Tonight we’re watching what seems to me to be the perfect movie for emerging from COVID lockdown in South Australia.
Tonight we’re watching what seems to me to be the perfect movie for emerging from COVID lockdown in South Australia.
Taika Waititi is a wonderful film maker who has a great eye for framing a scene and a deft touch that takes what may be the most tritely sentimental scenarios and without manipulation but through storytelling skill renders them in a way that is warmly affecting. Great visuals and great stories. A recurring theme seems …
Sweet Charity is a crossover between classic and contemporary musicals. After a bit of a wait for a region B blu-ray release, and then a bit of a wait while UK company Indicator sorted through some rights issues, my copy arrived today. While the advertising posits it as ‘The Musical Excitement Of The Seventies’ it …
The movie Rams seems almost self-consciously current, while dealing with some very timeless themes. A remake of an Icelandic film of the same name, it deals with bush-fires and infectious disease control. How 2020 is that? It also deals with themes that resonate in rural Australia. A decades long rift between two brothers hangs as …
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