A Quiet Place is the second recent film that transforms a post-apocalyptic monster movie scenario into a highly effecting human drama. The other film is Cargo and coincidentally, the male leads in both these film, John Krasinski and Martin Freeman, started playing essentially the same character in different versions of the TV show The Office. In A Quiet Place, John
Read moreA Wrinkle in Time is the long-awaited cinema adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s1962 children’s sci fi fantasy novel. As director Ava DuVernay emphasised in a pre-movie address, the film is aimed at tweens and focused on their interests and concerns: identity confusion, bullies, first romance, the desire to see magic enter their dull suburban lives and the belief that their personal
Read moreLove, Simon pursues a similar ‘teen outsider’ path to a host of films, from John Hughes 80’s classics to more recent films such as the excellent Perks of Being a Wallflower. The difference here is that it follows a teen’s attempts to come out as gay. Nick Robinson plays Simon, a highly intelligent high school student who has been concealing
Read moreLion director Garth Davis’ new film Mary Magdalene is a low-key, very slow moving but occasionally stirring religious drama that presents a confluence of Christianity and feminism. As well as telling the familiar story of Jesus (or at least some of it), the film attempts to resurrect the image of Mary who since the middle ages has often been wrongly
Read moreThis week ‘Built For Speed’ takes a look at political drama ‘Chappaquiddick’ which stars Aussie Jason Clarke. We’ll also delve into John Krasinski’s new horror flick ‘A Quiet Place’. There’s many fine tunes to be had with more tracks from all-time favourite albums, touring artists, new Aussie stuff and indie classics. Don’t forget our regular preview of gigs and TV for
Read moreOne of the favourite novelties of Marvel Comics is the superhero team-up edition where most of the big-name heroes depart their usual narratives to unite against an enormous muscly super villain. That’s the premise of the latest Marvel movie, the epic Avengers: Infinity Wars, a grand finale of sorts but not the end of the Avengers movie juggernaut. Here, Thanos, a
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