Life, in Alex Garland’s Annihilation, his follow up to Ex Machina, is a ponderous, methodical, and unbalanced matter. Natalie Portman’s Lena, vacant and distant, states that the mystical “shimmer” isn’t destroying, but “creating something new”. The feverish world Garland has…
Interview: Quentin Tarantino brings ‘The Hateful Eight’ 70mm Roadshow Down Under
Like the movies he creates, Quentin Tarantino is larger than life. Any real cinephile needs no introduction to the auteur. I’ve had the pleasure twice now to talk with this genuine top bloke. You always shoot your movies on film.…
Movie Review: Anomalisa
Finding himself at odds with the world around him, despite all visages of a successful and happy life in place, Michael (David Thewlis) experiences a night of an internalized existential crisis. Stricken by life’s supposed mundanity, he finds a few hours of…
Movie Review: ‘The Hateful Eight’
Quentin Tarantino, the only contemporary director of a blaxploitation film, a samurai movie and a Nazi revenge fantasy, baptizes his audiences in blood, rebirthing them through vengeance. But what’s most fascinating about Tarantino’s latest three films – Inglorious Bastards, Django…
Jon’s Movie Review: “Welcome to Me” is More Than Inviting
I’ve unabashedly fantasized about what it would be like to win the lottery and what I would do with my money. After taking the obligatory Scrooge McDuckian swim in a pool of gold, I’ll probably go on a completely self-indulgent…