by Editor | Sep 19, 2017 | TV
Cassini, the little spacecraft that could, had all the attributes of Wall-E, Pixar’s plucky waste compacting robot. Busy, isolated, reliable, undeterred. It was this anthropomorphic cross-over, I presume, that teased the tear to my eye when the faithful workhorse...
by Editor | Jan 30, 2016 | Film
The ensemble cast of Spotlight are happy to take a back seat and let the true story of the Catholic Church’s cover-up of child abuse do the work Halfway through Spotlight you notice other things. There are the ensemble performances. Michael Keaton confirming his...
by Editor | Jan 23, 2016 | Film
Ron Burgundy director Adam McKay has taken Michael Lewis’s devastating critique of the 2008 banking crisis and turned it into an entertaining ‘traumedy’ Hey, what if legendary news anchor Ron Burgundy – yeah, that guy – was asked to put together a...
by Editor | Jan 13, 2016 | Film
Leonardo DiCaprio has brutal encounters with a bear, a mendacious Tom Hardy and an uncaring Mother Nature in The Revenant, Alejandro Inarritu’s gruelling but stirring tale Will Glass break? That is the question throughout director Alejandro Inarritu’s gruelling epic...
by Editor | Sep 20, 2015 | Film
This based-on-a-true-story disaster movie may lose character in the blizzards but the camerawork is breathless and stunning The highlights of director Baltasar Kormakur’s estimable film are the stunning 3D visuals that capture the hypnotic lure of the headline...
