Movies

  If the institution of marriage is ever looking for a PR agent to burnish its reputation to the world at large, it would do well to avoid the services of one Gillian Flynn. The author of the bestselling book Gone Girl, upon which this beautifully-wrought if emotionally-unnerving adaptation by acclaimed Continue Reading

  Star Wars is, let’s face it, the granddaddy of all iconic science fiction tales, a “genre defining classic” in the words of Mashable, that must be watched as often as is humanly possible. The only trouble is we’re all so busy these days what with the new Golden Age Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT From Disney comes two-time Oscar winner Brad Bird’s riveting, mystery adventure Tomorrowland, starring Academy Award winner George Clooney. Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank, jaded by disillusionment, and Casey, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets Continue Reading

  * This post first appeared on An Online Universe * I am a rom-com tragic. (It’s an odd juxtaposition of terms since (a) romantic comedies are supposed to be all Meet Cute to happily ever after ending with only a minor third act detour into sadness of any kind Continue Reading

  There is something pleasingly, imaginatively dark in the drinking water at animation studio Laika, whose latest stop motion release The Boxtrolls (based on the book Here Be Monsters! by Alan Snow) follows in much the same storytelling vein as its previous films Coraline and Paranorman, both of which were firmly Continue Reading

  Ask anyone who’s been an adult for longer than about five minutes if life has ever disappointed them, and the odds are you will get, with varying degrees of emotional candour, a shaking of the head, followed by a prolonged sigh and a knowing glance that suggests the business of living never Continue Reading

  It’s been over a year since we last feasted our eyes on some emotionally-rich, well-told feature length animation from Pixar (2013’s Monsters University) and I feel SAD (I’ve missed their beautiful stories) … And ANGRY (at the wait) … and FEARFUL (there won’t be another film ever) … and Continue Reading

    Going into space is not for the fainthearted. I am not saying that from personal experience of course since (a) I am not Neil Armstrong or any of the other 23 men who ventured to the moon during NASA’s golden age of lunar exploration, (b) Laika, a dog Continue Reading

  Australian cinema is nothing if not brave and brutally frank, a reflection of a national psyche that is, by and large, willing to tackle an issue rather than leave it happily unattended. And while this narrative embracing of the elephant in the room often pays dividends, it can also result Continue Reading