Watching 12 Years a Slave, director Steve McQueen’s masterfully evocative depiction of the story of Solomon Northup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man from Saratoga, New York kidnapped into slavery in the mid-19th century American South, is as you might expect, a profoundly confronting, and deeply moving experience. From Continue Reading
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#MuppetsMostWanted #GoldenGlobes #parodypromo #247awards #YES
Can someone please get me a job with The Muppets promo team please? Like immediately, if at all possible. The calibre, wit and originality of promos pouring out of the people responsible for reminding that Muppets Most Wanted is coming to theatres soon – 27 March in USA and Continue Reading
5 things I loved about this year’s Golden Globe Awards
I love the Golden Globe Awards. They are ballsy, brassy and fun, the Sydney to the Oscar’s Melbourne – that only makes sense if you live in Australia but trust me Sydney and Melbourne are the Golden Globe Awards and the Oscars respectively in spirit – and a great Continue Reading
The Simpsons pay tribute to Hayao Miyazaki: Let the anime magic ensue
One of the most delightful surprises of my moviegoing life was deciding on a whim one day to see a Japanese animated movie Spirited Away, from the famous Studio Ghibli, which until recently was headed by the justifiably legendary Hayao Miyazaki. Despite studying Japanese at university for three years Continue Reading
Movie review: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
It is a rare moment indeed when you walk out of a movie and feel like you’ve been a part of something magical, or even somewhat life changing. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty provided just such a moment, a surprise from a movie that on the basis of Continue Reading
Let’s head to Party Central with Muppets Most Wanted new promo and short!
SNAPSHOT Disney’s “Muppets Most Wanted” takes the entire Muppets gang on a global tour, selling out grand theaters in some of Europe’s most exciting destinations, including Berlin, Madrid, Dublin and London. But mayhem follows the Muppets overseas, as they find themselves unwittingly entangled in an international crime caper headed Continue Reading
Up, up and away with Jupiter Ascending (full movie trailer)
SNAPSHOT Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning toilets and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Continue Reading
Movie review: August Osage County
Families of all stripes and sizes are riven by a multiplicity of fracture lines, a reality made starkly evident in August: Osage County, based on the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play of the same name by Tracy Letts. You would want to hope though that there are not Continue Reading
Movie review: The Hobbit The Desolation of Smaug
There is something akin to high ritual to entering the cinema to see another in Peter Jackson’s sumptuously-realised visions of Tolkien’s Middle Earth. You must suitably prepare yourself for another epically-long journey into the wilds of the lands of the dwarves, the elves, the orcs and of course Gandalf Continue Reading
Movie review: Frozen
It is a rare thing indeed to walk away from any movie feeling utterly besotted and charmed, but Frozen manages this act of animated seduction with aplomb, using a winning combination of an engaging storyline with consequences, heartfelt and funny characters, and songs that fairly demand the movie be Continue Reading