Identity is a powerful thing and it sits, or rather the lack of it sits, at the heart of Angeliki Antoniou’s Green Sea, a movingly understated film that explores what it is like to forge a new life when you are not even sure who you are. Anna (Angeliki Papoulia) Continue Reading
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Movie review: Nowhere Special #sydfilmfest
Imagine if you will that you are a devoted dad in Northern Ireland named John (James Norton) who has devoted the four years of his son Michael’s (Daniel Lamont) life to being the best dad possible, investing your time between window cleaning gigs (you run your own business) reading to Continue Reading
Weekend movie poster art: Encanto and the magical gift on finding yourself
SNAPSHOTWalt Disney Animation Studios’ upcoming feature film Encanto tells the tale of the Madrigals, an extraordinary family who live in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. Each child has been blessed with a magic gift unique to them—each child except Mirabel. But when the family’s home is threatened, Mirabel Continue Reading
Christmas movie review: The Claus Family
As anyone who has ever experienced great loss will tell you – grief does not take a holiday. When you are wrapped in its necessary but deadening hold, it’s hard to remember that there was a time when you laughed, when you simply let yourself relax and be, and when, Continue Reading
Mini mass of animated movie trailers: Sing 2, Even Mice Belong in Heaven, Back to the Outback
My inner child is delighted. There’s a slew of brightly-coloured, cute and sweet, not to mention very funny and heartfelt animated features coming the world’s way, all guaranteed to make things better after another tough year in the bowels of the COVID pandemic. Happily, one of the three is Sing Continue Reading
Movie review: Eternals
Apart from their obvious love of a stupendously over the top action finales and stakes so epic the fate of the world repeatedly hangs in the balance, the one thing you can say about a Marvel Studios film is they have a strong moral centre. There is right and there Continue Reading
Movie review: Finch
You know those films that slowly but surely, and in the most authentic, intimately human of ways grab hold of your heart, bring it close and then pull it out of your heart until you’re an aching, weeping mess? Finch is one of those films. Heart-rendingly, beautifully, wonderfully so, and Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Tender Bar, India Sweets and Spices, Being the Ricardos
The Sydney lockdown may have ended but the PTSD of sorts has not. Hence, while I can go to the cinemas if I am so inclined, the reality is, bar a couple of bookings – Eternals on 6 November and No Time to Die on 16 November, I am quite Continue Reading
It’s time to play the music, it’s time to slay some orcs … The Muppet and Lord of the Rings go together surprisingly well
Have you ever wondered if The Muppets and The Lord of the Rings fellowship go together? Likely, no, but as Nerdist notes, the match up isn’t as strange as it sounds. “What are two great tastes that taste great together? The Lord of the Rings and The Muppets. At a Continue Reading
To infinity and … Lightyear debuts teaser trailer and poster
SNAPSHOTTo infinity and… The sci-fi action-adventure presents the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear—the hero who inspired the toy—introducing the legendary Space Ranger who would win generations of fans. Lightyear is directed by American animation filmmaker Angus MacLane, co-director on Finding Dory, and director of the shorts Toy Story of Continue Reading