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
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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
Sneak peek: Mike and Sully do some learnin’ at “Monsters University” (trailer + poster)
I am a huge Pixar fan. Ever since my all time favourite animated film Toy Story premiered way back in 1995, triggering a renaissance in animation that hasn’t abated since, I have been in love with the gorgeous look, intelligence and humanity of Pixar movies. Though the production house is Continue Reading
Movie review: I Give It a Year #StGeorgeOpenAir
I Give It a Year is one very confused movie. Written and directed by the Dan Mazer, who is perhaps best known as Sacha Baron-Cohen’s writing and production partner of long standing, it aims, somewhat unsuccessfully, to be all things to all moviegoers. In part, and this forms the Continue Reading
When Ryan Gosling met Dr Who
So news hot off the movie-making press is that Matt Smith (aka Dr Who) … has been chosen to star in Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, How To Catch a Monster … which also stars Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) … as a single mother who Continue Reading