SNAPSHOT An alien encounter. A hypothetical visitor arrives from Outer Space. The authorities are immediately alerted – the military, defence and communication advisors, and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. How to deal with this unprecedented event? How to reassure Earth’s inhabitants, who are prone to panic, Continue Reading
Movies
Weekend festive pop art: Santa Claus is coming to a movie poster you love!
Ever get the feeling that Santa Claus is EVERYWHERE? It’s a sensation not helped by songs like “Santa Claus is Coming to Town”, which incidentally is the most played Christmas song of the past 100 years, which has lyrics like: “He sees you when you’re sleeping He knows when Continue Reading
On the 8th Day of Christmas … I watched the movie A Merry Friggin’ Christmas
We love our families. We hate our families. It’s a war of competing, diametrically-opposed emotions for most families each Christmas who, though they long for tree-decorating, eggnog-sipping harmony, usually end up with the festive version of War of the Roses. Perhaps that it is a little extreme, but the Continue Reading
Where’s your head (or foot) at? The full trailer for Inside Out
My but we’re complicated creatures aren’t we? Rarely adhering to the logical approach to anything, as apt to run with the best way to do something as to disregard it on the basis of a whim, we are, to extents large and small, driven by the emotions that seem Continue Reading
On the 5th day of Christmas … I watched the indie movie Happy Christmas
The confounding of expectations, at a time of the year when they are at their zenith, is at the heart of Joe Swanberg’s Sundance-screened Happy Christmas, the follow-up to last year’s well-received Drinking Buddies, his most accessible and successful film to date. The film’s title is an ironic one, of course, given Continue Reading
Movie review: St. Vincent
Figuring out where we belong in life, and just as importantly who we belong with while we’re living it, are the two great undertakings of our short time here on earth. Getting them right, or as close to right as this often flawed existence allows, is not for the fainthearted, Continue Reading
Prep for The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies with this entire trilogy in 72 seconds LEGO re-creation
*Warning some spoilers from the book contained within the video* Peter Jackson, much like the man whose work he has shown a passionate drive and love for adapting, J. R. R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit), loves BIG, epic tales. The longer, the bigger, the better. Continue Reading
Hand drawn perfection: Big Hero 6 goes outside the box to promote itself in Japan
SNAPSHOT Big Hero 6 is co-directed by Don Hall (Winnie the Pooh) and Chris Williams (Bolt) with a script that Jordan Roberts (3,2,1…Frankie Go Boom) co-wrote with the former. Based on the comic book series of the same name, the film marks the first collaboration between Walt Disney Animation Continue Reading
Movie review: Paddington
It’s a distinctly odd feeling when you’re about to see someone you once loved dearly for the first time in quite a number of years. You’re excited, of course, since this person once meant, and usually still means, even if in vividly-etched, rose-coloured memories, the world to you, and Continue Reading
I give them 5 stars: Farewell to Australian movie critic legends David and Margaret
Saying goodbye to someone you love is never easy. Or in the case of Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton, a legendary movie reviewing duo who presented their last show on Australia’s public national broadcaster ABC last night, well nigh impossible. These two impressively articulate, cinema-literate movie lovers were an Continue Reading