Movies

  SNAPSHOT Directed by Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Sicario), the film is based on Ted Chiang’s 1998 novella Story of Your Life with a script with Eric Heisserer (The Thing (2011)). When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team – lead by expert linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) Continue Reading

  We all want to belong somewhere, and preferably, with someone. But life is not always that kind or generous, leaving people like Tallulah aka “Lu” (Ellen Page), abandoned at age 6 by a mother to a life spent scrabbling on the margins of society, adrift and alone. The eponymous Continue Reading

  Star Trek Beyond, as the name implies, is a film where much of the action takes place in exotic locales far beyond our own solar system with a multi-layered ultra-modernistic space station that defies gravity and hangs together like a space-bound Escher painting and a rocky, arid planet where Continue Reading

  It’s easy to forget when you’re watching the plethora of Jane Austen adaptations in existence, and they are legion and growing like topsy by the second, that the author of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility was a woman of fierce intelligence, rapier wit and keen satirical inclination. In Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Sausage Party is a raunchy animated movie about one sausage’s quest to discover the truth about his existence. After falling out of a shopping cart, our hero sausage and his new friends embark on a perilous journey through the supermarket to get back to their aisles before the Continue Reading

  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

  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

  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

  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