When you walk into a Marvel movie, you can usually be pretty sure of what to expect. The necessary superhero contingent, either singular or massed, a leering, hubris-drenched baddy with the sort of lac of self-awareness that allows them to think they will emerge victorious, a narrative punctuated by Continue Reading
Life is a poisoned chalice in Tom Hardy’s Taboo
SNAPSHOT Set in 1814, Taboo follows James Keziah Delaney, a man who has been to the ends of the earth and come back irrevocably changed. Believed to be long dead, he returns home to London from Africa to inherit what is left of his father’s shipping empire and rebuild a life for himself. Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: EVE captures humanity’s final mesmerising moments
SNAPSHOT A 3D movie set in a futuristic & poetic universe without any dialog. The last moments of humanity on earth before nature resumes his duties. Eve is a short film shot and imagined in 3D with a professional filmmaking team, including Joséphine Derobe as the 3D stereographer, who Continue Reading
Movie review: A Month of Sundays
Frank Mollard (Anthony Lapaglia) has fallen out of love with life. The result of losing his marriage to TV medical drama actor Wendy (Justine Clarke) eight months earlier, and the recent death of his mother which has overwhelmed and consumed him, Frank is a listless, enervated man, lacking any Continue Reading
“Oh the Places it’ll Snow”: Game of Thrones gets a whimsical Dr Seuss touch
Oh the weather outside is frightful Adn the White Walkers are not delightful And since we’ve no place to go Let It (Jon) Snow! Let It (Jon) Snow! Let It (Jon) Snow! Granted those lyrics are from the famous song by lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne, “Let it Snow! Continue Reading
May the 4th Be With You: C-3PO’s life story told in a “Mr Roboto” by Styx way
Like all of us, C-3PO, one of the three iconic droids of the Star Wars universe – welcome BB-8 to C-3PO and R2-D2‘s side! – has a life story (one which now includes an explanation for that red arm he sports in The Force Awakens). From his humble origins Continue Reading
May the 4th Be With You: Star Wars The Force Awakens “as told by emoji”
Tempting though it might be to dismiss an entire movie told via emoji you should open your mind to the wonder and delight that is Star Wars: The Force Awakens rendered in galactically-approved ideograms. Created by Disney, this 3 minute re-telling of last year’s supremely successful newest instalment in Continue Reading
May the 4th Be With You: TIE Fighter tells Star Wars story from the Empire’s side
You know how they always say they’re always two sides to every story? While we’re not supposed to think in those terms in regards to classic good vs evil films like Star Wars where there’s a glossy, shiny good protagonist/s we should unreservedly cheer and champion (the Rebel Alliance Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Blood in the Streets” (S2, E4 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SURPRISING, AND ALAS NOT-SO-SURPRISING REVELATIONS* So it turns that Victor Strand (Colman Domingo) has a beating heart after all. True it’s a little twisted and self-serving and gruff and … but it’s THERE people and beating furiously for his one true love Tom Abigail (Dougray Continue Reading
Hunt for the Wilderpeople: NZ comedy with heart and a sense of fun
SNAPSHOT Raised on hip-hop and foster care, defiant city kid Ricky gets a fresh start in the New Zealand countryside. He quickly finds himself at home with his new foster family: the loving Aunt Bella, the cantankerous Uncle Hec, and dog Tupac. When a tragedy strikes that threatens to Continue Reading