Movies

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  Childhood is supposed to be a safe, idyllic, untroubled place. Yet for a million different reasons that are as diverse as the various failings of the human race, it fails to be the fairytale dream it’s supposed to be, overwhelming young growing minds with the kinds of challenges and Continue Reading

  Avengers: Infinity War is grim, people, GRIM with the kind of ending that has you leaving the theatre with a desperate, impelling need to eat your body weight in junky comfort food (which as luck would have it, cinemas have in abundance; true, it will bankrupt you ten times Continue Reading