Film

Engineer Gregory Box said all models are wrong, but some are useful. Meaning that if it is simple, it won’t be accurate, or if it is very complex then you won’t be able to understand it. The idea can be transformed for films, simple stories can be easily formulaic, but they can still be enjoyable.…

Scientists believe that some black holes were formed when the universe began. A black hole is believed to be made when a very large star falls in on itself, creating a supernova, and exploding part of the star into space. What is left is a super dense matter that has so much gravity that even…

There was a classic tale that has been passed on from generation to generation. It is a universally understood and revered story of the struggle between life and death, that reveals the nature of man and the meaning of life, it also happened that there were some motherf#$&ing snakes on a motherf#$&ing plane, now there…

In 1967,  Philippa Foot introduced a genre of decision problems that would later be called Trolley Problems. They are ethical dilemmas, the classic one is there is a runaway trolley on the tracks, you do nothing and it kills five people, or you can pull the lever and switch tracks but it will kill one…

There is that feeling when you are working on a puzzle. You see the spot you need to fill and you look at the scattered puzzle pieces looking for a home. Your brain figures out the shape and colour and you know that this piece will effortlessly fit in this hole.You get a dopamine release…

Opening Caveat – Making movies is hard. People put lots of time, love, energy and thought into them and despite that, they are very hard to make.  M3GAN (dir. New Zealand’s own Gerard Johnstone) is produced by James Wan who is involved with the Saw franchise and by Blumhouse productions which have been responsible for…

A burger from McDonald’s is never going to win a Michelin star but you always know what you are going to get. The consistency is legendary. You know what you are going to get and it delivers on that promise.  Now I wouldn’t call Tom Hanks the McDonlands of movies. He is a phenomenal actor,…

A powerful caveat to start – Steven Spielberg is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.With that out of the way. There is an expression that you should suffer for your art. I am not sure we should suffer experiencing said art. The Fablemans (dir Spielberg) is a quasi-autobiographical story of Spielberg’s youth where the young…

When watching The Woman King, two things kept popping into my mind. Black Panther and Liam Neeson. Let me explain.  The Woman King (dir Gina Prince-Bythewood) follows Nanisca (Viola Davis) the leader of the Agojie, an all-women fighting force for the Kingdom of Dahomey. Dahomey is in conflict with the Oyo empire. The film neatly…

Fear is a strange sensation. It has so much power because the unknown is a scary place, but once things are known, that fear just floats away and you feel silly for feeling it.  Nope is writer/director/producer Jordan Peele’s third feature film. His first film Get Out was amazing, while his second film Us didn’t…