Occasion: Friday night fun night Anticipation: Medium Overall Rating: In its desperation to stop global warming, humankind has triggered an ice age, wiping out virtually all life on earth. A few survivors have sought shelter onboard the Snowpiercer, a train powered by a perpetual motion engine, on an infinite loop around the world. The Snowpiercer is a […]
The following is an essay written by Virginia Streit as part of course work for her Master of Communication degree. The brief was to use a work of fiction to explore our uneasy relationship with technology. With its strong environmental message and anti-consumerism theme, Pixar’s 2008 robot romance WALL-E appears at first to be a […]
Occasion: Ladies’ Night Out Anticipation: Medium (I come and go with Wes Anderson movies) Overall Rating: Perched gloriously atop mountain peaks in the fictional Republic of Zubrowka, The Grand Budapest Hotel is the primary setting of a fanciful tale of a young boy, Zero (Revolori) and his mentor and friend, Gustave (Fiennes). Framed for a murder he […]
Occasion: Friday Film with Friends (as part of the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival) Anticipation: Medium Overall Rating: Set in hyper-styled 1950s Normandy, France, Populaire‘s heroine Rose (François) has two choices in life: get married or become a secretary. The film is a simplistic and perhaps naive treatment of a woman’s lot in […]
Occasion: Friday Film with Friends Anticipation: Medium Overall Rating: It is 1985 and the AIDS epidemic is sweeping through America. The disease is primarily associated with homosexuals and junkies, so when Ron Woodroof (McConaughey) is told he has contracted HIV and has 30 days to live, he initially refuses to accept the diagnosis. However […]
Occasion: Date night (2D) Anticipation: High Overall Rating: Mission Specialist Dr Ryan Stone (Bullock) finds herself spiraling into space after her crew are hit by a rouge cloud of space debris. Things go from bad to worse as Stone and fellow survivor Matt Kowalski (Clooney) struggle to get back to Earth before the debris completes […]
Occasion: A night at the Astor Theatre Anticipation: Medium Overall Rating: Film technique, technology and trends might have changed – but the excitement which Wings aroused in its audiences in 1927 remains until this day. Wings is a story about friendship, love and flying in World War I. Billed at the time as a Clara Bow film, the narrative […]
