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.
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
We’re back in the cinema for a Disney animated classic! Apart from the poster in the cinema lobby, I’ve seen nothing in the way of promotion or discussion involving this movie. Nothing. Nada. Nichte. Niente. Nichto. Raya and the Last … Continued
Well here’s a movie where I’ve avoided trailers like the dickens. Denis Villeneuve is directing? I’m already there. I don’t need marketing, or myself, building up any false expectations in my head ahead of seeing the grand scheme of this … Continued
I think I caught Last Night in Soho on its last night in cinemas – that’s a story. Everybody tells me that Edgar Wright is amazing, but I suck, because apart from Baby Driver, the only other E. Wright movie … Continued
‘Knock-knock, and let the devil in…’ I may have found the first Venom a little underwhelming but that accompanying Eminem track hits hard. I’ve started to become optimistic with sequels recently, because I’ve realised that movies can learn from their … Continued
As a boy, Nat Love (Jonathan Majors) watched his parents gunned down in cold blood by the ruthless villain Rufus Buck (Idris Elba), and a second man, with a scorpion tattoo. Now the man with the scorpion tattoo is dead, … Continued
When I went and saw Old in the cinema, the trailer for this movie blew me away. The Night House; a movie that would not have been on my radar if not for that evening. When Melbourne’s latest pandemic came … Continued