Prepare to see your kitchen as a killing field, the supermarket as a place of crushed and broken dreams and takeaway pizza as an exercise in violent dismemberment. For Sausage Party, Seth Rogen’s gloriously foulmouthed, absolutely hilarious tale of relgiously-devoted sentient food that discover their faith may have more Continue Reading
KAPOW! New animated 1960s-era Batman film is on its way
SPLATT! SPLOSH! BIFF! Holy past and present colliding Batman! Let’s face it – if you grew up in the ‘60s or ‘70s, the odds of watching some pretty quirky TV programs were pretty high. And so it was that as young boy growing in the 1970s one of the Continue Reading
Well hello there: Arrival shows the dangers and potential rewards of talking to aliens
SNAPSHOT Directed by Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Sicario), the film is based on Ted Chiang’s 1998 novella Story of Your Life with a script with Eric Heisserer (The Thing (2011)). When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team – lead by expert linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) Continue Reading
All hail the bookshop: survivor against the odds (curated article)
National Bookshop Day was held Saturday 13 August and I made a point of visiting my three favourite bookshops in Sydney … and yes, I bought a LOT of books in my favourite places in the world. Long may they live! ______________________________ This National Bookshop Day, Australia’s one-time Minister Continue Reading
Movie review: Tallulah
We all want to belong somewhere, and preferably, with someone. But life is not always that kind or generous, leaving people like Tallulah aka “Lu” (Ellen Page), abandoned at age 6 by a mother to a life spent scrabbling on the margins of society, adrift and alone. The eponymous Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Concept drawings for Star Trek Beyond
Star Trek Beyond, as the name implies, is a film where much of the action takes place in exotic locales far beyond our own solar system with a multi-layered ultra-modernistic space station that defies gravity and hangs together like a space-bound Escher painting and a rocky, arid planet where Continue Reading
Now this is music #74: Dog Orchestra, James Blake, Michl, Jazz Morley, Bishop Briggs
Love is, it’s true, a many splendoured thing. But it can also be fiendishly complicated, fraught, deeply emotional and caught in the kind of ebbs and flows that make navigating its pleasant course more tricky than a Hallmark card might lead you to believe. So wonderful, fabulous, exciting, joyful Continue Reading
You can’t take the (animated) sky from me: Stephen Byrne’s beautiful Firefly trailer
It is a common lament of Browncoats, those of us who LOVE Firefly, Joss Whedon’s cancelled-far-too-soon sci-fi western – yes the word “LOVE” must be italicised at all times such is our fervour – that there will likely never be another iteration of this wonderful show. Of course, you Continue Reading
Movie review: Love & Friendship
It’s easy to forget when you’re watching the plethora of Jane Austen adaptations in existence, and they are legion and growing like topsy by the second, that the author of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility was a woman of fierce intelligence, rapier wit and keen satirical inclination. In Continue Reading
You’re eating my nephew! Seth Rogen has fun in a supermarket promoting Sausage Party
SNAPSHOT Sausage Party is a raunchy animated movie about one sausage’s quest to discover the truth about his existence. After falling out of a shopping cart, our hero sausage and his new friends embark on a perilous journey through the supermarket to get back to their aisles before the Continue Reading