Movies

  Movie trailers can be tricky things to get right. Include too much and audiences will likely conclude, rightly or wrongly, that they have already effectively seen the movie and that there’s no need to mortgage their home and grab a tub of pop corn large enough to level a Continue Reading

  The next instalment in J. J. Abrams’ reboot of the legendary Star Trek franchise – one of the few times where the word “reboot” didn’t mean a needless tinkering with an already impressively executed idea – Star Trek Into Darkness is due to hit theatres in May 2013.   Continue Reading

  I have an uneasy feeling that it’s going to be a very long three years waiting for the new Star Wars movie to hit the theatres. Not, I should hasten to add, because I am such an ardent fan of the “galaxy far, far away” that the idea of Continue Reading

  More zombies indeed! Surfing an endless wave of popularity for the undead, who frankly would otherwise have a hard time getting invites to parties, World War Z, starring Brad Pitt, and based on the gripping book, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks (yes Continue Reading

  It becomes clear within about five minutes of the opening credits why The Sessions, written and directed by Ben Lewin,  captured both the Audience Award (U.S. Dramatic) and a U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The moment we hear the first witty, self-deprecating Continue Reading

  French cinema has never been afraid to cast aside earnest political correctness in favour of telling a raw and unvarnished story, a tradition largely maintained with worldwide hit, The Intouchables (which has taken almost a year to reach Australia for some reason). I say largely because while this comedy-drama, directed Continue Reading

If you’re a devoted Muppets fan like me – I have been since The Muppet Show graced TV screens way back when – you will have been delighted by The Muppet Movie which came out last year and re-introduced Jim Henson’s cheeky loveable creations to a whole new generation of Continue Reading

  There is nothing so wonderful as when two of your favourite things in the world – no I am not talking about white chocolate and caramel although their culinary marriage is truly blessed by the gods and I can totally see how your mind went there first; mine always Continue Reading

  Robot & Frank is the hopeful, shiny yin to the apocalyptic yang of the Terminator franchise. Set in a near future where the beneficial use of robots is commonplace in almost sphere of life, it tells the story of Frank, a retired cat burglar in strident denial of his Continue Reading