The habitually cynical and mistrusting excepted, people are by and large quite willing to believe the best of someone else. It makes sense – we want a world in which people are who they say they are, in which those in whom we placed our trust and with whom we Continue Reading
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The end of our world is the beginning of his: Thoughts on Sweet Tooth
MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD … AND GLORIOUSLY EXCESSIVE SUGAR CONSUMPTION AND TOY DOG MONITORING … Watching a must-see series about the near-end of the world caused by a virulent flu-like disease at a time when the world is still struggling to get on top of a virulent flu-like disease must seem Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Suicide Squad, The Duke, The Harder They Fall, Twist, Joe Bell + The Green Knight (featurette)
As I put this post together, Sydney, Australia, where I live, has just, and I mean just entered a fortnight lockdown to combat the spread of the incredibly virulent Delta strain of COVID-19. It’s exhausting to be back in another lockdown but what makes it worse is that there are Continue Reading
Movie review: Luca
If you were ever bullied at school for not fitting in, you will be painfully familiar with the peculiar pain that comes from being singled out as different. Even if you love who you are, that kind of sustained negative barrage, especially one borne from unthinking bigotry, can have an Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Settlers, Gunpowder Milkshake, Reminiscence
It’s been a year. Wait, way more than a year and still the COVID pandemic nips at our heels, dives into our lives at times and causes chaos. Who wouldn’t want to escape from that particular crapfest? Granted, these films are not exactly a warm bubble bath on a cold Continue Reading
Movie review: Army of the Dead
For beings that are essentially nothing more than reanimated corpses, zombies are doing rather nicely at the whole evolving to a higher life form thing. It’s highly unlikely Charles Darwin had them in mind when he penned Origin of Species, but momentous scientific breakthroughs in understanding aside, zombies have taken Continue Reading
Notes on a scene: John Krasinki breaks down the thrilling start of A Quiet Place II
SNAPSHOTFollowing the deadly events at home, the Abbott family must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence. Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk Continue Reading
Happiness is belonging: New trailer and poster for Swedish animation gem Ape Star
SNAPSHOTJonna is a feisty young orphan who wants to be adopted more than anything. But when her potential new mom drives up to the orphanage, she gets a big shock when the door opens and a gorilla steps out! The ape and girl quickly overcome their physical differences. But will Continue Reading
Movie review: A Quiet Place II
There are, so the cliched-inclined tell us, only two things that are certain in life – death and taxes. To this exceptionally short and likely inaccurate list, a great many people might also add, that the sequel to a hit movie will inevitably be a woeful and unmitigated mess, or Continue Reading
Movie review: The United States vs. Billie Holiday
Can you contain the searing truth and undeniable essence of a powerfully true story in a less than adventurous vessel? Usually not, and yet in The United States vs. Billie Holiday, directed by Lee Daniels to screenplay by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, that is essentially what happens as we Continue Reading