Movies

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

Identity matters. Nothing abhors a vacuum more than a person trying to determine who they are, and who they will be as a result, and it’s this quest for getting to the heart of self that powers the affecting momentum of Mixtape, a film that also digs deep into the Continue Reading

Humans, as a species, are a happily delusional lot. While we are fiercely intelligent (for the most part: COVID may challenge that notion among certain segments of the population) and capable of successfully tackling anything we put our mind to – we didn’t climb to the top of the evolutionary Continue Reading