Movies

  “They wuz robbed!” It’s a cry you hear echo throughout the crowded corridors of the zeitgeist every time the nominations for an awards show are announced. Everyone has their own firm opinion on who should and shouldn’t have received a nod, and the anguished cries only amplify come the Continue Reading

  Great is the weight on any actor’s shoulders when they are required to carry almost an entire film on their thespian shoulders. But Mia Wasikowska (Stoker, Jane Eyre) is more than up to the challenge, bringing an enduringly strong yet restrained presence to the role of Robyn Davidson, who, Continue Reading

  Right so it’s time for bed time stories again. And you’d rather be attacked by a herd of ravenous zombies or watch one of those 3am informercials for brooms that also double as fat-free burrito ovens than read another sickly sweet book of politically correct fairytales. Well fear not Continue Reading

  Nebraska is a remarkable movie. Not least because director Alexander Payne (About Schmidt, Sideways) chose to film his exploration of a father (Woody Grant played by veteran actor Bruce Dern in fine form) and a son (David Grant, rendered with exasperated poignancy by Will Forte) finding a meeting point Continue Reading

  C. O. G. is a curiously lifeless film. It’s a particularly odd outcome when you consider it is based on one of noted essayist David Sedaris’ boisterously witty and incisive biographical pieces, which sparkle with verve and a thousand and one ideas and opinions. With material that emotionally and Continue Reading

  There are many things I enjoyed about 2013 (and some I did including losing my job: yeah, no, still don’t know where I put it! Boom! Tish!), and prime among them was Alfonso Cuarón’s mesmerising film Gravity, starring my favourite actor in the world (and in this case, orbiting above Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT A daring new film from internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Carter, Maladies charts the struggles of an unstable former soap opera star in 1960s New York as he tries to restart his floundering creative career. Hoping to find clarity and new purpose as a writer, he holes up with Continue Reading

  If you watched in awe as a certain company of dwarves and one initially out of his depth Hobbit called Bilbo Baggins rode atop an impressive flock of Thorondor’s Giant Eagles in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, wishing you too could sit aloft these might birds and see Middle Continue Reading

  I love bloopers! LOVE THEM. There is something endlessly enjoyable about watching professionals who get it so right so often forgetting lines, running into walls or simply losing complete and utter track of what they’re doing. And while their inclusion doesn’t work for every movie, there are some films Continue Reading

  “Everything you touch turns to shit. [You’re] like King Midas’s idiot brother.” This rather pithy character summation, uttered by Llewyn Davis’s (Oscar Isaac) one time married lover (and wife of close friend Jim played by Justin Timberlake) Jean (Carey Mulligan) after another ill-advised life decision by the aspiring 60s Continue Reading