(courtesy Oceanfilm.net) To be honest, this reviewer put off watching Ocean With David Attenborough for quite a few months because life was, and is, super stressful and who needs to find out more about how supremely comprehensively humanity is trashing our oceans on top of the litany of other environmental Continue Reading
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Ready for my cinema seat, Mr. DeMille: my favourite 60 movies #Andyat60
(via Shutterstock) I honestly recall the first movie I ever saw but it was highly likely it was on the TV. When I was a kid, cinemas were few and far between on the Far North Coast of New South wales and while my family wasn’t poor, we weren’t flush Continue Reading
Movie review: The Running Man
(courtesy IMP Awards) Way back in 1982, the idea that the world could be as dystopian as it is depicted in The Running Man would have seemed more than a little far-fetched. It’s not that the movie, based on Stephen King’s work of the same name which came out that Continue Reading
Is technology out to get them? Playtime has a new focus in Toy Story 5 (teaser trailer)
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn Toy Story 5, we’re introduced to a new character Lilypad, a high-tech frog-shaped smart tablet voiced by Greta Lee that makes Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang’s jobs exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to Continue Reading
Happy 40th release anniversary: Back to the Future #AndyAt60
(courtesy IMP Awards) Sticking classic movies back in the cinema has become quite the cinematic catnip for those of us who saw the originals way back in the day when they weren’t confined solely to small streaming screens and home theatre systems. While we’ve all become accustomed, for better or Continue Reading
Movie review: Predator: Badlands
(courtesy IMP Awards) When you’re a pop culture junkie, one of the most satisfying things imaginable is when a threadbare but entertaining franchise embarks, sometimes decades in the making, on super substantial world-building and elaborate exposition, enlarging and enriching its storytelling in the process. It can take a franchise that Continue Reading
Retro Christmas movie review: Haul Out the Holly
(courtesy IMDb) There’s a strange disconnect that can emerge when you’re consuming festively themed pop culture – for instance, you might be perfectly fine with reading endlessly escapist, coincidence-full rom-com novels but find their Hallmark equivalents to be a Christmassy bridge too far. You know there’s a strange kind of Continue Reading
The spirit of Halloween future: Teaser trailer for 2026’s Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTShaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom sees the residents of Mossy Bottom Farm looking forward to Halloween – until the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock’s beloved pumpkin patch! When Shaun turns into mad scientist to help fix the problem, things rapidly spiral out of control… With Continue Reading
Movie review: French Lover
(courtesy IMDb) Let’s be clear right from the start – French Lover doesn’t exactly reinvent the romantic comedy model. Channelling a very Notting Hill vibe but with the status of the sexes reversed, French Lover takes a charming and very funny journey of two people, one a famous A-list movie Continue Reading
Take the plunge with the fun new trailer for The Pout-Pout Fish
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTTwo aquatic misfits embark on an impossible journey to save their home. Living on a rundown shipwreck, Mr. Fish discovers a hyperactive young sea dragon Pip – who had mistaken his home for a junkyard – pilfering his belongings. The heated argument that ensues leaves both their Continue Reading