Movies

  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 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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  Inconceivable! Inconceivable! (You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.) No, totally conceivable actually as the imaginative folks at Gameblend Studios have shown with the release of an iOS game that features many of the scenes, characters and impossible-to-forget catchphrases from the Continue Reading

  From the first glorious moments of The Penguins of Madagascar, where we hear Werner Herzog, famed quirky German documentary maker effectively satirising himself as he narrates a documentary about the “chubby little bum-bums” penguins parading before him, it becomes patently and hilariously obvious that this movie will be a thing Continue Reading

  Being an outsider is never an easy thing. While there is often much you gain from observing from the sidelines, from not being subject to the usual whims, pressures and foibles of the so-called “in crowd” such as a keen appreciation for the multitudinous quirks of of human nature and Continue Reading