Movies

SNAPSHOTIt’s hard to find a director with a more distinct visual style than Wes Anderson. In this video we’re going to learn how to recreate it photographically. …What are the elements of Wes Anderson’s visual style that make him so recognizable? (courtesy Laughing Squid (c) Imitative Photography) There is so Continue Reading

Diving into a Rian Johnson mystery is like being plunged, in all the best possible ways, into a maelstrom of brilliantly executed ideas, fantastically well-realised characters who brim with flaws and vigour and a storyline so robustly intricate you glory in its enticing complexity and almost clap with glee as Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTAfter the events of Ms. Marvel (2022), superheroes Carol Danvers, Kamala Khan, and Monica Rambeau begin swapping places with each other every time they use their powers, and must team up to determine why. The Marvels is directed by acclaimed American filmmaker Nia DaCosta, director of the films Little Woods Continue Reading

How do you deal with the trauma of a messy, romantically-scarring break-up? Cry in a public unisex toilet block in a “private moment” that’s anything but? Break into your boyfriend’s art-riddled apartment to retrieve an LP that you claim has sentimental value? Or try to pretend everything’s okay when it’s Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTRecent college graduate Jaime Reyes returns home full of aspirations for his future, only to find that home is not quite as he left it. As he searches to find his true purpose in the world, fate intervenes when Jaime unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of Continue Reading

If we’re honest, most of us fall into ruts without even realising it’s happened. Life kicks off into adult gear, and dares us to keep up or fall behind, and so we find ourselves on a weird existential hamster wheel of sorts, one made up of jobs and bills and Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTWes Anderson’s latest film Asteroid City takes place in a fictional American desert town circa 1955. The itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition) is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events. Asteroid City is directed by acclaimed Continue Reading

Finding a place to belong, and by extension, people to belong to, is central to what makes us human. We are a tribal people, and without the emotional touchstone of those whom we consider family, we can find ourselves strangely unmoored, our experience of human interaction truncated by being rendered Continue Reading

If ever you needed proof that I have eclectic taste in movies, may I present this post as Exhibit A right through to Z. In just three movies, you have a rom-com – likely garden variety but warmly sweet and uplifting, anyway – a kids animated feature (hello Christmas outing Continue Reading