Movie: H is for Hawk Watched on a day off; slow meditation on grief; well acted, looked amazing on a big screen, but hard to see how it would find a multiplex audience, nor how people in greater Sydney would generally be able to find such a thing.
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Movie: flow (2024)
Winner of the Academy Award for animation (2025) but made in Latvia using free animation software “Blender”. Really enjoyed the experience of watching it with my son; he could explain just how clever this wordless animation was. Learn more and watch the trailer on IMDB
Movie: Treasure (2024)
For some reason I keep being drawn to movies that are seeking to tell stories of loss from WWII. This humour-flecked story of a divorced 30-something journalist (Lena Dunham) and her Polish holocaust survivor father (Stephen Fry) who has invited himself along to her tour of key sites from their family history. Fry does an …
13 unnamed movies
In response to a recent FB challenge, here are some movies with no titles, that have been significant to me in some way.
movie: Moana
movie: Moana Since watching this at the movies with my daughter, we’ve bought the BluRay and watched it as a family umpteen times. Largely a story of girl power, a re-imagined Disney princess, a comedy-hero performance from Dwayne Johnson and a great session from Jemaine Clement. There are some concepts around reincarnation and polytheism, which my …
movie: the lego batman movie
Movie: The LEGO Batman Movie If you haven’t caught this in the cinema with your kids, you’re missing out on an experience of Batman nostalgia (and old Superhero cartoon nostalgia) for parents, and for the kids, abundant frenetic activity onscreen and questions posed about what it means to be a family.
Movie: Silence
I wanted to see Silence on the big screen. I also didn’t want to. The Scorsese films I’ve seen have been more in the category of ultra-violent, and filled with characters who little valued human life. I was glad to have spent the time watching this one. Decades in the making, it tells a story …
movie: The Founder
Movie: The Founder Decided to see this knowing precious little about the movie except (broadly) the subject matter, and that it was a Michael Keaton film. It’s a biopic of a man with a lot of drive, and a lot of flaws, and has some scenes (notably the marriage sub-plot) that will stay with me …
Movie: Doctor Strange
Movie: Doctor Strange Another visit to the Marvel universe. Visually spectacular, owing much to “inception”. Has a car crash which was a genuine jump moment (even though I knew from a review that it was going to happen). Running time is a bit long, but it creates its own world effectively and has enough laughs …
Movie: Hell or High Water.
Hell or High Water – watch it for a Jeff Bridges performance, or a character study, or an indictment against the treatment of the working poor in Texas – it’s a dark, violent-in-places story of an anti-hero and a law-man.