Movies

If you are a fan of director Wes Anderson, it will surprise you precisely not at all that there is a great deal of theatrical whimsicality in his latest film, The French Dispatch, or to give it its full playfully long title, The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Continue Reading

As memorable catchphrases go, it’s hard to go past “Who ya gonna call?” which is followed, without usually a second’s hesitation, by “GHOSTBUSTERS!” Such is the heady power of nostalgia for this venerable and much-loved franchise, that simply uttering that single catchphrase or sighting the vivid red and white ghostly Continue Reading

Why remake a perfectly good, emotionally resonant film in another language just because you can? It is one of the questions for the ages, and usually is succinctly answered by “There really was no need”, something that could well be said about CODA, a remake of the 2014 film La Continue Reading

SNAPSHOT‘The Multiverse is a concept about which we know frighteningly little.’ Following the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home and the first season of Loki, Dr. Stephen Strange’s continuing research on the Time Stone is hindered by a friend-turned-enemy, resulting in Strange unleashing unspeakable evil. Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in Continue Reading

Good lord but I need to escape from reality right now. As the pandemic grinds on and on, and people are either blithely pretending it’s BAU (it’s not – pre-2020 has gone forever, sorry), or carefully stepping out into the “new normal” or choosing to soft lockdown and hide from Continue Reading

Life has a way, especially in the midst of a neverending pandemic, of making you feel as if no good can ever come from it. Grinding mercilessly and ceaselessly on, it makes demand after demand without once feeling as if it giving anything of much value back ; it is, Continue Reading

Some stories are so big and complex that they almost defy being told. “Almost” being the operative word here; of course Frank Herbert found a way with Dune, his 1965 novel which has deservedly earned iconic status as a breathtakingly vital piece of science fiction. It is the film of Continue Reading

Once more COVID has locked me out of cinemas. This time it’s the Omicron variant running rampant, and while an official lockdown isn’t in effect in Sydney, or anywhere in Australia for that matter, most people are choosing to stay home and avoid public places of any kind. This aversion Continue Reading

Cats rule. Sorry dogs, you might be adorable and man’s best friend and rescue Timmy from a well like it’s going out fashion, but it’s true – cats rule and it’s seems only fair that popular culture reflect that. Even, in the case of Jurassic Park but with a cat, Continue Reading