Friday, September 20, 2013

Australian Films To Look Out For In 2014

2014 was recently described by Inside Film as shaping up to be "one of the strongest years for Australian films." In anticipation of this, and considering my lack of posts recently, I thought to provide you all with a few more reasons as to why this claim can be made with summaries of the film's mentioned and their accompanying...

Friday, April 19, 2013

Olympus Has Fallen

Action films are typically THE easiest film genre to predict. Hot guy with dark history + deep conflict that risks the existence of the world + lots of fighting and guns = solid gold. When you throw in the White House and the United States president though, you're playing in a whole new ballpark. OLYMPUS...

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Trance

Not since Inception has a single film managed to confuse the crap out of me until the very last frame. Now, Trance can claim that throne by throwing up one of the one most complicated storylines I have experienced in the cinema of late (except for Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 - that's still a mystery to me). Trance tells the...

Monday, March 11, 2013

Social Media Predictions 2013

I stumbled across one of Slideshare's most downloaded presentations the other day which just so happened to be an awesome collective of the world's most respected marketers and their opinions on where social is expected to head for 2013. With the document ranging across 18 different slides and covering 3 separate topics, I decided to consolidate some of the schools of thought being considered...

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Oscar Nominations 2013

In the lead up to the nomination announcements for the 85th Academy Awards, I thought I would predict which films would be most likely to be nominated for this year's round.  A few of these I haven't seen so far but I'm sure will be a part of the massive 10-strong Best Picture category so forgive my ignorance on details...