Disney/ Pixar’s Elemental is a quirky, visually inventive, animated romance that serves more as a parable of multiculturalism, race relations and acceptance than as a traditional adventure comedy. The film takes the ancient philosophical notion of the world being composed of four essential elements: earth, air, fire and water and turns them into four populations of people who the inhabit
Read moreYou Hurt My Feelings from director Nicole Holofcener (Friends With Money) is a very amiable, low-key, Woody Allen-esque comedy/drama that looks at the white lies couples use to maintain domestic harmony and to keep insecurities at bay and what can happen when these lies are exposed. The film is, to a large extent, built around the wonderful perky charm of
Read moreI haven’t seen the first film in this series, 2018’s Into the Spiderverse but I was intrigued by the rapturous critical reception this animated Spiderman spin-off received. Despite movie goers being pounded like a Hulk fist by CGI superhero extravaganzas, Spiderverse apparently offered something fresh and exciting. For someone encountering this film world for the first time, the sequel, Spiderman:
Read moreI went into the film The Boogeyman having read nothing about it and hoping it was a biopic of a 70’s pop funkster like say, Harry Wayne Casey from KC and the Sunshine Band. Anyone else thinking likewise, be warned, this is no upbeat music flick but instead The Boogeyman is a grim supernatural horror film. This reasonably effective spook-fest
Read moreMovies like The full Monty and Brassed Off have given us a sub-genre: the ‘quirky, warm-hearted, British working-class folks versus corporate meanie’ film. These movies are a little predictable but usually fun and endearing enough that we can comfortably overlook their clichés and simplistic view of working people. That’s mostly the case with the latest addition to the fold, Bank
Read moreThe eerie, dystopian parable, The Survival Of Kindness is the latest film for one of Australia’s most intriguing filmmakers, Rolf de Heer. Like an Avant Garde play expanded to the big screen, this film relies more on visual metaphor than plot which will prove perplexing and possibly irritating for some viewers. Those looking to surrender their normal cinema-going needs for
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