Trailer Debut: Take Shelter

The official trailer for Jeff Nichols’ Sundance hit Take Shelter has arrived online. The film stars Michael Shannon as Curtis LaForche, a man who envisions an apocalyptic storm approaching. With a deaf daughter and a loving wife, money is tight, and as the story unfolds Curtis is forced to question whether it is his family […]

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Death of the party – Get Low review

Get Low – Starring Robert Duvall, Bill Murray and Sissy Spacek. Directed by Aaron Schneider. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. T.S. Eliot said the world would end “not with a bang but with a whimper”. That certainly seemed true this past weekend, when evangelist Harold Camping’s prediction of a fire-and-brimstone rapture engulfing the entire universe […]

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Trailer Debut: Melancholia

Now that Roland Emmerich is busy making period dramas (admittedly, expensive looking ones), a void has been left in the cinematic landscape. Who can we rely on to annually film the destruction of our planet? With the trailer for his new film Melancholia, Danish provocateur Lars von Trier modestly asks we consider him for the […]

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Kids with guns – Tomorrow, When The War Began review

Tomorrow, When The War Began – Starring Caitlin Stasey, Deniz Akdeniz and Rachel Hurd-Wood. Directed by Stuart Beattie. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Stuart Beattie’s Tomorrow, When The War Began is one of the best action blockbusters to ever emerge from Australia (even if it fails somewhat as a teen drama). Based on John Marsden’s […]

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Best Post-Apocalyptic Flicks

No one was more pleased than I when the world didn’t end yesterday, despite the scientific community’s attempt to recreate the Big Bang with a $9 billion particle accelerator. We’ve all seen films in which scientists have unearthed some great discovery, or have developed an all-curing medicine. They applaud one another and announce how the […]

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