Movies

  In the much-storied, trope-heavy world of superhero movies, Marvel has, for what feels like an eternity, been the 800-pound gorilla, throwing epic, blockbuster film after epic blockbuster film at audiences, each one seemingly more successful and zeitgeist-dominating than the last, its erstwhile rival DC Comics always consigned to a Continue Reading

  The act of creation is generally seen as a wholly positive thing, the beginning of new life, with the myriad possibilities that entails. But in Alien: Covenant, which more than successfully bridges the lacklustre Prometheus, and the later Alien films, it’s an altogether darker affair, one that strips creation bare Continue Reading

  If you’ve watched any of the Alien films, and let’s face it most of us have (and have the blanket forts we hid in when things got scary to prove it – wait, was that just me?), you’ll be well aware that getting a face hugger attached to your Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Communications company NET wanted to show how making new connections helps you get out of a funk. They wanted to emphasize their social work as part of the company’s ethos. They proposed a new take on a classic tale. We used a blend of filmed puppetry to give Continue Reading

  By any measure, Alien is a scary, tense thriller. It’s hard not to watch the crew of the Nostromo succumb one by one to the xenomorph stalking them with horrific precision – except for you Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and Jones the intrepid crew cat – without goosebumps, hands over Continue Reading

  When a film has been as long a time coming as 20th Century Women has been one its long and winding trip to the cinemas of Australia, you begin to wonder if it will match the hype and breathless reviews that precede it. In many cases, films don’t meet Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Based on the New York Times bestseller, Wonder  tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time. (synopsis via IMDb) When it all comes down to it, all any Continue Reading

  Balancing snark and sweetness is never an easy undertaking in storytelling, with two quite disparate elements either slipping one way or the other out of balance, or failing to get at all, leaving you with confused characterisation, a muddled narrative and ultimately, half-baked, listless story. But in the case Continue Reading