Movies

  If you ever get the feeling that life is a messy business, guessed at imprecisely, executed randomly and full of uncertainty and self-recrimination, then there’s a good chance you’ll find a lot to identify with in Josef Hader’s comedy Wild Mouse (Wilde Maus). Leveraging the general sense of current Continue Reading

  I love the new Wonder Woman movie. I also love 8-bit representations of, well, pretty much anything. Combining the two is thus akin to pouring the nectar of the pop culture gods down upon me and allowing me to luxuriate in it. It takes me way back when, the Continue Reading

  Using history for narrative inspiration can be a double-edged storytelling sword. Granted you have a deep well on impossibly dramatic stories to dwell on, larger-than-life figures and epically heroic outcomes, all of which are custom made for big screen adaptation; however there is also the problem of historical elements Continue Reading

  It’s a rare thing indeed these days to walk out of a romantic comedy, more popularly referred to as rom-coms, with your head held high, a skip in your step and a strong sense that the world is a wonderful place. Too often you are left with a nagging Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT From Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Entertainment comes the epic action adventure starring Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen and Robin Wright, directed by Patty Jenkins. Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT The sequel to the worldwide hit family film finds Paddington happily settled with the Brown family in Windsor Gardens, where he has become a popular member of the community, spreading joy and marmalade wherever he goes. While searching for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy’s hundredth Continue Reading

  In the much-storied, trope-heavy world of superhero movies, Marvel has, for what feels like an eternity, been the 800-pound gorilla, throwing epic, blockbuster film after epic blockbuster film at audiences, each one seemingly more successful and zeitgeist-dominating than the last, its erstwhile rival DC Comics always consigned to a Continue Reading

  The act of creation is generally seen as a wholly positive thing, the beginning of new life, with the myriad possibilities that entails. But in Alien: Covenant, which more than successfully bridges the lacklustre Prometheus, and the later Alien films, it’s an altogether darker affair, one that strips creation bare Continue Reading