Mother’s Day

Posted 12:43pm Sunday 15th May 2016

Rating: D (can I give this an F? is that a thing?) What is it with holiday specific movies always being so terrible? I’m not meaning Christmas movies (although there a lot of disappointments there) I’m meaning films like Valentine’s Day, The Holiday, New Year’s Eve and now Read more...

Noma

Posted 1:09pm Sunday 8th May 2016

Rating: B Noma: My Perfect Storm follows the rise, fall, and rise again of world class restaurant in Denmark, named Noma. Rene Redzepi, the founder and I guess we can say protagonist of the documentary, is a passionate, driven, creative, innovative, ingenious, charismatic chef who is driven by Read more...

A Warrior’s Tail

Posted 12:24pm Sunday 1st May 2016

Rating: D A Warrior’s Tail is a low budget Russian animated film which I’m hoping was poorly translated because I have no idea what the narrative was actually trying to convey. Every character was obnoxious and annoying and lame and had their own bizarre storylines going on. So Read more...

Sherpa

Posted 12:41pm Sunday 24th April 2016

Rating: A If anyone you know doesn’t know what white privilege is, or is too ignorant to even try to understand, all they need to do is watch Sherpa and everything around the concept will become abundantly clear. If not, you need to disassociate yourself from them ASAP. Sherpa is a Read more...

Fallout 4

Posted 12:47pm Sunday 17th April 2016

Rating: A- Bethesda Studios game director and executive producer Todd Howard recently received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Game Developer’s Choice Awards for his incredible contribution to open world gameplay and the gaming industry as a whole. Bethesda is extremely well known for Read more...

Kung Fu Panda III

Posted 12:33pm Sunday 17th April 2016

Rating: B For whatever reason the original Kung Fu Panda was quite an obsession for me.  When it was released in 2008 one of my Mum’s friends had lent us some illegal copies of new release films to cure our boredom over weekends. When I saw Kung Fu Panda for the first time, Read more...

Undertale

Posted 12:13pm Sunday 10th April 2016

Rating: A+ Within gaming circles, there is an ongoing debate about what it is that makes games important and unique among other forms of media. With reference to gameplay, these arguments usually focus on the dissonance between a game’s ludic elements (the ‘game’ part of the Read more...

Mahana

Posted 1:45pm Sunday 20th March 2016

Rating: C+ Mahana is the New Zealand film adapted from Witi Ihimaera’s novel Bulibasha: King of the Gypsies. Successful New Zealand actor Temuera Morrison plays Tamihana aka. the World’s Grumpiest Grandpa, who is the patriarch controlling literally every aspect of the Mahana Read more...

Room

Posted 3:03pm Sunday 13th March 2016

Rating: A- Adapted from the novel written by Emma Donoghue, Room was in the running for four Oscar categories this year. Brie Larson gives an incredible performance as Joy, a young woman who is kidnapped when she is 17 years old, and taken prisoner by a disturbed predator only known to the Read more...

Deadpool

Posted 1:54pm Sunday 6th March 2016

Rating: A- Wade Wilson (aka Deadpool), is the newest addition to the slew of superheroes in the Marvel cinematic universe. Played exceptionally well by Ryan Reynolds, Deadpool is all about sex, hefty violence, and Wham!  This is not a Disney Marvel film (Avengers, Iron Man, Thor etc), it is Read more...