SNAPSHOT After coming into contact with a potentially fatal virus, a bitter professional wrestler is forced to isolate himself in his childhood home for 21 days. (synopsis via Cinema Australia) Back when the most recent Ebola epidemic was ravaging the three countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, the Continue Reading
The Get Down: You can rule the world
SNAPSHOT The Get Down focuses on 1970s New York City – broken down and beaten up, violent, cash strapped — dying. Consigned to rubble, a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers are nothings and nobodies with no one to shelter them – except each other, armed only with verbal Continue Reading
Marvellous mass of movie trailers: Other People, The Light Between Oceans, The Hollars, Loving, La La Land
You may have noticed there’s a lot going on in this thing we call life. Which is why I think there’s an endless array of movies to tell its stories – all the heartache, laughter, silliness, gravity and pain, and all the nuanced and messy emotions inbetween. So here Continue Reading
Movie review: Looking the Movie
Coming back after quite some time away to a place and people with whom you were once intimately connected is always a fraught undertaking. No matter how well you’ve tended to those connections, there is always a sense of dislocation, a realisation that you still belong but no longer Continue Reading
Already Dead: Zombies are people too you know
SNAPSHOT Already Dead is a short mockumentary about recovering zombies. Fifteen years after a zombie outbreak (ZE Day) Zombies live among us, working 9-5 jobs, holidaying in Barbados and living “life” to the fullest. A documentary crew have been given exclusive access to a group of Zombie’s day-to-day “lives”. Continue Reading
Movie review: Absolutely Fabulous
At heart of every sitcom worth its salt, has been a dark and inner core, an exploration of ideas, emotions or philosophies that underpins all the froth and hilarity that encircle them. In the case of Absolutely Fabulous, the story of PR mogul Edina “Eddy” Monsoon (Jennifer Saunders) and Continue Reading
Talking as Fast as I Can: Gilmore Girls Lauren Graham has a new book in the works
If there is one thing Lauren Graham has mastered after playing Lorelai Gilmore , not once but twice – Gilmore Girls returns on Netflix this November with 4 new stand alone episodes – it’s talking fast. Wonderfully, gloriously, cleverly, articulately, pop culture reference-laden FAST. Having seen her interviewed on Continue Reading
Want to get Lost in Space all over again? Of course you do
Everything old is new yet again and this time it’s all happening way off the map in outer space. In fact, no one exactly sure where it will be happening – well the characters anyway. That’s right avid spacefarers (which includes yours truly), Lost in Space, which didn’t exactly Continue Reading
Max Rose: Jerry Lewis confirms that sharing love is more important than anything
SNAPSHOT In his first leading role in more than 25 years, Jerry Lewis will star in indie drama Max Rose. The film follows retired jazz pianist Max Rose (Lewis). Though his career wasn’t everything he hoped for, Max always felt like a success because his beautiful, elegant Eva (Claire Broom) Continue Reading
Was it all Ab Fab? What happened when Saunders met Lumley
It’s easy to assume when you see two actors together such as, oh I don’t know, let’s say for argument’s sake, Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley, that they’ve always enjoyed brilliant on-screen chemistry and off-screen friendship. But in this delightful clip from The Graham Norton Show, promoting the new Continue Reading