Want to practice safe social distancing? It’s easy: just pretend you’re in a Wes Anderson film. (synopsis (c) Little White Lies via Laughing Squid) There is a gorgeous artistic sensibility to every Wes Anderson film, one that manifests in snappy, quirky dialogue, idiosyncratic visual flourishes and characters who seem to Continue Reading
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COVID-19 retro movie festival: Adult Life Skills #MovieReview
With COVID-19 cutting a swathe through just about everything worldwide, it’s no surprise that cinema is being as affected as anything else. In just one day, one of my favourite cinema chains temporarily closed, the Sydney Film Festival was cancelled, the French Film Festival was postponed and my other favourite Continue Reading
COVID no more! A mash-up of film and TV clips that playfully address life in a time of pandemic
SNAPSHOT“Here’s a fun little video I cut amongst these strange weird times we’re in.” (producer at Austin, TX post-production house Cut to Black) We live in wild and crazy times. A single powerful virus is currently taking the lives of thousands of people who deserved many more years with their Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The raw, aching longing of Raymonde or the Vertical Escape
SNAPSHOT“Raymonde is really fed up with peas, aphids, dirty panties and her kitchen garden to dig. After all, she would prefer sex, and love, and the immensity of the sky…” Raymonde or the Vertical Escape (also titled Raymonde ou l’évasion verticale originally in French) is a stop-motion animated short film Continue Reading
Weekday pop art: When pop culture and reality seamlessly merge
SNAPSHOTI visit film locations and re-create scenes through the use of a camera & some imagination! …Film has been a huge part of my life since I was small and the passion has only increased as I’ve grown. I’ve always had a thirst for adventure and creativity so it was Continue Reading
Wanna get away from your family? Come join The Willoughbys
SNAPSHOTConvinced they’d be better off raising themselves, the Willoughby children (Tim, Jane, Barnaby A & B) hatch a sneaky plan to send their selfish parents on vacation. The siblings then embark on their own high-flying adventure to find the true meaning of family. The Willoughbys is directed by animation filmmaker Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: It’s not a yolk – cute cartoon characters end up on eggs
SNAPSHOTJapanese mom Etoni Mama turns fried and boiled eggs into adorable cartoon characters. Etoni Mama is also a culinary artist in her own right and a published author. The title is “Saiji-ki Foods For Children” This book is full of recipes that offer a fun and delicious take on seasonal Continue Reading
Movie review: Queen and Slim
All of us come to a point in our lives where a decision is made, often a bad one, where life is never even remotely the same again. In his recently-released book, Sharks in the Time of Saviours, Kawai Strong Washburn captures with poetic truthfulness what it is like in Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: Uncorked, Lost Transmissions, Jungle Cruise
We live in exceedingly weird times. With COVID-19 cutting a swathe of disruption across the globe, the issue for many cinemagoers right now, quite apart from whether you should go to a pplace of public gathering such as a cinema at all, is whether you will actually get to see Continue Reading
Movie review: A Friendly Tale (Le bonheur des uns…) #FFF2020
If a good friend of yours quietly told you that they had written a novel and were excited by this new found burst of creativity and that no less than France’s most famous writer, impressed by their talent, had encouraged them via Facebook to pursue their dream, you would be Continue Reading