I love new years! I am most definitely not one of those cynical old souls who reaches New Year’s Eve, harrumphs with Scrooge-like intensity and balefully glares at the next 365 days, convinced they will be just as awful as I imagine them to be. While I am old Continue Reading
Movies
LOOK BACK: The 10 movies I loved most in 2013
I need to make it very clear from the outset that Sharknado is not one of the 10 movies that most struck a chord with me this year*. Yes I have used it as the title shot of this post but frankly it was all I could do to Continue Reading
Happy last minute pop culture Christmas greetings!
Right it’s Boxing Day here in Australia and I hadn’t planned on any more Christmas posts but I kept forgetting all sorts of fun festive posts by my favourite TV shows, music artists and movies and had to share them. You’re Ho! Ho! Ho! welcome. Continue Reading
On the 11th day of Christmas … I pondered which 5 movies I would watch over the holiday break
One of the things I love most about the festive season is the chance to wind down, stop the clock (well, the rat race one at least) and do as little as humanly possible while consuming as many calories as I can manage (hello Cadbury chocolate sultanas/raisins!). That is Continue Reading
Check in with Wes Anderson: The Grand Budapest Hotel trailer + poster
SNAPSHOT The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune Continue Reading
Going bananas with excitement! Dawn of the Planet of the Apes poster + trailer
SNAPSHOT A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will Continue Reading
Johnny Depp is the ghost in the machine: Transcendance teaser trailers
SNAPSHOT “Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have Continue Reading
Movie review: American Hustle
If there is one thing that David O. Russell’s sublime new movie American Hustle, establishes very early on, it’s that appearances can be deceiving. As this affectionate, and at turns dramatically intense and comically over the top tribute to the 1970s opens, we see Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), a small Continue Reading
Movie review: Saving Mr Banks
It’s often been observed that history is a malleable property, written by the victors, with facts added or deleted as the authors of a particular account see fit. Naturally, this doesn’t just apply to the great epic moments of the past such as the fall of Rome or Genghis Continue Reading
Down the wormhole: Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar has a trailer and a website
Christopher Nolan is an insanely talented filmmaker. A man who dares to weave the big, pressing existential questions of life into both the Hollywood blockbusters and indie movies he makes, he is passionately committed to his craft, wanting to make art as much as a successful movie. It’s an Continue Reading