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.
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
Here I am, the sequel defender! I didn’t set out to claim this title, but it’s simply occurred this way. Disney went for over 60 years only producing one animated feature sequel (The Rescuers Down Under in 1990), and now … Continued
Meeeaan Girls! When I first saw they were remaking Mean Girls, I thought it was absolutely shameless! Not only had Hollywood completely run out of ideas, but Tina Fey was merely backing up that grubby little dump truck for another … Continued