Movies

  One thing is readily apparent within minutes of Noam Murro’s 300: Rise of an Empire portentous exposition heavy opening and that is its origins as one of the legendary Frank Miller artfully designed graphic novels. Graphic it most certainly is, almost immediately in fact (although in no way a fitting Continue Reading

  Whether we realise or not, all of us launch on this strange journey called life with expectations aplenty, which, depending on our luck or dogged persistence, will find some fulfilment or die a slow and suffocating death. Or if you’re forty year old Lorenz Meran (Fabian Krüger), a Swiss Continue Reading

  Time is so annoyingly finite. In a perfect world of endless time and minimal sleep, I would be watching all the movies, #allofthemovies!, and doing my best not to overdose on Maltesers, popcorn and choc tops. But alas, there are only so many hours in the day and so Continue Reading

  Adapting any story, regardless of its literary source, into a big screen film, especially one with a budget as big as Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, is an exercise fraught with a thousand degrees of barbaric difficulty. No matter how you slice or dice its plots, themes or characters, someone, somewhere Continue Reading

  This year is shaping up as another banner year for science fiction with a host of releases on the schedule including Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (6 November AU/7 November USA), UK production The Machine (25 April USA), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Transcendence, The Prototype (date unspecified) and even Continue Reading

  It would be tempting to call The Grand Budapest Hotel, writer/director Wes Anderson’s latest gleefully whimsical excursion into grand and imaginative storytelling, the icing on his creative cake, were it not not such an obvious reference to the pastries which are a recurring motif of the film. And yet it’s Continue Reading

  Frozen, one of the best films Disney has released in years and rightly regarded as an instant animation classic, is everywhere it seems, much like the ice that Elsa (Idena Menzel aka Adele Dazeem), the Snow Queen keeps throwing around throughout the beautiful film. “Let It Go”, the standout Continue Reading

  You look exhausted. Why don’t you sit back a spell, grab some popcorn and check out these trailers for five movies, and one beautiful short, that will make you laugh, think, feel and come alive again in the way that only good cinema come. It’s a mixed bag true Continue Reading

  A lot of amazing pop culture goodness is available at the annual SXSW gathering in Austin, Texas with a plethora of movies, bands, parties and interactive sessions to take in. Out of the many reports flooding out of this year’s just-concluded event, a post on Mashable about an exhibition Continue Reading