Here's your two for one review of The Last Jedi and Twice Upon A Time Doctor Who Christmas Special. Because, to quote the classics, why can't we do both? If you think, like me, too much about these things the themes of each converge on memory, life and loss, and decisions in quiet moments that change … Continue reading Review: Double the hot takes
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Review: Blade Runner 2049
Big spoilers ok? There you have been warned. Blade Runner 2049 is like ice cream. It's good but unnecessary. I happily lived without a second helping of BR, but since it was offered, I took it up. However, if I had been unfamiliar with ice cream, this way of presenting it would have not been … Continue reading Review: Blade Runner 2049
Review: Much have I seen and known
Maybe at another time I will provide a more considered and thorough critique of the following film and its performances, but right now it is too much with me and all I've got are raw feelings. Do you remember when you were young? When you rushed home from school full of energy, even after an … Continue reading Review: Much have I seen and known
Mind in the artificial body
Yes, I saw Ghost in the Shell. Although, I'm not sure why. I was confused about why almost everyone spoke English, except for one deeply capable older gent with the odd haircut. I was annoyed by why characters had to keep repeating 'ghost in the shell' or any number of variations of this throughout the … Continue reading Mind in the artificial body
Review: Assassins Creed
If you are looking to support South Australian born and raised creatives you can read my stories, and/or, you can watch Assassins Creed, directed by Justin Kurzel, of Snowtown and Macbeth fame. How about that hey? Anyway, Assassins Creed was a glossy and gritty and expensive looking first chapter of a story that looks like … Continue reading Review: Assassins Creed
Review: Piecing it together I
For about another week, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image is home to The Nightingale and the Rose, a short film and exhibition reinterpreting the story by Oscar Wilde. The film is an animated lyrical piece featuring the art work of Del Kathryn Barton with filmmaker Brendan Fletcher. You don't need to be familiar with … Continue reading Review: Piecing it together I
Review: Crimson Peak
It's big news in Australia that apparently Tom Hiddleston is here filming the eleventy billionth Marvel film, Thor: Ragnarok. Although, I'm wishing it was just Ragnarok. In a not completely unrelated event, I finally got around to watching the luscious looking but ultimately ultra-Freudian Gothic-by-numbers Crimson Peak. It's a bit like Phantom of the Opera, … Continue reading Review: Crimson Peak
Fake Authenticity / Real Theatricality
Since seeing Justin Kurzel's MACBETH the other day, I've all these half-formed paragraphs and attempted poetic phrases turning in my mind in an effort to do it justice and properly sum up the experience. It was still and moody, and balletic and brutal in the depiction of war and bloodshed. There was theatrical cinematography with … Continue reading Fake Authenticity / Real Theatricality
Review: Mad Max – Furious and Furiouser
I didn't expect George Miller's Mad: Fury Road to be all things to all people. But we're through the Looking Glass people and it just might be, if you don't mind explosions, vehicle chases and violence along with everything else. If Avengers: Age of Ultron was occasionally visually annoying, in its fast moving CGI-ness, Mad Max was overwhelming … Continue reading Review: Mad Max – Furious and Furiouser
Review: Upon discovering The Fall (2006)
Falling in love again Big screen cinema is for spectacle. For Avenging super heroes and three-dimensional stuff being thrown at you by two-dimensional characters. It's fun and makes a lot of money and is all ok by me. Then there are films that are crafted in dedication to a singular vision, using every cinema reference. … Continue reading Review: Upon discovering The Fall (2006)
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