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.
The Pope has died, and Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is in charge of overseeing a conclave, where Cardinals from all over the world have been sequestered to vote on the next one. However, moments before the Cardinals are meant … Continued
I’ve said it already, but the best double feature movie experience I ever had was Call Me By Your Name into The Florida Project. We thank Luca Guadagnino for the first one, but director Sean Baker gets credit for the … Continued
Ingrid (Julianne Moore) finds out an old friend, Martha (Tilda Swinton), is in the hospital, with a cancer diagnosis, undergoing an experimental treatment with swirling results. But Martha has had enough, and asks Ingrid to accompany her on a quaint … Continued
2025 is here, but 2024’s award season still rolls on! And now is when movies really hit their straps – most of the best movies of the year come out in Australia in January. I’ve seen teasers for Nosferatu, that … Continued
This yearly post is becoming a pièce de résistance for Today Junior – the mega highways for my entire collection of feelings and thoughts from the calendar year. I want to start dropping these additional mini reviews scattered in here, … Continued
Do you remember when the Smile trailer gave away the best scare of the movie? The driver side window moment! I watched Smile with a bunch of mates who hadn’t seen it, and they jumped through their skivvies, while I … Continued
If I take my fan boy cap off for a while, I am able to see how Jon Favreau was able to make The Lion King (2019) his own, on a second viewing. I have argued that these Disney live-action … Continued
Following an elaborate introduction, a young Sergei Kravinoff (played by Levi Miller, and later Aaron Taylor-Johnson), and his brother Dmitri (Billy Barratt/Fred Hechinger), are taken out of school by their father, Nikolai (Russell Crowe), after their mother dies. Nikolai takes … Continued
Here’s Venom, the Alvin and the Chipmunks of the superhero genre, in the sense that “I can’t believe this franchise is already a trilogy” 😄 Actually that’s harsh, mainly because I haven’t seen the Chipmunk movies to value their worth. … Continued
Every film in moviedom owes a debt of gratitude to The Wizard of Oz. And they know it, with about 1 in 5 movies referring directly to The Wizard of Oz in one form or another. Whilst I’ve seen an … Continued