Movies

  It doesn’t take long to realise that The Diary of a Teenage Girl, written and directed with a playful yet dark intensity by Marielle Heller, is not your typical quirky indie teenage drama. Granted, the 1976-set film, based on the book The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Continue Reading

  Phone calls – we either love ’em or hate ’em. Waiting for a good friend to confirm the details of your all expenses paid, big birthday dinner at the best restaurant in town? LOVE ‘EM. Boss calling at 11.24pm to check why you use a comma instead of a dash Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT The Good Dinosaur asks the question: What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? In this epic journey into the world of dinosaurs, an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. While traveling through a Continue Reading

  “Time passes. That’s for sure.” (Eileen Myles) Elle Reid (Lily Tomlin) is not having a good day. With her past coming up to meet her, as it always does, to remind her things aren’t as good as they once were, and her present taking the turn for the unexpected Continue Reading

  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