2024 Reviews – All of Us Strangers
You know, I think the premise for this one, is that a guy shows up at his old childhood home, and is welcomed inside by friendly impressions of his parents, when they would’ve been around his age, and it all … Continued
2024 Reviews – Ferrari
Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) is the founder of the automotives company, Ferrari, in 1957. While some car manufacturers use racing cars to further the sale of their commercial vehicles, Ferrari is all about producing the fastest cars for racing as … Continued
2024 Reviews – Wish
“When you Wish upon a star… makes no difference who you are…” 🎶 This movie came out on Boxing Day in Australia, and I’m finally getting to watch Wish. I remember seeing the teaser trailer for Wish and thinking, “finally, … Continued
2024 Reviews – Poor Things
Seen The Lobster? I have not. Seen Killing of a Sacred Deer? Neither far-sighted nor near! But I have seen The Favourite, where I infamously (at least in my mind) overlooked Olivia Colman’s performance in lieu of Rachel Weisz and … Continued
My 10 Least Favourite Movies of 2023
You already know what I’m going to say – I obviously couldn’t see every movie this year and so this is just a list of my least favourite movies, out of the ones that were at least initially appealing enough … Continued
My 10 Favourite Movies of 2023
I know, I say the same every year, but it’s been a great year for movies (and so much more than last year). I’ve had a genuine struggle knocking my list of 84 movies down to just the ten best, … Continued
2023 Index: An A to Z for 2023!
These movies are like my babies now. They’re a part of me. I cared for them, spent valuable time and brain power on them, and as a new year prepares to dawn, I present them to you, in a neat … Continued
2023 Reviews – Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire
Apologies to Micheal Bay, but Zack Snyder has got to be the biggest rockstar director we have, right? He makes the scene with a young boy’s sex dream in Sucker Punch back in the day, and produces a near shot-for-shot … Continued
2023 Reviews – Maestro
Maestro, please don’t be controversial. Since it’s the end of the year, I’ve got lots to do, so I don’t want this review to have to blow out to 2,500 words just to explain how and why it got under … Continued
2023 Reviews – Wonka
The cinema’s choc-top range was all out of Snozzberry! 😱 Unscrupulous! 😄 I’ll be honest with you – as this year is closing down, and as I catch up with what I’ve missed, it occurred to me about a week … Continued