There’s a huge amount of buzz on the interweb today about a little six minute sci-fi film from an aspiring German film director, and not without good cause. It is, quite simply, amazing. Made over seven months and drawing from established sci-fi properties like Terminator and Battlestar Galactica without Continue Reading
Movies
“The Big Bang Theory” boldly goes “Into Darkness”
Well not quite. In fact they go to Bakersfield in this week’s episode (entitled appropriately enough “The Bakersfield Expedition”) for a comic book convention, all dressed up in their finest Star Trek: The Next Generation regalia, and have to get some help from the townsfolk in a diner when Continue Reading
Movie review: “Life of Pi”
Life of Pi is one of the most beautiful movies I have ever seen. Visually, and narratively, even musically, it is a wonder and a delight for the senses, a triumph for director Ang Lee who took a novel largely regarded as “unfilmable” – I am not sure by Continue Reading
Movie review: “Les Miserables”
In a world where suffering accosts us around just about every corner, Les Miserables is a reminder that hope is possible, though it must be tenaciously clung to, in even the most dire of circumstances. The graphic realism of Academy-Award winning director Tom Hooper’s impressive screen adaptation of the hit Continue Reading
High on popcorn and candy: my 5 favourite movies of 2012
I am made of popcorn … and choc-top ice creams … and yes, big bags of brightly-coloured lollies (candy) … At least that’s the way it feels given how much I spend at the local cinema, especially towards the end of the year and over the Christmas break, taking Continue Reading
Merry Christmas to all … and to all a good night (of TV/music/cinema/reading)
Merry Christmas everyone! I have had a wonderful year writing what feels like a million and one enthusiastic posts about pop culture and as I permit myself to relax a little (from blogging at least) while I race around the east coast of Australia visiting family for Christmas, I want Continue Reading
On the 12th day of Christmas … I pondered the enduring popularity of “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens
It would be a rare person indeed who hasn’t read, seen, or even listened to, a version of Charles Dickens’ classic novel A Christmas Carol, which has remained wildly popular ever since its publication on 19 December, 1943, and which shows no sign of slipping off the zeitgeist radar any Continue Reading
On the 11th day of Christmas … I found TV shows and movies I love rendered in LEGO
Let’s hear it for tenuous links to Christmas! Yes I am basing the inclusion of the following highly imaginative recreations of TV shows and movies in LEGO on the fact that it is (a) Christmas and (b) it was at this very festive time that I was often given Continue Reading
On the 7th day of Christmas … I preview 5 movies I can’t wait to watch over the summer break
My gloriously long two week summer break – trust me compared to the one or two days I have taken off here and there over the last year of frantic work, it is indeed epically long – is so close I can almost it (if you must know it Continue Reading
Mashup! “Toy Story” merges seamlessly with “Into Darkness”
Oh joyous news! To my eternal delight – “eternal” being defined as anything that catches my attention long enough to stop me looking at Twitter again for at least five minutes – phoenixdark9 on YouTube has mashed together Toy Story 2 (and a small bit of Toy Story 3) with Continue Reading