Movies

  Imagine if you will that you suddenly found yourself desperately short of time, required by some inexplicable deadline to watch all the films of Cameron Crowe’s oft-charming, many times insightful cinematic output and report on it in the shortest time possible. What would you do? What would you do … Would Continue Reading

  Keeping your childlike sense of wonder and boundless optimism into adulthood can be a tall order, especially when, like Frank Walker (George Clooney), you have good reason to discard it favour of well-worn cynicism and paranoid distrust. But as the Brad Bird-directed Tomorrowland reminds us over and over in Continue Reading

  Who wouldn’t want to stay in The Grand Overlook Hotel indeed? Well quite possibly everyone really, particularly if a quite mad, pre-frozen to death in the maze Jack Torrance was bashing his way into your room with an axe  while screaming “Here’s Johnny!” But what if that same hotel also Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of mass savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley band of misfit teachers in the fight of their lives. Cooties is co-directed by Jonathan Milott & Cary Murnion, making their feature directing Continue Reading

  As the Hoover Dam splinters in a thousand concrete shards, the Hollywood sign tumbles slowly down its resting place, and San Francisco is pummelled, set on fire and comprehensively levelled by a tsunami, we should be, by all rights, aghast at such wanton destruction of all the great (Californian) things Continue Reading

  Humanity takes a while to learn its lessons and learn them well. If history has taught us anything, and it’s quite true that those who ignore it are doomed to repeat it to their detriment, it’s that we often misunderstand the fundamental of things like power, wealth and leadership. Continue Reading

  Avengers: Age of Ultron is the biggest movie in the world right now and like it or not – I quite liked it though I felt I had seen it all before – Alastair Blanshard from The University of Queensland raises some interesting points in this article from The Conversation about why we love superheroes Continue Reading

  Now here’s something fantastically creative, firmly of the zeitgeist and worthy of your time and your money. Talented London-based Kirigami artist, Marc Hagan-Guirey aka Paper Dandy is currently raising funds on Kickstarter for an exhibition featuring iconic scenes from Star Wars rendered from a single piece of paper. While Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT The film follows Max (Anton Yelchin) and Evelyn (Ashley Greene) as their relationship takes a nose dive once they move in together. Max discovers how controlling and manipulative Evelyn is but he’s too scared to break up with her. When fate steps in and Evelyn dies in a Continue Reading