Memoir of a Snail is an Oscar-nominated animated film from Australia. It is Adam Elliot’s first feature film since the critically hit Mary and Max. Grace Pudel (Sarah Snook) recites her life story to her pet snail. It is a story of tragedy and despair as she tells of her experiences with loneliness, separation, and […]
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Maria Review
Maria is the third and final film in Pablo Larraín’s “Ladies with Heels” trilogy, a series of films about important 20th Century women. This film focuses on the opera singer Maria Callas during the last week of her life. It is 1977, and Maria Callas (Angelina Jolie) lives in Paris. It has been four and a […]
Elvis Review
This weekend saw the release of eccentric Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, a biopic epic about the troubled life of the king of rock n’ roll. Oh boy, this is a whole lot of movie. Luhrmann and company have stuffed an almost overwhelming amount of sequins and style into every frame of this film, and […]
X-Men: Dark Phoenix Review
The “Dark Phoenix” storyline is one of the most famous in comic book history – let alone within the X-Men series. X-Men: Dark Phoenix is a second attempt at adapting the storyline and closes 20th Century Fox’s movie series. The world for mutant kind has changed the events of X-Men: Apocalypse. The X-Men are hailed as heroes and Charles Xavier […]