Movies

  On the whole, grandparents usually fare quite fare in stories. Think Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother or any one of the thousands of cosy nannas and granpas who populate Hallmark movies. They bake cookies, they beam with welcoming saint-like happiness, and they indulgently let their grandchildren do all the things Continue Reading

  If you think Frodo had his hands full with Sauron and his black power-obsessed minions, then ponder how busy he, Aragorn, Legolas, Gandalf and assorted other Hobbits might have been if Darth Vader had decided to invade the fair lands of The Shire and its neighbours? Might have been Continue Reading

  It doesn’t take long to realise that The Diary of a Teenage Girl, written and directed with a playful yet dark intensity by Marielle Heller, is not your typical quirky indie teenage drama. Granted, the 1976-set film, based on the book The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Continue Reading

  Phone calls – we either love ’em or hate ’em. Waiting for a good friend to confirm the details of your all expenses paid, big birthday dinner at the best restaurant in town? LOVE ‘EM. Boss calling at 11.24pm to check why you use a comma instead of a dash Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT The Good Dinosaur asks the question: What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? In this epic journey into the world of dinosaurs, an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. While traveling through a Continue Reading

  “Time passes. That’s for sure.” (Eileen Myles) Elle Reid (Lily Tomlin) is not having a good day. With her past coming up to meet her, as it always does, to remind her things aren’t as good as they once were, and her present taking the turn for the unexpected Continue Reading

  Who hasn’t read Charles Schulz masterfully-written, warmly-engaging and cleverly-insightful comic strip Peanuts and wished they could somehow step into its ink-defined panels? Have you ever wanted to lean on Schroeder’s piano, like Lucy does, and ponder the meaning of life, the universe and as much of everything as a Continue Reading

    All too often life can feel like one big compromise. Only the bravest among us seems able to resist the irresistible pull of compliance and self-censorship, and yet even they can be guilty of bending in a thousand small ways to inauthentic demands not their own. It is the nature of Continue Reading

  I loved Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) pretty much from the moment I saw it. There was something intoxicating about the way Ferris got way with all the sorts of things that I, good straight laced Christian lad just finishing university, would never have dreamed of attempting (but secretly wish Continue Reading