Movies

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  The need to belong is a fairly basic human imperative; it informs our drive to make friends, join clubs, fall in love and be a part of a family, among many other things. And it is the beating heart and soul of quite possibly one of the most wonderful Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Leo, 11, spends his days in bed in a New York hospital due to a serious illness. He discovers he has an extraordinary ability to separate from his body and fly over the city while his physical body sleeps. Along the way, the boy meets Alex, a detective Continue Reading

  We are drowning in superhero narratives at the moment (or is it that we’re drowning and the superheroes are coming to rescue us and …?). But that’s understandable. After all, they seize the imagination, takes on bold and imaginative journeys into ourselves, the human spirit, around the world and Continue Reading

  The tagline for Jason Bourne is the definitive yet poetic “You know his name”, an evocative phrase designed to speak to our familiarity with a character who, over the course of three genre-redefining films that caused among other Bond to play visual and narrative catch-up, we had come to know Continue Reading