Love isn’t easy … for anyone really. Imagine though how much harder it must be when you’re a young kidnapped alien from the moon, all alone on earth with no one for company, your only activities playing the recorder in the trash, holding up ad signs for fried chicken shops Continue Reading
Movies
Go back in time with 8-bit Guardians of the Galaxy
Star Lord and the gang of Guardians of the Galaxy may zip around the galaxy in faster than light ships, outwitting powerful nemeses and rescuing everyone from certain and imminent death but they are at heart ’80s kids – well onetime Earthling Peter Quill aka Star Lord who clings Continue Reading
Movie review: Mortdecai #StGeorgeOpenAir
Mortdecai, Johnny Depp’s latest foray into playing an eccentrically-endearing man-child who comically says and does whatever pops into his head, aims high. Under the studied direction of David Koepp who understands that less is more, Mortdecai, based on a series of quirky cult novels by Kyril Bonfiglioli, is clearly looking to Continue Reading
There’s Four of them AND they’re Fantastic. AGAIN.
SNAPSHOT Fantastic Four, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and Continue Reading
Home Sweet Home: charming anthropomorphic houses embark on an epic journey (short film)
No one likes moving right? All the packing, the organising, the lugging and hauling, the sweating, the exhaustion, the dislocation; none of those words scream fun,the experience most analogous to a trip to the dentist or being held captive while the tax code is read to us. But in Continue Reading
Happy Australia Day: 5 Aussie movies you should see this year
Happy Australia Day everyone! As you fire up the barbie and throw on the snags, throw down a few “cold ones” and wonder whether you should start dessert with the Iced VoVos, the pavlova or the lamingtons, thoughts may turn to the Aussie movies you’d like to see this Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Classic movie posters get LEGOlised by Adly Syairi Ramly
Adly Syairi Ramly is a seriously imaginative guy. Not content with playfully rendering a host of famous bands in LEGO, he has now turned his attention to a slew of classic movie posters, giving each of them what he calls his “Legolised” treatment. It’s a timely move given the fact Continue Reading
Movie review: Still Alice
Alice Howland (Julianne Moore) is one very accomplished woman. Barely 50, and in the prime of her life, she is a fiercely-intelligent, much-admired professor of linguistics at Columbia University in New York, a fitness fanatic, wife to equally-as-accomplished John (Alec Baldwin), and mother of three to Anna (Kate Bosworth), Tom (Hunter Parrish) and Continue Reading
Get ready to embrace your Sisters
SNAPSHOT Tina Fey and Amy Poehler reunite for Sisters, a new film from Pitch Perfect director Jason Moore about two disconnected sisters summoned home to clean out their childhood bedroom before their parents sell the family house. Looking to recapture their glory days, they throw one final high-school-style party Continue Reading
The dark retro mysteries of space: sci-fi short Atropa
SNAPSHOT An Off-World Detective investigates the missing research vessel Atropa, and is met with a much larger mystery than he ever expected. (synopsis via Ain’t It Cool) Let us never forget that space is a scary, scary place. What with xenomorphic aliens running amuck wanting to eat you (Alien), Continue Reading