The Anatomy Of A Sports Movie
Films can be scary without being horrors. Films can be horrors without being scary. Genre’s tend not to fit like gloves at the best of times and the only reason to learn their rules is so you’re able to break them.
13 Outstanding Movies That Are Entirely Inappropriate At This Particular Time
Welcome to the lockdown, dear friends. No need to panic, we’ll get through this, just gotta play by the rules for a while. Hey and think of it this way: you’ve finally got time to watch all those classic films that you never had time to before because of pesky old work.
Jojo Rabbit Has An Oscar-Winning Script And A Great Big Heart
Oscar Winner Taika Waititi. Get used to hearing that sentence all over the place whenever he does anything ever again. He might as well change his name to ‘Oscar Winner Taika Waititi’ and we can call him Oscar for short.
Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker Is Fine But Don’t Think Too Hard About It
It took a while to get a grasp on that one. The Rise of Skywalker wasn’t as terrible as some folks have immediately decided, though it’s a lot further from being a masterpiece... it’s just that it’s completely baffling and then kinda forgettable.
A Few Thoughts About ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’
In the end it turns out the clue was in the title all along. This was a fairytale. A story that was destined to have a happy ending, a tidy ending, even at the expense of our expectations.
Just a Cheeky Heads Up That ‘I Think You Should Leave’ Is The Funniest Show Of 2019
Are you aware of the demon child Bart Harley Jarvis? Have you stumbled upon the meme of that old fella dabbing in a boardroom? Has anyone tried to sell you fifty Stanzo branded fedoras lately?
The Ending of Game of Thrones and the Troubles of Adapting A Book That Hasn’t Been Written Yet
Realistically there was never gonna be an ending that satisfied everyone, the show was simply too big and too popular for that. And the same online bandwagon effect that rose this show to international phenomenon status kinda turned on it at the end there.
Alright, Game of Thrones, Where The Hell Were We? (A Recap)
Game of Thrones is almost back. Game of Thrones is almost done. Just six more episodes left and they’re all movie length features, with the first one premiering on 14 April in the USA. That means, as per usual, sometime in the early afternoon of Monday 13 April in the great nation of Aotearoa.
So You Wanna Write A Hollywood Musical Biopic…
Bohemian Rhapsody is not a particularly good film. It’s a fun and enjoyable film in its own way but as a work of artistic merit it is, gotta admit it, extremely flawed. I mean, poor old Deackie!
Anyone Watched Black Mirror’s Bandersnatch Thing Yet?
Of course Black Mirror would end up on Netflix, aye. Because who else could come up with anything as high concept as Bandersnatch other than Charlie Booker and the folks from Black Mirror and who the absolute hell else would possibly endorse broadcasting such a thing as Netflix?
The Wildcard’s Holiday Telly Suggestions
Look, I get it. The holidays are coming up. Lots of time off work/study and heaps of time spent hanging out with the people you love. That’s great… it’s also overwhelming. You need some time to yourself, chilling and unwinding, absorbing something other than real life for an hour or so.
We Are Living Through The Horror Film Renaissance
These surely are some strange times. Not unique times by any means, nor are these the end-times that some would have you believe. Just strange times, is all.
There’s A Lot To Like About Disenchantment, Matt Groening’s New Effort
Matt Groening is back, did you realise? Old mate from The Simpsons and Futurama has a new show on Netflix called Disenchantment and it’s pretty decent. Some of the early reviews weren’t fantastic but that’s what you get when you try judge an entire show on the basis of a handful of episodes.
Hey Look Everybody, Sacha Baron Cohen’s Back!
Back in the day Da Ali G show was chilling at the peak of comedy. Like the best of humour it was about more than the jokes, it was about exposing idiocy and privilege and hypocrisy and bigotry.
The Quest For The Next Game Of Thrones
Thrones Ocho will be just six episodes long. Chances are they’ll be touching upon movie lengths in runtime – Thrones can do whatever it wants at this stage – but once those precious offerings are done… then winter will have come and gone for good.
Twin Peaks – The Return: Part 3 & Part 4
Say ladies… have you met Dougie Jones? Doesn’t seem to talk too much these days, nor does he have a whole lot of independent thoughts all of a sudden, but he’s lost a little weight
Game of Thrones: Season Seven Is Coming… (And We Have A Trailer)
Yo, forget about winter… war is coming. Big old sloppy war, mass casualties on all sides, plenty of short-sighted and aggressive politics… general chaos in other words.
Twin Peaks – The Return: Part 1 & Part 2
Oh what’s that, you were expecting a happy cutesy nostalgic Twin Peaks revival? You thought David Lynch was coming back to serve doughnuts and coffee and say hello to old friends?
Rewatching Twin Peaks Ahead of the Reboot, Part III
Twin Peaks itself is a show about a murder in Small Town USA, population 51201. There are standoffs with guns, there are significant drug syndicates, there are passionate love affairs, there are nefarious deals being done.
Rewatching Twin Peaks Ahead of the Reboot, Part II
The Red Room is the defining image of Twin Peaks. It’s a dazzling scene full of such weirdness that you cannot watch it without leaning in, agasp at the audacity that someone would commit such a thing to television.