I have to be honest – I am a horror movie wimp. Recoiling generally at the ideas of vampires, mummies, zombies – there are some notable exceptions of course such as The Walking Dead – I prefer to avoid any kind of movie that gives these characters any Continue Reading
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Don’t panic! Don’t panic! The Dad’s Army movie teaser poster + trailer is here
SNAPSHOT It is 1944 and World War II is reaching its climax. The Allies are poised to invade France and finally defeat the German army. But in Walmington-on-Sea morale amongst the Home Guard is low. Their new mission then – to patrol the Dover army base – is a Continue Reading
Rockin’ and a-rollin’ with Ricki and the Flash (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT Three-time Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep goes electric and takes on a whole new gig – a hard-rocking singer/guitarist – for Oscar®-winning director Jonathan Demme and Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody in the uplifting comedy Ricki and the Flash. In a film loaded with music and live performance, Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Mark Hammill is hilariously brilliant at signing Star Wars trading cards
We’ve all had something signed by someone fantastically famous at one point or another. Whether it’s a book signing – in my case Hilary St. John Mandel autographing her book Station Eleven at this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival – or a Comic-Con line-up to have photos signed the stars of Continue Reading
Movie review: Mr Holmes
The Divinyls’ Chrissy Amphlett famously observed that there is “a fine line between pleasure and pain”, but the same could well be said for the all too often permeable barrier that exists between fact and fiction. While many would argue the two are mutually exclusive, never the ‘twain shall meet, Continue Reading
Michael Keaton stars in the captivating true story Spotlight
SNAPSHOT Spotlight stars Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schrieber, and Stanley Tucci. It tells the riveting true story of the Boston Globe’s Spotlight investigation team who uncovered a scandal that would rock the city and shock the world. For years, whispers of the Boston Archdiocese’s cover up Continue Reading
Franklin, it’s going to be a great movie! New The Peanuts Movie TV spot
SNAPSHOT In the film, Snoopy, the world’s most lovable beagle – and flying ace – embarks upon his greatest mission as he takes to the skies to pursue his arch-nemesis The Red Baron, while his best pal, Charlie Brown, begins his own epic quest. The Peanuts Movie is being Continue Reading
Movie review: Trainwreck
If you’ve ever been a recipient of Cupid’s mostly-accurate arrow, you would be among the first to admit there is rarely anything “old” or boring above love. But the movie genre that celebrates this most delectable, transportive and logic-scrambling of life events? Ah well, that is another thing entirely. Romantic comedies Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Disney princes imagined as handsome real men by Jirka Väätäinen
You’ve got to admit that when it comes to time in the Disney sun, the Disney princesses get pretty much all the attention. But what about the poor Disney princes? Well fret no more for Finnish-born, Australia-resident Jirka Väätäinen has more than made sure than the likes of Prince Eric Continue Reading
“Let’s blow stuff up!”: Guardians of the Galaxy gets even more animated (teaser trailer)
You might be thinking, and if you are, well congratulations you for not letting those neurons sparkly idly for no reason, that Guardians of the Galaxy, one of my favourite movies from 2014, is already plenty animated enough. After all, save for a few touching, heartfelt scenes, one of Continue Reading