SNAPSHOT[This video examines] two fundamental elements of character design—want and need. Pixar’s film Soul puts these aspects of story structure right on the surface, and demonstrates why they’re so critical to creating a compelling, emotional character arc. (synopsis via YouTube (c) Lessons from the Screenplay) Soul is a beautiful, funny, Continue Reading
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The short and the short of it: The bear and fleeting fame of The Moon’s Not That Great
SNAPSHOTAfter an astronaut returns from her lunar mission to find that the public lost all interest in the moon, the stories of the astronaut, a film director, and a bear intersect. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) There is a compellingly beautiful heart to this most attractively animated of short films. The Continue Reading
Underdogs forever! Luca releases gorgeous teaser trailer
SNAPSHOTSet in Italy, Luca is a fun and heartwarming story about friendship, stepping out of your comfort zone and two teenage sea monsters who experience a life-changing summer. This coming-of-age adventure will tell the story of a young boy experiencing an unforgettable summer with his newfound best friend in a Continue Reading
Movie review: Cowboys #queerscreen
While you could be forgiven, when viewing the events of the last few years, that humanity has gone backwards with their collective foot on the pedal, films like Cowboys reassure you with rich humanity and quietly-spoken but exuberant heart that we have not lost complete sight of what we could Continue Reading
Movie review: Space Sweepers (승리호)
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
Movie review: The Dig
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
Retro romantic movie review: Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist #ValentinesDay
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
The short and the short of it: MaskHoles and a humourous clash of robotic colleagues
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
Movie review: Minari
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
Movie review: Greenland
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