Movies

Where did all that childlike wonderment and excitement about an idealised future go? Once upon, in our ’50s-inspired, retro fevered dreams about what might lie down the road, we pictured flying cars, clean cities full of gleaming skyscrapers and rooftop gardens and people in luminously white smocks walking through parks Continue Reading

Archaeological are by their very nature spectacularly impressive things. Whether it is the discovery of First Nations art in the Kimberleys that is tens of thousands of years old or, for the purpose of this review, an Anglo Saxon ship and gold artifacts in Suffolk, we can’t help but be Continue Reading

Depending on where you look in popular culture, love is either a many-splendoured thing, torturously complicated or an agony beyond all belief. It is not, despite all the romantic comedy storytelling out there that lauds the transcendent beauty and wonder of falling in love, seen to be a simple and Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTTwo co-workers return to work during the pandemic. One annoyingly disregards the rules while the other annoyingly adheres to them. As the week wears on, nerves get frayed, circuits get shorted and the situation explodes. What follows is an inventive, yet vengeful solution to the entire problem. (synopsis via Vimeo) Continue Reading

As an articulation of hopes and expectations go, it is hard to go past The American Dream. As an idea at least; in practice, of course, as with any headily idealistic thought given voice by people, it is often deeply and unequally flawed in its delivery, more akin to a Continue Reading

We are accustomed when sit down to watch a disaster movie to the fact that spectacle, horrific, viscerally terrible spectacle, will win out over emotional nuance and robust, multi-dimensional characterisation almost every time. It’s part of the deal from filmmakers of this genre – we give you a ringside seat Continue Reading

Quirky and heartfelt are two qualities I value most highly in a film. If you can offer both these wonderful things, and throw in some great visuals and stunning good performances, I am home and hosed. That’s why these three films appeal. They have a certain offbeat sense of self, Continue Reading

There is utterly beguiling about falling into a cinematic story, letting its long and winding narrative settled over you, immerse you and take you deep into its storytelling wonder. Given the fact that the pandemic continues to wreak havoc in ways big and small across the globe, we need this Continue Reading

If you were to be given a description of the basic premise of Penguin Bloom in broad, top level brushstrokes, you could well be forgiven for thinking that it’s another in a long line on sweetly inspirational, sentimentality run amuck cinematic stories that tug mightily at the heartstrings, rip your Continue Reading