Movies

There’s a gloriously good key scene in Free Guy which nails precisely what this joyously manic film is all about. After a series of wake-up shots, where Guy (Ryan Reynolds in garrulously vulnerable form) has woken up at the same time in the exact same way with hallmarks of the Continue Reading

Life is, when you stop long enough to think about it, a series of transitions. We don’t necessarily view them that way since much of life is one hurried leap from one moment to another but with hindsight firmly engaged and a rare second to fall into introspection, you can Continue Reading

One of the great tropes of romantic comedies, indeed any love worth its red-toned, Cupid-heavy salt, is the headily appealing idea that opposites attract. There’s something inherently beguiling about the notion that two quite disparate people can find enough common ground on which to build a romance for the ages, Continue Reading

When you love someone’s creation with the unvarnished innocence and enthusiasm of childhood, and yes, this can persist well into adulthood since it retains for perpetuity the shape and ardour with which it was formed, it’s hard to conceive of its creator as someone with raw, troubled humanity, in other Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTA love letter to journalists set at an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city, centering on three storylines. It brings to life a collection of tales published in the eponymous The French Dispatch. Inspired by Anderson’s love of The New Yorker, and some characters and Continue Reading

Escape to the stars! Or stay here on Earth … Either way science fiction offers the kind of thoughtfully intriguing escape many of us are craving right now in world that often feels altogether too dystopian for anyone’s taste. In these three films, we see the world in which we Continue Reading

If you think of the Marvel Comic Universe (MCU, for all its angst and blockbuster bombast, as the glossy, pretty member of the superhero family where bad things happen but it’s all reasonably tidy by the end, then the DC Universe is its scrappy, angry, dark and messy sibling, the Continue Reading

Another week and more trailers to remind that us, all evidence to the contrary, there is still life and creativity and vigour out there in the world. Thankfully since Sydney remains in hard lockdown, two of the three in this triple pick of trailers are available via streaming which means Continue Reading