Rick and Morty is delightfully, deliciously, darkly, fabulous strange and wildly imaginative, both verbally and visually – yes I seem to have slipped into an alliterative stream and I’m just going to go with it – delivering up two seasons of wacked-out adventures through space, time and weird dimensions on Adult Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The adorable tug-of-war of Trashonauts
We all have boring days at work; if we’re really unlucky boring years at work. But what happens if all that deadening routine goes out the window one day and we’re faced with a total upending of the enervating apple cart? If you’re Griff Garbinski, a grumpy collector of Continue Reading
First impressions: HBO’s The Night Of
It’s tempting when you’re watching a glossy TV series centering on the criminal justice system like Law & Order or CSI to assume that everything works meticulously well and that its very inhabitants from the police through to the crime scene investigation teams and lawyers work together as a harmonious Continue Reading
Trust us there’s a very funny side to being Cooped Up
SNAPSHOT After coming into contact with a potentially fatal virus, a bitter professional wrestler is forced to isolate himself in his childhood home for 21 days. (synopsis via Cinema Australia) Back when the most recent Ebola epidemic was ravaging the three countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, the Continue Reading
The Get Down: You can rule the world
SNAPSHOT The Get Down focuses on 1970s New York City – broken down and beaten up, violent, cash strapped — dying. Consigned to rubble, a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers are nothings and nobodies with no one to shelter them – except each other, armed only with verbal Continue Reading
Marvellous mass of movie trailers: Other People, The Light Between Oceans, The Hollars, Loving, La La Land
You may have noticed there’s a lot going on in this thing we call life. Which is why I think there’s an endless array of movies to tell its stories – all the heartache, laughter, silliness, gravity and pain, and all the nuanced and messy emotions inbetween. So here Continue Reading
Movie review: Looking the Movie
Coming back after quite some time away to a place and people with whom you were once intimately connected is always a fraught undertaking. No matter how well you’ve tended to those connections, there is always a sense of dislocation, a realisation that you still belong but no longer Continue Reading
Already Dead: Zombies are people too you know
SNAPSHOT Already Dead is a short mockumentary about recovering zombies. Fifteen years after a zombie outbreak (ZE Day) Zombies live among us, working 9-5 jobs, holidaying in Barbados and living “life” to the fullest. A documentary crew have been given exclusive access to a group of Zombie’s day-to-day “lives”. Continue Reading
Movie review: Absolutely Fabulous
At heart of every sitcom worth its salt, has been a dark and inner core, an exploration of ideas, emotions or philosophies that underpins all the froth and hilarity that encircle them. In the case of Absolutely Fabulous, the story of PR mogul Edina “Eddy” Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders) and Continue Reading
Talking as Fast as I Can: Gilmore Girls Lauren Graham has a new book in the works
If there is one thing Lauren Graham has mastered after playing Lorelai Gilmore , not once but twice – Gilmore Girls returns on Netflix this November with 4 new stand alone episodes – it’s talking fast. Wonderfully, gloriously, cleverly, articulately, pop culture reference-laden FAST. Having seen her interviewed on Continue Reading