So you may have noticed a massive disturbance in the pop culture Force the other day when a new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer dropped. Analysed to an astonishing but very welcome degree – I always applaud those with more Star Wars knowledge than I possess going Continue Reading
Movies
12 parsecs or bust! Conan O’Brien auditions a galaxy of comedic talent for young Han Solo
Unless you’ve been living in a galaxy far, far away a long, long time ago, you’ll probably be aware of the fact that Alden Ehrenreich has been chosen to play a younger Han Solo, in one of series of Star Wars films designed to give us some backstory on Continue Reading
The drive to explore: The Search for Earth Proxima speaks to humanity’s need to discover and learn
SNAPSHOT Since astronomers first discovered exoplanets in 1995, we’ve come to learn that there are a staggering amount of planets out there in the universe. But, we have yet to find one that’s habitable, aside from our own. The Search for Earth Proxima is a short documentary about a Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The adorable tug-of-war of Trashonauts
We all have boring days at work; if we’re really unlucky boring years at work. But what happens if all that deadening routine goes out the window one day and we’re faced with a total upending of the enervating apple cart? If you’re Griff Garbinski, a grumpy collector of Continue Reading
Trust us there’s a very funny side to being Cooped Up
SNAPSHOT After coming into contact with a potentially fatal virus, a bitter professional wrestler is forced to isolate himself in his childhood home for 21 days. (synopsis via Cinema Australia) Back when the most recent Ebola epidemic was ravaging the three countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, the Continue Reading
Marvellous mass of movie trailers: Other People, The Light Between Oceans, The Hollars, Loving, La La Land
You may have noticed there’s a lot going on in this thing we call life. Which is why I think there’s an endless array of movies to tell its stories – all the heartache, laughter, silliness, gravity and pain, and all the nuanced and messy emotions inbetween. So here Continue Reading
Movie review: Looking the Movie
Coming back after quite some time away to a place and people with whom you were once intimately connected is always a fraught undertaking. No matter how well you’ve tended to those connections, there is always a sense of dislocation, a realisation that you still belong but no longer Continue Reading
Already Dead: Zombies are people too you know
SNAPSHOT Already Dead is a short mockumentary about recovering zombies. Fifteen years after a zombie outbreak (ZE Day) Zombies live among us, working 9-5 jobs, holidaying in Barbados and living “life” to the fullest. A documentary crew have been given exclusive access to a group of Zombie’s day-to-day “lives”. Continue Reading
Movie review: Absolutely Fabulous
At heart of every sitcom worth its salt, has been a dark and inner core, an exploration of ideas, emotions or philosophies that underpins all the froth and hilarity that encircle them. In the case of Absolutely Fabulous, the story of PR mogul Edina “Eddy” Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders) and Continue Reading
Max Rose: Jerry Lewis confirms that sharing love is more important than anything
SNAPSHOT In his first leading role in more than 25 years, Jerry Lewis will star in indie drama Max Rose. The film follows retired jazz pianist Max Rose (Lewis). Though his career wasn’t everything he hoped for, Max always felt like a success because his beautiful, elegant Eva (Claire Broom) Continue Reading