Best of the Year

I didn’t think I had been this behind on my movie-watching or my blogging.  I sat down this evening to write a list of my ten favourite films of the year.  You’d think it would seem like light work after recently compiling a list of one hundred games!  Yet I came up with about four films.  Then I sat there ...

Top Ten Films of 2012 2012 has been a pretty good year for film lovers with a great mix of quality blockbuster films (Bond, Batman etc) and decent festival films (most of this list).  2012 also saw the return to form for action films (The Raid, Haywire, The Avengers) and a welcome return to prominence for science fiction films (Looper, ...

One of the frustrating things about Australian release dates for films is that they are usually day and date in alignment with American blockbuster films released in the middle of the year but when it comes to the independant films and Oscar season films, they are usually several months behind in their distribution.  And given that most of those films ...

The year's best collection of dragons, magicians, Jihadists, marines, super heroes and computer programmers.

Its only when looking back and trying to narrow down a shortlist to ten films did I realise that 2009 has been a pretty awesome year at the cinema.  There have been plenty of films that I enjoyed and many more supposedly great ones that I have yet to get around to watching. So I’ll kick things off with an ...