There’s an almost endless list of things to love about Pixar. Its characters are fully-fleshed out joys that live and breathe with all the verve, wit and warmth of real people. Its storylines are substantial, rewarding excursions into wonder, thrills-and-spills and sheer exuberant silliness and happiness, resonant with deep Continue Reading
Movies
Love changes all: The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT The black and white feature is based on the true story of the Finnish boxer Olli Mäki and his highly hyped 1962 championship match against the American featherweight champion Davey Moore. The film follows Olli as he unexpectedly falls in love and becomes more committed to pursuing a Continue Reading
The End: What would popular films look like with end credits scenes?
Superhero movies love them. Fans sit through endless lines of credits to see them. They are post and sometimes mid-credits scenes, popularised recently by Marvel, which add a little extra to the movie that precedes them but also hint at where the next movie linked to the one you’ve Continue Reading
Captain Fantastic and the unyielding, heartwarming ties of family (trailer)
SNAPSHOT A father (Viggo Mortensen), devoted to teaching his six children how to live and survive in the deep forests of the Pacific Northwest, is forced to leave his self-created paradise. When confronted with the real world, he begins a journey that challenges his ideas of freedom and what Continue Reading
Movie review – Captain America: Civil War
When you walk into a Marvel movie, you can usually be pretty sure of what to expect. The necessary superhero contingent, either singular or massed, a leering, hubris-drenched baddy with the sort of lac of self-awareness that allows them to think they will emerge victorious, a narrative punctuated by Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: EVE captures humanity’s final mesmerising moments
SNAPSHOT A 3D movie set in a futuristic & poetic universe without any dialog. The last moments of humanity on earth before nature resumes his duties. Eve is a short film shot and imagined in 3D with a professional filmmaking team, including Joséphine Derobe as the 3D stereographer, who Continue Reading
Movie review: A Month of Sundays
Frank Mollard (Anthony Lapaglia) has fallen out of love with life. The result of losing his marriage to TV medical drama actor Wendy (Justine Clarke) eight months earlier, and the recent death of his mother which has overwhelmed and consumed him, Frank is a listless, enervated man, lacking any Continue Reading
May the 4th Be With You: C-3PO’s life story told in a “Mr Roboto” by Styx way
Like all of us, C-3PO, one of the three iconic droids of the Star Wars universe – welcome BB-8 to C-3PO and R2-D2‘s side! – has a life story (one which now includes an explanation for that red arm he sports in The Force Awakens). From his humble origins Continue Reading
May the 4th Be With You: Star Wars The Force Awakens “as told by emoji”
Tempting though it might be to dismiss an entire movie told via emoji you should open your mind to the wonder and delight that is Star Wars: The Force Awakens rendered in galactically-approved ideograms. Created by Disney, this 3 minute re-telling of last year’s supremely successful newest instalment in Continue Reading
May the 4th Be With You: TIE Fighter tells Star Wars story from the Empire’s side
You know how they always say they’re always two sides to every story? While we’re not supposed to think in those terms in regards to classic good vs evil films like Star Wars where there’s a glossy, shiny good protagonist/s we should unreservedly cheer and champion (the Rebel Alliance Continue Reading