Movies

I don’t watch sport as a rule and even though it is sporting juggernaut that bestrides the globe, that included ignoring the Superbowl (save for Rihanna who was red hot fabulous!). However, that exclusion of that epic sporting event from my life did not include the trailers release during the Continue Reading

Returning to a film after a considerable gap in time, in this case 23 years, is a risky business. Will the film be as rose-coloured glasses good as you remember it? Will you sigh in all the places you did the first time around, laugh in all the others and Continue Reading

Being emotionally affected by a movie is hardly a unique experience. In fact, when you go to see a film, you want to be moved in some way whether it’s eliciting a laugh in a comedy, a romantic swoon-worthy sign in a rom-com, or a gasp of fear or amazement Continue Reading

One of the criticisms levelled at romantic comedies aka rom-coms more often than not is that they are light and ephemeral as their frothy subject matter. It’s an unfair dig in many respects since most rom-coms are simply there to transport us from the ugly, loveless everyday and into a Continue Reading

I love going out to the movies. Yes, sometimes thoughtless idiots talk through the film and there’s always popcorn on the floor and there’s the effort of getting out and about BUT it’s lovely just being with other people and experiencing a film together that is so magically intoxicating. But Continue Reading

We are accustomed in this age of constant fame and unceasing veneration of achievement to assume that the great and the iconic among us have always been that way. And while, yes, true greatness or talent is often embryonic in a person, the idea that their rise to their current Continue Reading

Love is a wonderful thing. Whether it finds it forms in a romantic comedy, or a touchingly comedic story, it’s good for the soul to sit through a film where the world actually feels like it could be good, funny and lovely. There’s certainly been enough of the dark stuff Continue Reading

There’s something enormously energising about watching a thoroughly in-love-with-life musical. For a few brief hours, you are taken from a world in which disappointments are legion, pain is manifest and hope, joy and justice must fight for limited space, into one where things may look bleak for a time but Continue Reading