Movies

  There are three things I now know after watching Seth MacFarlane’s (The Family Guy) first movie, ted: 1. To create a truly subversive movie, pair debauched douche bag behaviour with happy feel good 1950s Leave It To Beaver/My Three Sons-esque music 2. Giovanni Ribisi is now the go to Continue Reading

Enormously sad news today with news that Nora Ephron, gifted director, screen writer, playwright and author has died aged 71. Best known for cleverly written, intelligent, divinely romantic movies such as Sleepless in Seattle, When Harry Met Sally and You’ve Got Mail, Ephron passed away from pneumonia brought on acute Continue Reading

There is something deeply unsettling about life. We all feel it. It’s the sense that something is missing, that the pieces don’t quite fit together like we think they should; the feeling gnawing at the depths of our being that this, whatever this is, isn’t quite right. We do our best Continue Reading

  Prometheus is a movie with grand ambitions. That much is evident from the succession of operatically bold trailers that have swept across the internet in the months preceding the release of this movie, promising a movie of grand vision, lush visuals and heart-pounding action. And it is true that Continue Reading

Movies about parents struggling to deal with a gravely ill child, who faces a real likelihood of dying, are not meant to be magical, or uplifting, or even comically adroit. But this movie by actor/director Valérie Donzelli (Juliette), and also starring Jérémie Elkaïm (Roméo Benaïm), with whom she has a child, is Continue Reading

This is a romantic comedy that desperately wants you to love it wholeheartedly. From the quirkiness of the Meet Cute (where boy meets girl) where Violet (Emily Blunt) dressed as Princess Diana at a costumed New Year’s Eve party locks eyes across the room with a pink bunny costume-clad Tom Continue Reading

    At last a bigger-than-Ben Hur blockbuster bristling with intelligence, wit and humanity. I have to admit I was sceptical going in that it would be. For one thing, the movie had the malodorous stench of hype laying heavily across it. Secondly, snug within the giddy chaos of all Continue Reading

French cinema has a remarkable gift for crafting understated movies that, despite their under-the-radar approach to storytelling, manage to explore the depth and totality of human experience in a way that Hollywood can only dream about. Delicacy is a worthy heir to this innate French sensibility for subtle yet powerful narratives. Continue Reading

I have long suffered from blockbuster phobia. Too many times I have believed the hype, bravely ventured into the popcorn strewn, choc top infested local multiplex only to find my hopes dashed on rocks so inane they feel like hollow tubes of polystyrene as they crush beneath me. So burned Continue Reading

Expectation can be a curious animal. One one hand it can fill you with joyful anticipation, your mind and pulse racing as you consider how wonderful the show you’re about to watch/the album you’re about to listen to/the book you’re about to read etc will be. The possibilities seem limitless, Continue Reading