Movies

  Are We Officially Dating?, the first feature from writer/director Tom Gormican, and otherwise known as That Awkward Moment pretty much everywhere but Australia for some reason (had they already shipped the prints?), is a valiant attempt to remake the romantic comedy in the image of men. Which means that Continue Reading

  It is always profoundly sad when an icon of your childhood dies. Granted you didn’t know them personally but after being exposed to their work repeatedly in your formative years, and spending so much time with them, you feel as if you know them, as if they were one Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Pegg plays Hector, an eccentric yet irresistible London psychiatrist in crisis: his patients are just not getting any happier!  He’s going nowhere.  Then one day, armed with buckets of courage and an almost child-like curiosity, Hector breaks out of his sheltered vacuum of a life into a global Continue Reading

  Books have long been a source for movie makers, coming as they (often but not always) do with ready made stories, built-in audiences and brand name recognition (to use an awful marketing term). It is a process as old as cinema itself beginning with books like L Frank Baum’s Continue Reading

  Book to film adaptations are always fraught with some degree of risk. Cleave too closely to the original text and you’re accused of showing little to no artistic imagination; deviate too far from it and devoted readers and critics alike will wonder why you bothered in the first place Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) portrays a failed musician who was forced to become a pizza boy to make ends meet, Toni Collette (Enough Said) plays the tired mother of a disabled son, Pierce Brosnan (The World’s End) portrays a recently divorced, publicly shamed talk show host whose extramarital Continue Reading

  You know a film like Spike Jonze’s her has moved beyond simply occupying a few sessions a day in a cinema complex’s schedule and captured the zeitgeist’s attention when the parodies start appearing. Affectionate and in many ways reverential, they are a sign that you have connected with people in Continue Reading

  Mortality is never an easy thing for anyone to grapple with. But it carries even more sting in its tale when you’re the sort of person who think they’re ten feet tall and bulletproof, immune to the vicissitudes of life, flicking off a pronouncement of imminent death like you’re Continue Reading