Indie films are good for my soul. While there are those who like to mock their earnestness or their stylistic artifice, there is often great meditative depths to these films, which give their narratives the necessary time to explore issues like grief and loss or a deep longing for connection Continue Reading
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“How do you tell someone you’re Spider-Man?” Teaser trailer lands for Spider-Man: No Way Home
SNAPSHOT“Following the events of Spider-Man: Far From Home, Peter Parker’s life and his reputation is turned upside down following his identity being exposed at the hands of Mysterio. Seeking help from Stephen Strange to try and fix everything, things soon become much more dangerous and Parker must find what it Continue Reading
Movie review: In the Heights
Maintaining hope in the face of adversity, or simply a lack of substantial and real change, is taxing for anyone. Even more so, when you have placed everything on the line when it comes to fulfilling your dream and all you see for your effort of incremental advancement that seems Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: About Pie, Falling For Figaro, The Survivalist
Thank goodness for streaming huh? With lockdowns a feature of many people’s lives even in the latter half of 2021 – the Sydney one which I am in is in week 8 with about another 8 to go – it’s good thing we don’t have to rely on cinemas anymore. Continue Reading
Movie review: Gunpowder Milkshake
Whimsical threatening title aside, Gunpowder Milkshake is one hell of a violent film. That is not necessarily a bad thing since much of the murderous mayhem takes place in almost operatically balletic fashion, cartoonishly lit by primary colours that instill a trippily colourful film noir aesthetic to proceedings. But the Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: The Pebble and the Boy + Summer Days, Summer Nights + Dating & New York
The latest COVID lockdown in Sydney is still very much on, and so while I may not be able to go to the cinema, I can still dream of seeing movies there. Thankfully, the trailers keep on coming which makes all the dreaming remarkably easy. And while the actually going Continue Reading
“What’s normal, anyway?” Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
SNAPSHOTInspired by true events, New Regency & Film4’s Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is the movie adaptation of the hit musical. Jamie New is 16 and doesn’t quite fit in—instead of pursuing a “real” career he dreams of becoming a drag queen. Uncertain about his future, Jamie knows one thing for Continue Reading
Movie review: Vivo
There is a joyous vivacity that bursts out of every last musical and narrative pore in Vivo, an animated triumph that is fuelled by the wondrous musical talent of Lin Manuel-Miranda, a story that deftly balances the very silly and the immensely heartfelt and an animation style as apt to Continue Reading
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings … now with added posters + featurette
SNAPSHOTMarvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings stars Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, who must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization. The film also stars Tony Leung as Wenwu, Awkwafina as Shang-Chi’s friend Katy and Michelle Yeoh as Jiang Nan, as well as Fala Continue Reading
Movie review: Jungle Cruise
If there is one thing movies have had an undeniable lock on since their earliest days, it’s the ability to transport us far away from the world we left outside the cinema doors and do in a way so absolute and complete that only books come close to matching it. Continue Reading