MOVIE SYNPOSIS: Marvel Studios’ Iron Man 3 pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy’s hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test Continue Reading
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Can’t wait to see: “Elysium”
Cinematic visions of mankind’s future usually go one of three ways. Either our successors are trapped in a bleak, dystopian wasteland where a dog-eat-dog mentality prevails and there is little hope of any real improvement (or a working lightbulb and you can forget about a picnic out in the Continue Reading
Movie review: “Gayby” (Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival)
Comedies are, by and large, notoriously hit-and-miss propositions. You are either presented with a witty laugh-out-loud script, ripe with side-clutching comedic possibilities that is rendered mute and barely tolerable by actors who are unable to bring the words to life with sufficient verve or timing, or you have highly Continue Reading
Sneak Peek: Jack the Giant Slayer (trailer + poster)
Jack the Giant Slayer, directed by X-men’s Brian Singer, is set to bring the fairytale of Jack and the Beanstalk to the big screen in suitably epic fashion. In keeping with the tendency of modern effects-laden blockbusters to modernise and amplify the original tale, Jack (played by Nicholas Hoult, Continue Reading
Movie review: “The Sex of the Angels” (Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival)
Love, it is often said, is forever. And while that much-quoted truism is taken as a given in director Xavier Villaverde’s film El Sexo de Los Angeles (translated as The Sex of the Angels on the official Mardi Gras program or slightly less literally as Angels of Sex on the trailer), Continue Reading
Pixar re-imagining the original “Star Trek”? Make it so.
It’s a great time to be alive my friends. Not just because of the, you know, “alive” part of which very few negative things can be said (apart from the existence of Reality TV and the continuing prevalence of raw tomato in salads), but, and this is also important, Continue Reading
A very moving poster from “Star Trek: Into Darkness”
Whoosh! Movie posters are on the move, quite literally, with Paramount leading the way with a, dare I say, futuristic – a wonky term at the best of times since if something doesn’t happen right now or in the past, it is by definition “futuristic” but I am going Continue Reading
Sneak peek: If you go out in the woods today, you’re in for a “Dark Skies” surprise
I am not normally someone who even contemplates watching a horror movie. While my housemate happily watches all manner of frightening films, sometimes before bed which even he admits is not the wisest course of action, I wisely steer away from them largely because (a) I hate being scared Continue Reading
All that glitters is Oscar: This year’s amazing Academy Awards poster
I am duly impressed. Rightly or wrongly, most people have an impression of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the august body behind the Academy Awards (this year’s event is on Sunday 24 February US time, hosted by Seth MacFarlane) as a staid body that values Continue Reading
Lessons well learnt: Pixar and the art of storytelling
When I am not indulging my expansive and ever growing love of pop culture, I am working at a writers centre in Sydney where one of my tasks is to gather all manner of articles on the art of writing, storytelling and creating beautiful written art and then tweet Continue Reading