Watch, then read, unless you don't care about SPOILERS! I love to discuss character and story, which is often difficult to do without touching on specific scenes or a movie's ending.
I was rewatching Murder on the Orient Express the other night (Death on the Nile is coming) and I couldn’t believe that Olivia Coleman has a small and practically silent part in it, filmed just before she blew up in … Continued
Where to begin in 2022. Choices, so many choices! I think I’m hearing that West Side Story is a masterpiece, and must be seen on the big screen to soak in the colour and sound. So, West Side Story, I … Continued
So here we stand, 82 movies in the bank, the New Year has arrived, and all that’s left to do is talk about la crème de la crème! 2021; another challenging year for cinema – Melbourne had another months-long COVID … Continued
The great Norm McDonald once thought of Carrot Top in the same way I think of these movies – ‘box office poison’. I don’t mean in a monetary sense, like he meant it, no; but in the way that watching … Continued
Netflix presents or Netflix presents, considering this movie came out on Christmas Eve 😁 I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling 2022 (and let the record show, I was the first to make that Taylor-Swift-pun), but there’s one more … Continued
The fourth and final Marvel Cinematic Universe movie of the year and I really don’t know what attitude I’m supposed to have going into this. The MCU is still kicking goals after Avengers: Endgame, and Spider-Man: No Way Home is … Continued
So I hear that Lin-Manuel Miranda has directed a movie musical and I’m like, ‘sweet, I’m in’. Five minutes in, I’m like, ‘wait… is this a musical bio-pic of the guy who created Rent?!’ I smile wide, and sink back … Continued
The power of the dog, is a curious thing; make a one man weep, make another one sing. Or, so I’ve heard. Or maybe that’s ‘love’. Anyhow, here is Jane Campion’s new movie to straighten me out. In 1925, we … Continued
The silly season is upon us, and with it comes an influx of movies setting their sights on award recognition. Hasn’t Netflix gone hard in December, with Tick, Tick… Boom!, The Power of the Dog, and Don’t Look Away in … Continued
My cinematic catch-up season is well under way, trying to touch on as many big movies that I missed throughout the year as I can, but Malignant needs an angry pitstop. James Wan’s Malignant – after the murder of her … Continued