SNAPSHOT After a desperate criminal takes a bar hostage, six people must face their demons – past and present – in order to survive. But one of them is keeping a big secret that could change everything in an instant. Directed by Alex Albrecht, produced by Roddenberry Entertainment, lead Continue Reading
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Garak in high-res? Deep Space Nine doco What We Left Behind offers that tantalising possibility
True to my idiosyncratic form on pretty much everything, my favourite Star Trek show of all Star Trek shows is Deep Space Nine, which ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 1999. A marked departure from the shows up to this point, but not so much afterwards where the Continue Reading
Don’t be afraid: Tito and the Birds is here to beautifully embolden you
SNAPSHOT The Brazilian film — directed by Gustavo Steinberg (End of the Line), Gabriel Bitar (Cidade Cinza) and Andre Catoto (Say I Am Only Seventeen) — follows Tito, a shy 10-year-old boy who lives in a world on the brink of pandemic, where fear is crippling people, making them Continue Reading
Movie review: Leave No Trace
There is very little that is subtle about our current digital age. Though I am largely a fan, it is all too often the case that the louder, the more bombastic, the more obvious a story, the more it is given credence or is seen as the true teller Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: A Father’s Day proves being undead is no barrier to family togetherness
If there’s one thing that zombies films, long and short, cinematic and televisual, have in common, it’s that they’re not exactly warm-and-fuzzy family viewing. Sure some of the people in these shows have some touchingly intimate moments – well until they slip this mortal coil and join the multitudinous Continue Reading
Movie review: Book Club
There are very few people out there who would regard the Fifty Shades series of novels, plagued by poor writing, lacklustre characterisation and inert narratives as the height of great literature. They are likely the last books, especially now with their thoroughly ill-deserved time in the zeitgeist largely passed, Continue Reading
Up, up and away! Inflight safety video gets gloriously LEGO’d
I think we can all agree that the inclusion of LEGO in just about every endeavour in life makes them all better (and naturally, AWESOME), simply by the sheer presence of those joyfully-anarchic coloured bricks. That includes, and honestly this is a miracle given how odious airline travel can Continue Reading
Overwhelmed by the choices on Netflix? You’re not alone
SNAPSHOT I’m gonna throw Netflix an easy one here Forrest Gump. You know what I know it was on there. I saw it on there I saw it with my own eyes and it’s gone. …speaking of TV shows that I’ve never seen because I’m not big on TV, Continue Reading
Movie review: The Cured
Life is a messily indistinct business. While it would be lovely indeed if it divided itself neatly into clean cut before, during and afters, the unsettling reality is that one period often bleeds into the other, leaving us craving a neat fairytale transition but never really being delivered one. Continue Reading
Mission: Impossible — Executing the Perfect Heist (video essay)
The Mission: Impossible films have captivated me from the moment the first movie in the now six-episode series debuted in 1996. Possessed of a larger-than-life action persona, an emotional resonance lacking in action movies on the whole, and a tight knit team that fought the bad guys in the Continue Reading