There are two ways to look at the close-knit family at the heart of writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s quietly-spoken but emotionally powerful Palme D’or winning film, Shoplifters. One, held by the police who eventually portray them as would-be murderers, scam artists and kidnappers, holds that they encapsulate everything that is wrong Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT In Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns, an all new sequel with a fresh sensibility that celebrates the spirit of the original, Mary Poppins is back to help the next generation of the Banks family find the joy and wonder missing in their lives. Emily Blunt (The Girl on the Continue Reading

  For a species that has used endless ingenuity and creativity to scramble its way up the evolutionary pile, humanity can be hideously inflexible at times. There is something hardwired into the very fabric of Homo sapiens that lends itself to entrenched adherence to a set of beliefs, no matter Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Directed by Anne Fletcher, DUMPLIN’ follows an outspoken plus-sized teenage girl named Willowdean (Danielle Macdonald), who’s known as Will to her friends and Dumplin’ to her mother (Jennifer Aniston), a former beauty queen who now runs the local Miss Teen Blue Bonnet pageant. In her small Texas town, Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Courtesy of BBC Two’s Black Hollywood, this short clip pairs John Boyega’s incredibly charming story about being cast in The Force Awakens with equally charming animation, making the story pop. See how Boyega became Finn, a fun little story that involves some white lies, an expensive cab ride, Continue Reading

  Diving back into the bright, technicolour world of the Robert Zemeckis-directed Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, which was released officially in Australia on 24 November 1988, is like re-acquainting yourself with a very funny, hilariously bawdy old friend whom you haven’t seen in years but with whom you still have Continue Reading