Movies

If you were to use the likes of Oprah and Tony Robbins are your guides, you would have to assume the world is awash in victorious people, staring down all manner of existential perils and emerging, self-realisation trophy in hand, on top every single damn time. But as we know Continue Reading

New beginnings are always a curious thing. They come with the shiny promise of everything new and unsullied, and yet lurking somewhere deep within, is the knowledge, however energetically repressed, that the past is never truly left behind. Whatever the truth of this observation, in The Extraordinary Journey of Celeste Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTDarby (Heather Matarazzo) finds herself in trouble with the law, and is sentenced to house arrest. Now she must serve 30 days in the home she used to share with her ex-boyfriend Mo (Amir Talai), that he now shares with his new fiancé. Stuck is directed by American actress-turned-filmmaker Jillian Continue Reading

There is a sacred contract between filmmaker and audience member for anyone who goes to see a romantic comedy – they will take you away on a magically romantic carpet ride to a place where “meet cutes” trounce Tinder and obstacles are overcome with a quick trip to the airport Continue Reading

If your expectations of a biopic of John Elton include a healthy dose of bright, colourful theatrics and orchestral indulgence set to to epic, then Rocketman, written by Lee Hall and directed by David Fletcher, will not even come close to disappointing. Inventive and imaginative to degrees that delight and Continue Reading

Is it possible to be both light and frothy and say something about the human condition? Especially if you’re a romantic comedy, a genre known for its romantic froth-and-bubble but not great existential musings on life, the universe and everything? Someone Great, part of the ever-increasing cascade of films from Continue Reading