The business of architecture
What is it? A session of internationally-sourced digitally animated short films that screened earlier this evening as part of the 2011 Melbourne International Animation Festival. The festival runs until this coming Sunday at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. What did we think? Despite suffering from the mixed quality that often ails short film groupings,... Continue Reading →
Recent years have seen the release of innumerable films within the superhero genre. They are perhaps a sign of our times, with the teenagers of the 1970s, 80s and 90s now old enough to flock in their droves to the movies made about the caped crusaders from their childhoods. Dare we even suggest that it... Continue Reading →
What is it? Recently released film by director, Neil Burger, based on Alan Glynn's novel, The Dark Fields. Bradley Cooper plays the lead character, Eddie Morra, a lank-haired loser with perpetual writer's block and zero positive outlook in his life. Returning to his grotto of an apartment after being dumped by his girlfriend (a small... Continue Reading →
What is it? New film by Zack Snyder, expressionist director of 300 and Watchmen. The cast is headed by australian actresses Emily Browning and Abbie Cornish. The plot is simple, at times even 1-dimensional, however this is not necessarily a bad thing. As Tarantino's excellent Kill Bill is driven by little more than a desire for... Continue Reading →
What is it? The Victorian State Government has recently confirmed it will make good on its pre-election promise of introducing 940 security guards to metropolitan railway stations around Melbourne over the next three years. The guards will be trained in a similar (through controversially less intensive) way to police, given the power to search and... Continue Reading →
What is it? Seen in Craig Platt's column on The Age website recently, someone has noticed a disturbing detail in the final scene of Back to the Future III and posted it up on YouTube. Check it out here. What do we think? There are two good reasons why we should not be drawing your attention... Continue Reading →
What is it? Danny Boyle's new film about American climber, Aron Ralston, who in 2003 was trapped in a Colorado slot canyon, his right arm pinned between the canyon wall and a boulder he inadvertently dislodged during his passage. The film tracks the small, seemingly inconsequential decisions that brought him to that fateful place and... Continue Reading →
What is it? Pixar is a CGI animated film studio started in 1979 as the Graphics Group, creator of films like Finding Nemo, the Toy Story trilogy and, our personal favourite, The Incredibles. What do we think? Having recently watched the third installment of Toy Story, we remain amazed at and impressed by the consistently exceptional quality of... Continue Reading →