Film and culture. Not content.
At the beginning of every election cycle, I get a higher level of anxiety than usual. Now, I’ve lived with anxiety for a long time and have been moderately able to manage it, but when the prospect of…
There are not many comedies depicting people living with a disability. And for a good reason, with actors such as Ben Stiller and Johnny Knoxville playing to the lowest common denominator in their ass…
Films are a reflective medium. They present our world – our lives – back at us through skewed perspectives with a fresh realisation of how our society operates. Ever since the dawn of celluloid, cinem…
Released in 1989, filmmaker Ann Turner’s debut feature Celia is another entry into the “fantastical coming of age” subgenre, which includes the baroque, playful fantasy of Jim Henson’s Labyrinth (1986…
Seth Rogen takes co-lead duties in Long Shot, as the only-in-Hollywood named Fred Flarsky, a hyper-indie journalist who routinely tells big business to ‘go fuck themselves’ via whatever thousand plus…
Neil Patrick Harris would be proud. The legen… wait-for-it… dary Barney Stinson persona that Harris wore so well in How I Met Your Mother has been taken up by none other than – Larrakia actress Mirand…
Meet Jim Cummings: this generation’s Steven Soderbergh and Kevin Smith and David Gordon Green. A voice that has arrived to shake up and rattle the cage of independent American cinema. One that aims to…
Yen Tan’s 1985 may be presented in black and white, giving the illusion that this is a story that takes place long in the past, but this is a narrative that is still startlingly relevant in today’s so…
Yes, bloody yes, Lauren (Miranda Tapsell) exclaims after overly excited fiancé-to-be Ned (Gwilym Lee) bends down mid-sentence to ask her one simple question. Will you? Well I, too, say yes, bloody yes…
Worldwide cultural heritage was harmed with the devastating destruction of the 850-year-old Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Footage of the spire burning and collapsing is horrifying to watch, with so m…
It’s a story that sounds too bizarre to be real: a successful business woman transforms her life after her marriage of seventeen years is suddenly brought to an end. In a bid to rebuild her life, she…
As much as I shouldn’t be, I’m comparing Neil Marshall’s Hellboyto the Guillermo Del Toro efforts of the mid 2000’s. I just can’t help myself. What Del Toro did with those films was create a wonderful…