Movies

(courtesy IMDb) One of the most rewarding aspects of watching any film that takes its time with its storytelling is the richness of humanity that often emerges in ostensibly quiet moments. It’s an approach that mirrors life, which for its seismic shifts and momentous twists and turns, often expresses itself Continue Reading

(courtesy IMP Awards) Blockbuster movies are supposed to be big, bold and epic. That’s the whole point of them; to take us into some intensely escapist storytelling that consumes the screen, monopolises all our attention and so subsumes us in a world and a story not our own that we’re Continue Reading

(via Shutterstock) In news that will surprise no one, bar those who have never darkened a cinema or a pop culture reporting site, there are a lot of movies coming out all the time. Streaming. Cinema. Projected onto the sheet of a small shed in a small country town. Movies. Continue Reading

(courtesy IMP Awards Finding somewhere to belong, and just as importantly, someone to belong to, is one of the great drivers of what it means to be human. We need, crave and desperately desire connection, and when we find it, there is joy and contentment in abundance … but when Continue Reading

(courtesy IMP Awards) Plunging into a biopic of someone you know about but who isn’t someone you know well, can be an interesting, and sometimes illuminating, exercise. By sheer dint of their celebrity and ubiquity, you will have some surface knowledge about them floating around your knowledge-burgeoning mind, but beyond Continue Reading

(courtesy IMP Awards) Any time you’re around Paddington Bear is a good, warmhearted and wonderful time. In the case of this reviewer, it began some decades ago with the books of Michael Bond, the man who gifted us this remarkably lovely and thoughtful character, beginning in 1958 with A Bear Continue Reading