It's hard to choose favourites between beloved children... or when you're faced with a whole score of mediocre kids, and half of them haven't even turned up for assembly. But never fear - I have persevered for you, the people. Here are my top ten movies of 2012 ( Read more... )

With a title as loaded as “A Fantastic Fear of Everything”, you might go into the movie suspecting it was a bit of an overstatement.

Well, yes and no.

It stars Simon Pegg as a children's author who is trying to make the move into serious crime writing for a television series. After all of his study into grisly Victorian murders, he finds himself with ( Read more... )

My first introduction to Aubrey Plaza was Funny People. I found her to be inexplicably annoying and bland. I almost developed an instant vendetta against her... to be fair, it may have been because I found the entire movie she was in cloying and dull.

My second encounter with this doe-eyed creature was in Scott Pilgram vs. The World. And while I ( Read more... )

Well, here we are again - another day, another cinematic adaptation of a literary classic. Yawn.

This time it is of Emily Brontë's melodramatic romance novel, Wuthering Heights. Before you get too excited - it is almost the exact opposite of Kate Bush dancing in a field.

Wuthering Heights is about the grand, destructive love between the orphan ( Read more... )

I don't even know where to start.

Bait 3D. It's a movie about a Australian coastal town that gets hit by a freak tsunami... which floods an underground supermarket and traps a cast of characters in with a couple of huge, perpetually-hungry Great White Sharks. And hilarity ensues.

Personally, I don't do well with bad movies - or more specifically, ( Read more... )

With the basic concept of "a writer literally manifests his dream woman", I was really curious to see how this movie played out. Would I be horribly offended by the idea of a man being able to change his girlfriend to suit his needs? Or would it be the usual rom-com tripe where the girl has to get drunk in order to have a character arc, but fed ( Read more... )

Having grown up on The X-Files and the Animorphs book series... I can't say that secret alien invasion stories are all that new to me. But that fun fact might also clue you in to the knowledge that I love a good alien popcorn flick. So, one co-starring Richard Ayoade? I'm in.

To sweeten the deal, they loaded it with comedy heavyweights well within ( Read more... )

Every four years, America goes a little crazy.

I'm not referring to the Olympics which hits our globe quadrennially, turning even the meekest of bloggers into sports-mad patriots (I promise that is not an allusion to myself... I sort of missed all of it this year). Nope, I am talking about the U.S. presidential election.

I had the (un)fortunate luck ( Read more... )

Just preemptively: I am wholly unprepared to write a review on this film - I haven't seen any of the other Bourne movies, so I have nothing to weigh The Bourne Legacy against other than its own merits as a film.

And on that note - why even have the movie be a part of the Bourne franchise? If doesn't actually have much to do with the other films and ( Read more... )

As someone equipped with an innate underdog crusader mode, I tend to get a bit unfairly passionate about the state of the Australian film industry.

However, that was just a teaser - I'm saving that rant for another time, because our latest industry big ticket is the Melbourne International Film Festival opener, The Sapphires; a wholly harmless, ( Read more... )