In our modern blockbuster age, we have been led to believe that for anything to truly affect us, it must be bigger, better, epic! So epic in fact that cities, nay continents must fall, all but but a fraction of the characters we care for must die, and the Continue Reading
Movies
Marvellous massing of movie trailers: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World, Age of Adaline, Cinderella, Strange Magic
While I am enamoured of films that deal with the real world and it’s many imperfect out-workings, my love affair with going to the movies began with films like Star Wars: A New Hope and Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom that offered a me chance to escape into a world Continue Reading
Falling in love with the romantic comedy Amira and Sam
SNAPSHOT To help adjust to coming home from war, former Green Beret, Sam Seneca (Martin Starr), takes a stab at a life-long dream: stand-up comedy. He also lands a high-paying job working for a Wall Street firm, run by his cousin Charlie (Paul Wesley). Amira (Dina Shihabi) fled Iraq Continue Reading
Love [not as Christmas-y or romantic as you think] Actually
I love Christmas. And I love romantic comedies. So yes, I, along with many a fellow romantic-minded person, love Richard Curtis’ festive rom-com Love Actually, required viewing for anyone who wants to feel warm and fuzzy and glowingly positive about life at Christmas, and not just from one too many eggnogs. Continue Reading
Movie review: The Drop
The Drop, based on Dennis Lehane’s short story “Animal Rescue” (part of his 2009 anthology Boston Noir), is less a crime drama, though that is undeniable part of its storytelling DNA, than a slow burning examination of one man’s attempts to live life on the terms he sets. Quiet Continue Reading
Candles and popcorn: My 3 favourite movies featuring birthdays
I love celebrating my birthday (which is today by the way should you wonder why I am volunteering this random piece of information). Or anyone’s birthday for that matter … yes, you, person I have never met reading my blog post, let’s celebrate your birthday! And why not? You Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: From thrift store paintings comes pop culture gold
I think it would be fair to say that most of us don’t immediately thinking of heading to our local thrift store – in Australia, they’re known as “op shops” short for “opportunity shops” – to procure some art for our homes. After all, while the art there is Continue Reading
Poster me this! The pun-tastic posters of Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
SNAPSHOT [Night at the Mueum: Secret of the Tomb] starts at the original home, New York City’s American Museum of Natural History, where the vibrant exhibits were discovered after closing time in 2006’s Night at the Museum (2009’s Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian took place in Washington, D.C.). Continue Reading
Pixar FUNX3: Inside Out (new posters + trailers), Toy Story Time Forgot (new trailer) + what the voice actors really look like
SNAPSHOT “From the tepuis of South America to a monster-filled metropolis, Academy Award®-winning director Pete Docter has taken audiences to unique and imaginative places. In 2015, he will take us to the most extraordinary location of all – inside the mind of an 11-year-old named Riley. Growing up Continue Reading
Movie review: God Help the Girl
It was Maria von Trapp herself, the woman whose life story inspired the musical The Sound of Music and who is featured in passing as a sweet visual joke in God Help the Girl, who remarked that “Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart Continue Reading