Celebrate World Wombat Day with new ‘Aussie-mation’ Combat Wombat
This Thursday 22 October is World Wombat Day and what better way to celebrate than to see the fantastically colourful, adventure-packed Combat Wombat in cinemas NOW. Also avai...
Scoob! Review – Turn Off Your Mind if You Want to Enjoy This One
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Honestly never thought I would find myself saying this but after watching 2020’s Scoob! I much prefer the two early 2000s live-action films. At least they had M...
Onward Review – A Perfectly Mindless Fantasy for These Dangerous Days
Life sucks. Everything I write might as well start like that
from now until… whenever this current state of the world ends. I spent my last
week of social opportunity having a good final cinema day for who kno...
The Wishmas Tree Review – A Timely Celebration of Australian Wildlife
Despite being the home of heavy-hitter animated films like Happy Feet and Mary & Max, there’s precious few Australian animated films
being produced. There’s a fairly good reason why too: it’s bloody hard f...
Studio Ghibli on Netflix – Gateway to Timeless Imagination
On January 20th, 2020 Netflix made the
announcement to the world that they had acquired exclusive worldwide streaming
rights to the Studio Ghibli film library – unless you lived in Canada, Japan or
the U.S. (w...
Spies in Disguise Review – An Good Old-School Spy Flick, Just… Animated
“Why is this kids movie so scary?” my 5-year-old son Raiden, asked as we were about two thirds through Spies in Disguise.
I had to think deeply about an answer.
I thought back to the countless kids’ mov...
The Addams Family Review – Fun Gags, but Ultimately Toothless
Directed by Conrad Vernon & Greg Tiernan, The Addams Family stars Oscar Issac, Charlize Theron, Chloë Grace Moretz, Finn Wolfhard, and Nick Kroll as Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, and Uncle Fester, r...
Frozen II Review – A More Mature Film Than the First
Directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee (also the sole
screenwriter), Frozen II stars Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell as Elsa and
Anna, returning three years after the events of Frozen a little older
and wiser, ...
Celebrate Cinematic Brilliance with Palace Cinema Paradiso’s In Focus: Wes Anderson Festival
In the continuing battle between streaming services and cinemas, there's one director who has continually pushed out films that have demanded a cinema viewing: Wes Anderson.
From his auspicious debut film B...
Mary and Max Review – An Underrated Beauty of a Film
In 2004, Australian animator Adam Elliot won the Academy
Award for Best Animated Short Film for his 2003 clay-animation film Harvie
Krumpet. Enriched by the critical success of the short, Elliot set about on
h...