Movies

  Who hasn’t read Charles Schulz masterfully-written, warmly-engaging and cleverly-insightful comic strip Peanuts and wished they could somehow step into its ink-defined panels? Have you ever wanted to lean on Schroeder’s piano, like Lucy does, and ponder the meaning of life, the universe and as much of everything as a Continue Reading

    All too often life can feel like one big compromise. Only the bravest among us seems able to resist the irresistible pull of compliance and self-censorship, and yet even they can be guilty of bending in a thousand small ways to inauthentic demands not their own. It is the nature of Continue Reading

  I loved Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) pretty much from the moment I saw it. There was something intoxicating about the way Ferris got way with all the sorts of things that I, good straight laced Christian lad just finishing university, would never have dreamed of attempting (but secretly wish Continue Reading

  The world is engulfed by remake fever. Or Hollywood to be more exact. Everywhere cinemagoers turn, an old, much-loved classic is being re-imagined, re-tooled, re-done because modern audiences need bright, shiny, new … or something. Who knows what’s behind it, other than perhaps studio-driven artistic laziness, but occasionally, in Continue Reading

  But Milk is Important is one of those delightfully immersive short films that manages to tell a lifetime’s worth of stories in just under 10 minutes of exquisitely-made stop motion animation. Crafted as a graduation project by Anna Mantzaris and Eirik Grønmo Bjørnsen, it is redolent with a deeply felt Continue Reading

  It probably goes without saying that humanity is rife with ambition. From crawling out of the primordial ooze and evolving into higher lifeforms with free will through to building complex, enduring and not-so-enduring civilisations, people in general have displayed an admirable ability to keep forging ahead no matter what Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT An interstellar Jekyll and Hyde, Arrowhead tells the tale of survival set amongst the distant stars. Kye is a prisoner of war caught between two armies that he doesn’t believe in. When offered an opportunity for freedom, Kye sets out on one last mission only to become stranded Continue Reading

  Once upon a time on a faraway desolate planet, two mining robots meet. While the meeting of these two souls, albeit artificially birthed ones, bodes well for companionable cooperation, things don’t quite work out as you might expect. The smaller more Wall-E-esque of the two supplies eagerly leads the bigger Continue Reading