A haunting, deeply affecting painful, and yet hopeful beauty suffuses every last meditative moment of Land, a film that tackles the often misunderstood issue of grief in ways both nuanced and confronting. Directed by Robin Wright, Land tells the story of Edee (played by Wright), a woman so consumed by Continue Reading
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Retro movie review: The Empire Strikes Back #StarWars #MayThe4thBeWithYou
Pity the sequel to a blockbuster first film. Like the second sibling in a family where the eldest born cured cancer, fed the world’s poor and made successful and beneficial contact with aliens, all before the age of five, a sequel to a massively successful movie has an almost crushing Continue Reading
Book review – The Empire Strikes Back: From a Certain Point of View by various authors #MayThe4thBeWithYou
The first three movies released in what has now been christened either the Star Wars Saga or The Skywalker Saga – these are now, of course, episodes four through six – are so imaginatively and expansively created that it is hard to imagine how you could possibly add anything further Continue Reading
Movie review: Stowaway
It makes sense that there is an abundance of films set in the near or far depths of space. It is, after all, one of the most hostile environments known to humanity, a place inimical to life where, if peril threatens, there are little to no options for rescue or Continue Reading
Mini mass of movie trailers: Luca, The Tomorrow War, Vivo
Let’s get away from the everyday! How so, you ask? Why with movies, I say, and especially these three movies which give you a chance to live out three impactful stories from the comfort of your own bed or loungeroom chair. Or even, heaven forbid, your commute on public transport Continue Reading
Movie review: First Cow
It’s a cold, cruel world out there, where friendship and companionship can be the difference between making it and losing everything all alone. That was a true back on the American frontier in the eighteenth century as it is now, something that First Cow, the latest film by writer and Continue Reading
Movie review: Love and Monsters
Who knew the apocalypse could be warm and funny? They are not, as a general rule, things you would normally associate with the end of the world which is characterised by lots of running, screaming, death, destruction or in the case of epidemics and such, lots of deadly, infectiously awful Continue Reading
All that glitters is undead? The cleverly soundtracked new trailer for Army of the Dead
SNAPSHOTArmy of the Dead takes place following a zombie outbreak that has left Las Vegas in ruins and walled off from the rest of the world. When Scott Ward (Dave Bautista), a displaced Vegas local, former zombie war hero who’s now flipping burgers on the outskirts of the town he Continue Reading
Say “Hi!” to the friendly neighbours there … Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (poster and trailer)
SNAPSHOT[Street Gang], which inspired by Michael Davis’ New York Times best-selling book of the name, chronicles the improbable origins and expansion of the groundbreaking show that not only changed children’s television programming, but had real-world effects on equality, education, and representation worldwide. The doc features more than 20 interviews with Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: We Broke Up, The Mitchells vs. The Machines, Drop Everything and Run
Ah, movies how we love thee! You give us all kinds of escape from the mundanity of everyday life and we are all the richer for your presence in our lives, especially when pandemics seem to go out of their way to make reality even bleaker than it is normally. Continue Reading