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
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Mini-mass of movie trailers: Lapsis, Atlantis, Supernova, The Wanting Mare, Bliss
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
Movie review: Penguin Bloom
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
The world is broken: New poster + trailer for Raya and the Last Dragon
SNAPSHOTRaya and the Last Dragon takes us on an exciting, epic journey to the fantasy world of Kumandra, where humans and dragons lived together long ago in harmony. But when an evil force threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, that same evil Continue Reading
Movie review: The Croods – A New Age
The far, far past was a dangerous time for humanity. What with carnivorous, hyper-coloured kangaroo/armadillo hybrids, jagged ice trees that surge from the ground with no warning, landscapes that range from deserty and rocky to dangerously giant bug-filled and earnest post-cave dwelling hipsters, there was a lot that could go Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The touching search for love in Unbreakable
SNAPSHOT“Unbreakable” is the story of Barbara the Bunny. When she begins to persistently cough, “Quality Control” at the toy factory labels her “defective,” and so her search for treatment begins. She goes from shop to shop to no avail, until she discovers a loose string of yarn that takes her Continue Reading
Movie review: High Ground
Films, by and large, and this is by no means a hard and fast rule, either fall into two distinct camps – those you watch and those you experience. High Ground, a superlatively affecting Australian film, directed by Stephen Maxwell Johnson to a screenplay by Chris Anastassiades (from a story Continue Reading
Movie review: My Salinger Year
In an idealised world, pursuing your dreams is a thing of ethereal perfection, a waftingly hopeful sensation that is equal parts sigh-inducing wonder and a tenacity to succeed that always pays off and is never less than astoundingly and soul-enrichingly triumphant. Alas, we beings with feet of dream-hollowing clay do Continue Reading
Crack them open! Easter Eggs revealed for The Mandalorian and Soul
If you consume any kind of pop culture media in our postmodernist, digital, information saturated age, you will be well acquainted with the concept of “Easter eggs” which are defined, as per Wikipedia, as “a message, image, or feature hidden in a video game, film, or other, usually in electronics, Continue Reading
Movie review: Godmothered
If it were possible, and to be fair, she is only one woman (though an extraordinarily gifted one at that), it should be mandated that Jillian Bell be cast in as many movies as can accommodate her. There is something about this actress, who first made it on many peoples’ Continue Reading