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Movie: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Neither there nor back again. This movie could easily be compressed into just a few scenes, and adds little to the overall telling of the story of the Hobbit. But who cares? It’s worth the price of admission to be transported back to Middle Earth for another two …
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Movie: Hunger Games: Catching Fire (Hunger Games 2: Hungrier Games I’d appreciated the first movie on Blue Ray (though as it turns out I haven’t blogged about it), and thought the second was worth experiencing on the big screen. The reviews had been positive, and my hopes were high. Overall, they were met. It’s a movie …
I’d won a couple of free tickets to Now You See Me, and was hoping to catch it early in its Australian distribution, but it wasn’t until this week that a friend and I made it to Hurstville Event Cinema to cash in the tickets. I’d heard quite a few reviews of the film by …
I saw The World’s End with a friend on Friday night. Both the same age, somewhere around 20 years out from high school, this was a good film to see. Are your school days the happiest days of your life? Almost certainly not, for a range of reasons. But the enduring friendships that are formed …
When I read the synopsis of The Act of Killing, I wasn’t completely convinced. The title makes it sound like an action film, but it’s not that at all. In 1965-1966 in Indonesia, as part of a military coup, over 1 million people were killed, not just by the military, but by paramilitary and “gangsters”. …
Big, messy and complicated, this rambling movie of an unclimbable book sees its actors combine six stories, each in its own timeline, to tell a story of what it means to be human, with a thread of anti-slavery messaging included in the mix.
Movie: The Avengers If you’ve seen any of the prequel movies (setting up the backstories of the various characters) – Iron Man, Iron Man 2, The Hulk, Thor, Captain America, then you’ve probably heard the long-running plan to create an “Avengers” movie – an ensemble piece with a large number of Marvel superheroes. I was …
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows A month ago, when there was still time to watch movies, I saw this Guy Ritchie film: unlike Ritchie’s original Sherlock film, this one is overrun with gun battles – this takes away from the simplicity of the old stories and moves it into a different genre. It has …
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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) Over a month since I saw this one at the movies: it’s a different kind of reflection with this much time elapsed. No longer is it the initial impression, but what were the lasting moments that stay with a viewer after a month? Tom Cruise is in fine form …
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Movie: The Iron Lady Margaret Thatcher was for me the British Prime Minister when I was still a child: I saw more of her in parody than in real footage, and so this biopic of her was a different experience for me than for the people in the cinema who were old enough to remember …