Movies

  Upsetting the status quo is never an easy proposition for anyone but it becomes exponentially more challenging in the suffocatingly intense surrounds of a small town where everybody knows everyone and everything. That’s the situation facing Jay Swan (Aaron Pederson), newly returned from detective school in the “Big Smoke”, Continue Reading

  It’s full speed ahead in cinema-land right now with a tsunami of amazing movies coming our way thanks to the studios’ desperate need to get as many movies out before the end of the year so they qualify for the awards season in early 2014. With all those amazing Continue Reading

  You might have noticed that I have an inordinate fondness for people who take the accepted form of something and turn it, ever so slightly or with envelope-tearing joie de vivre, on its head. Such is the minimalist but exquisitely colourful work of Polish artist Michal Krasnopolski who I discovered Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT “In Labor Day, Kate Winslet delivers an award-worthy performance as a depressed single mother, who along with her young teenage son Henry (Gattlin Griffith) have their lives changed forever when they offer a wounded man a ride. The man (played by Josh Brolin) turns out to be an Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Lunar is set in a strict robot-patrolled Los Angeles in 2057, and is centered on a man who is arrested after trying to steal bread for his family and is sent to the penal colony on the moon. He must then become the first man to escape from Continue Reading

  Thor: The Dark World, Marvel’s latest entry in its ever-expanding movie franchise universe, is a film that shouldn’t work as well nor be as much fun as it eventually is. Directed by Alan Taylor (Mad Men, Games of Thrones), who takes over from the more Shakespearian-inclined Kenneth Branagh who Continue Reading

  We all do it – fashion all or part of the often unpalatable realities of our lives into forms more pleasing to the eye and less troublesome to the soul. But Jeanette Francis aka Jasmine French (Cate Blanchett), the titular Blue Jasmine of writer and director Woody Allen’s latest Continue Reading

  If you think that Chris Traeger (Rob Lowe) from NBC’s Parks and Recreation is the height of amped-up super-duper positivity, then you haven’t met Emmet (Chris Pratt), from The LEGO® Movie, an ordinary, everyday Lego guy who does jumping jacks pretty much straight out of bed, ecstatically pays $37 Continue Reading