Movies

  SNAPSHOT Communications company NET wanted to show how making new connections helps you get out of a funk. They wanted to emphasize their social work as part of the company’s ethos. They proposed a new take on a classic tale. We used a blend of filmed puppetry to give Continue Reading

  By any measure, Alien is a scary, tense thriller. It’s hard not to watch the crew of the Nostromo succumb one by one to the xenomorph stalking them with horrific precision – except for you Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and Jones the intrepid crew cat – without goosebumps, hands over Continue Reading

  When a film has been as long a time coming as 20th Century Women has been one its long and winding trip to the cinemas of Australia, you begin to wonder if it will match the hype and breathless reviews that precede it. In many cases, films don’t meet Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Based on the New York Times bestseller, Wonder  tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time. (synopsis via IMDb) When it all comes down to it, all any Continue Reading

  Balancing snark and sweetness is never an easy undertaking in storytelling, with two quite disparate elements either slipping one way or the other out of balance, or failing to get at all, leaving you with confused characterisation, a muddled narrative and ultimately, half-baked, listless story. But in the case Continue Reading

  While Life, the film they were promoting may not have performed to expectations, being variously described by critics as “an inferior addition to the genre” (David Stratton, The Australian) and a film that “goes nowhere fast” (Gary Dowell, Dark Horizons), stars Ryan Reynolds (not Debbie Reynolds son FYI) and Continue Reading

  Hailed by her writer W. M. Marston, who was the educational consultant at publisher DC Comics, as “an antidote to the bloodcurdling images of masculinity”, Wonder Woman made her debut in December 1940 in the final eight pages of All Star Comics #8. While she didn’t get the front Continue Reading