bump in the night. What could they be and will our house end Continue Reading
Now this is music #65: Alice Ivy, Eskimeaux, Drinking Flowers, Lontalius, Hans Island
Life is a busy place. Lots to do, think and feel and keep track of – thank goodness for talented artists like the following five who channel their pinpoint accurate observations of life and the human condition, and give us songs that allow us to pause, think and feel Continue Reading
Wizards of Aus: When fantasy figures hilariously seek a new more normal life
SNAPSHOT Fed up with the Magical Realm’s obsession with large-scale fantasy warfare, Jack the Wizard decides to migrate to the sanest place he can think of: Melbourne’s Western suburbs. After accidentally causing a magical catastrophe, his existence (and that of his fellow magical immigrants) is revealed to the Australian Continue Reading