Ad Astra Offers an Aching Examination of Masculinity’s Failures
Ad Astra is an astonishing achievement.
Unpacking 2014’s Blockbusters
If you want to talk about the experience of the average moviegoer in 2014, you need to talk about blockbusters. Boyhood might be the recipient of cascades of praise from critics and award bodies alike at the moment, and stands a solid chance of picking up the Best Picture at the Academy Awards. And yet,…
Interstellar (2014)
Where T.S. Eliot found fear in a handful of dust, Christopher Nolan finds it in huge clouds of the stuff. Dust storms are consuming America’s failing agrarian communities decades from now. Blight ravages the planet’s few remaining crops as that dust brings illness and despair. This is a pre-apocalyptic world, a wasteland upon which mankind…
The 500 Cast Episode 2: Certain Tendencies of Australian Cinema Edition
The second episode of the 500Cast podcast has yours truly joining Brisbane critics Jesse Thompson and Laurence Barber to discuss Whiplash, Australian Cinema .. not to mention a quick quiz where we endeavour to differentiate quotes as relating to 2001: A Space Odyssey or Christopher Nolan’s latest, Interstellar. Check it out! Listen to the podcast…
