Movies

  At first glance there may not seem to be much of a connection between Divergent, the first film in a planned cinematic trilogy based on the much loved young adult series by Veronica Roth, and one of the most famous quotes about the Vietnam War. But as the story Continue Reading

  Emmet (voiced by Chris Pratt), the delightfully uncertain heart and soul of The LEGO Movie, is a thoroughly unremarkable construction worker. Which is, of course, exactly as it should be, in a film that happily takes just about every trope and cliche of the fantasy world, and with more Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT The latest film from writer-director John Carney (Once), Begin Again is a soul-stirring comedy about what happens when lost souls meet and make beautiful music together. Gretta (Keira Knightley) and her long-time boyfriend Dave (Adam Levine) are college sweethearts and songwriting partners who decamp for New York when Continue Reading

  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