FAFA: Summer Coda (2010)
That it took over five years to make an Australian film is no great surprise. From a genesis beginning on the Movie Channel’s Project…
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The Inaugural Blergies go to…
Last year, Film Blerg ran a Top 10 of 2010. It was fun but perhaps not the freshest idea. This year, a few “Favourite”…
Film Review: The First Grader (2010)
Decades after surviving the senseless tragedies of the Kenyan liberation from the British in the 1950s, Kimani Maruge (Oliver Litondo) learns about the opportunities…
Film Review: The Skin I Live In (2011)
Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) is a revered plastic surgeon who keeps a woman in a locked room on constant surveillance inside his house. Vera…
Film Review: Albert Nobbs (2011)
To say choices for women were limited over a hundred years ago does not even begin to grasp the situation. By this standard, the…
Film Review: The Iron Lady (2011)
Britain’s longest serving Prime Minister of the twentieth century is the subject of Phyllida Lloyd’s latest feature since the popular box office hit Mamma…
12 Days of Christmas Films
Dec 24 – National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation Dec 23 – Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas Dec 22 – Home Alone Dec 21 – White…
12 Days of Christmas Films: Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Master of populist modern gothic screen presence through films such as Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow and Corpse Bride, Tim Burton’s stock motion classic
12 Days of Christmas Films: White Christmas (1954)
With a title like White Christmas, one may expect to be in for a very seasonal yuletide film.
12 Days of Christmas Films: Dr Seuss’ The Grinch (2000)
While Dickens’ Scrooge was particularly brooding and harsh character who ultimately seeks redemption, Dr. Seuss’s Grinch is a diabolical, soulless, and cruel being.