Mortality is never an easy thing for anyone to grapple with. But it carries even more sting in its tale when you’re the sort of person who think they’re ten feet tall and bulletproof, immune to the vicissitudes of life, flicking off a pronouncement of imminent death like you’re Continue Reading
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Don’t LEGO of this film! 8 new The LEGO Movie clips to delight you
SNAPSHOT A lowly Lego figure (voiced by Chris Pratt) joins a group intent on battling an evil force after a case of mistaken identity in this computer-generated comedy from the filmmakers behind Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and co-director Chris McKay (Robot Chicken). Will Arnett co-stars as the Continue Reading
Australia Day: 3 Aussie movies being released in 2014 worth buying popcorn for
Happy Australia Day everyone! While I appreciate not everyone will be rushing out to grab a slab of beers (or in my case a Semillon Sauvignon Blanc or two), some lammos (lamingtons or small sponge cakes) and some snags (sausages) to throw on the barbie for a bonzer celebration Continue Reading
A work of art: 5 awesome new clips from The Monuments Men
SNAPSHOT Cowriter and director George Clooney adapts author Robert M. Edsel’s book The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History to tell the incredible true story of the seven art historians and museum curators who went behind enemy lines during World War II Continue Reading
Marvellous Massing of Movie Trailers: Adult World, The Wind Rises, Grand Piano, All the Light in the Sky, Maleficent
Keep your eyes peeled at all times my fellow movie-loving amigos! Such is the torrent, nay, tsunami of movie trailers heading our way at all times that vigilance is a must. But vigilance can get a little exhausting so I’ve assembled five trailers I am particularly excited about just Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art: What if TV shows and movies were Golden Books?
I grew up with Little Golden Books (the first 12 of which were published on October 1, 1942). I still fondly recall reading The Poky Little Puppy and Three Little Kittens (two of the first twelve 12 titles published), The Monster at the end of this Book (starring Grover) and Continue Reading
Movie review: Philomena
Losing a child is one of the most traumatic things that can happen to a person. You would get no argument on that count from Philomena Lee (Dame Judi Dench), a now elderly Irish woman who was forced to give up her son to adoption when she was a Continue Reading
Movie review: Populaire #StGeorgeOpenAir
Populaire, from first time French director Régis Roinsard, is that rare modern romantic comedy – one that seeks to emulate the oneliner-rich battle-of-the-sexes comedies of the ’50s and ’60s, such as the ones that starred Doris Day and Rock Hudson (Pillowtalk, Send Me No Flowers) … and succeeds. That is Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The imaginative world of Cardboard Box Office
So here’s a question for you. What would you do if you found yourself in a new country with a very new baby, more cardboard boxes that you can count and whole lot of time within the newly arrived at four walls of your home? Would you (a) start Continue Reading
Movie review: her
John Donne is rightly famous for observing that “no man is an island, entire of itself”, a sentiment with which a separated and soon-to-be-divorced Theodore Twombly ( played with engaging vulnerability and sweetness by Joaquim Phoenix), the protagonist in director Spike Jonze’s latest film, her, might well agree. Adrift Continue Reading