By and large, big, dumb fun monster blockbusters are not exactly known for pushing the envelope. Beholden by their very nature to an A to B narrative – they are, if nothing else, escape from danger movies on an epic scale – with little to no wiggle room, they Continue Reading
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Coco: We are all a part of those who came before (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel (voice of newcomer Anthony Gonzalez) dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz (voice of Benjamin Bratt). Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead Continue Reading
Movie review: Logan
Watching a Marvel film, with a few notable exceptions such as the playfully off the leash Guardians of the Galaxy, and the mischievously R-rated Deadpool, often feels like being trapped in some sort of real life Groundhog Day. Well made though many of the films are, they tend to feature Continue Reading
Who Framed Roger Rabbit – The 3 Rules of Living Animation
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) is an amazing film on so many levels. Made at a time when the digital revolution had yet to make its indelible mark on the art of animation, the Robert Zemeckis-dtrected film, which beautifully combined live action and animation in a story in an Continue Reading
Movie review: Jasper Jones
There is always a fraught element to any book-to-film adaptation – will the movie do its literary antecedent justice? – one made all the more pronounced when the book is as well-loved, and highly-praised as Craig Silvey’s instant Australian classic, Jasper Jones (2009). One way around this wellspring of Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The psychology of The Narrow World
SNAPSHOT The Narrow World is the story of a gigantic alien that crashes to Earth and takes up residence in Los Angeles. Contrary to expectations, when the alien is neither hostile towards the tiny humans around it, nor communicative in any way, it falls on the populace to decipher Continue Reading
It’s a Bright world out there – but not as you know it (teaser trailer)
If you’ve ever watched Lord of the Rings, and if not, why not, explain yourself this instant, you’ll be well aware that in that far off and mystical land, humans, elves, orcs and dwarves all exist together in, well not perfect harmony exactly (that’d be the Disney version folks) Continue Reading
Movie review: Family Commitments #MGFF17
“Oh! What A Tangled Web We Weave When First We Practice To Deceive” Those immortal words by Sir Walter Scott in his poem “Marmion” are full of portentous implications if your neck deep in a drama of Shakespearian proportions; but if you’re in a high farce Germany comedy about Continue Reading
My Life as a Zucchini – the imaginatively bittersweet world of one captivating boy
“There’s nobody left to love us.” That haunting phrase, uttered by one of the young children at the orphanage which acts as the sitting for My Life as a Zucchini, which is up for a Best Animated Feature Academy Award at this year’s Oscars along with Zootopia and Moana, Continue Reading
Haven’t had a chance to watch all the Oscar-nominated films? No problem
It’s almost time for the 89th Academy Awards! Now while many people are merrily making well-considered predictions about who will be clutching a golden statue on the big night and which movie will arise triumphant, I am choosing to once again Switzerland myself out of all the whole process. Continue Reading