Love, they say, is a many-splendoured thing. An admirable, impossibly romantic sentiment for most but not one shared by The Cherry on the Cake (la cerise sue le gâteau), a French romantic comedy that seems to regard love as more of a source of ongoing anxiety and complaint than anything else. Continue Reading
Movies
Ooh la la mes amis! Mickey Mouse’s new short Croissant de Triomphe
Mickey Mouse is back in the house my friends and I couldn’t be happier! After spending much of my childhood glued to the Wonderful World of Disney on Sunday nights way back in them thar olden days – otherwise known as the 1970s – and relishing the myriad of Continue Reading
Movie review: “Barbara”
Isolation is a harrowing state of being. It is, for most of us, an intolerable plane of existence, a denial of one of our most basic imperatives; that is, to form bonds with others. But for Barbara (Nina Hoss, appearing in her fifth movie for the film’s much revered Continue Reading
The quirky delights and perils of releasing your inner (video) “Goddess”
Release your inner video-blogging Goddess! Go on, you know you want to … Or do you? In the new Australian movie, Goddess, directed by Mark Lamprell and based on the play Sinksongs by Joanna Weinberg, Elspeth Dickens (Laura Michelle Kelly) is fairly certain she lost her goddess a long time Continue Reading
“Audrey”: The agony and ecstasy of waiting for love to arrive
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Audrey is a very unique and very funny female-driven comedy — like nothing movie going audiences have seen before. Taking place in real-time, the story takes us through a little over an hour and a half of a young woman’s (played by Sybil Temtchine, Ten Benny, Restaurant) day Continue Reading
The art of being a Muppet: the creative re-imagining of Jim Henson’s beloved creations
It’s an exciting time to be around if you’re a Muppets fan! They have shot back into the zeitgeist with a song and dance and a whimsical trade in knowing cuteness – adorable they may be but worldly-wise and pop culture savvy are they – thanks to the recent Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “I’m So Excited!” (a film by Pedro Almodovar)
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: A technical failure has endangered the lives of the people on board Peninsula Flight 2549. The pilots are striving, along with their colleagues in the Control Center, to find a solution. The flight attendants and the chief steward are atypical, baroque characters who, in the face of danger, Continue Reading
Movie review: “Side Effects”
Gazing upon its slick, elegantly-constructed surface, Side Effects looks every bit the taut psychological thriller it sells itself to be. And for the most part the substance of the movie, which is the final directorial effort of Steven Soderbergh if you take his recent oft-stated declarations that he is done Continue Reading
Stepping further into “Oblivion” (2 new posters + trailer)
MOVIE SYNOPSIS:“On a spectacular future Earth that has evolved beyond recognition, one man’s confrontation with the past will lead him on a journey of redemption and discovery as he battles to save mankind. Jack Harper (Cruise) is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “Prototype”
Directed by Andrew Will, The Prototype is action/sci-fi thriller movie that’s in pre-production, which means of course that we have some ways to go yet before it is dazzling us on the big screen. But, and yes I appreciate this is drawing an exceptionally long bow based on just Continue Reading