Movies

  I am not usually a subscriber to the adage that “they don’t make ’em like they used to” since I firmly believe that, while old movies/film/books are valuable parts of the pop culture canon, they are not the sum total of human creative expression, and are certainly not the Continue Reading

  Just when you have resigned yourself to the apparent fact that there is nothing new under the romantic comedy sun, along comes director Peter Templeton with a completely off-the-wall take on young love. And it all centres on testicular cancer. Yes, you read that right. Testicular cancer. If ever Continue Reading

  The Oz books by L. Frank Baum are a magical series that transport you to a land filled with wonder and creatures strange from our dreams. They are populated not just by the Wizard, the cowardly lion, the tin man, the scarecrow and Dorothy but by a plethora of Continue Reading

With Comic-Con almost upon us – well those who are attending that is; it remains, frustratingly, on my pop culture bucket list – there’s a veritable torrent of wonderful reveals from the purveyors of all the TV shows and movies that make a geek boy like me smile in anticipation Continue Reading

  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