viddy well, little brother

There always had been this sense of guilt eating at myself in the last few months. While cinemas here in Sydney have recently opened their doors, to a less than spectacular line-up no less, the fear and threat of COVID-19 remained over our heads. Measures have been put in place to minimise the threat, with the checking-in policy and social distancing seating proving to be the attractive aspects…

Marriage Story Shattered Me and It Picked Up the Pieces

Already a new year, a new decade before us; I find myself shocked by how time has moved so fast. It was exactly this time last year, New Year’s Day, when my family was at its weakest. Turmoil and agony filled the air as that emotional bubble that has been expanding over the years between various members of this four-piece family has finally burst. What was spilt on the floor were the…

Peaches and Rocks – The Economic Divide of Parasite

It doesn’t take much to identify the tremendous force that Parasiteis leaving on audiences around the world. A force to be reckoned with and a primary contender in this coming awards race as it succeeds beyond than just the mere slice of fun and thrills that it markets itself to be. While not exactly breaking news, Bong Joon-Ho has always, in his films, harnessed in some shape or form the…

What It Means To Be Young: Looking Back Into Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused + Everybody Wants Some!!

If there was a quality that always proves to be apparent upon every viewing of Dazed and Confused and Everybody Wants Some!!it would be the observant nature that Richard Linklater brings towards his storytelling. In this anthropological view of youth is a nostalgic trip that manages to dissect into the details while also still finding itself soaked in its warm glow of nostalgia, rather than…

Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Third Phase: Where Things Start to Improve

10 years ago when Iron Man came into the scene, the concept of an origin story and a bankable superhero film is not foreign. Studios have managed to create successful ones, some have even developed into a franchise. However, it was in the post-credit sequence in the first Iron Man film that certainly planted the seed of success that Marvel Studios would manage to attain if it played it’s cards…

Suffocatingly Lavish: The Age of Innocence

Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence proves to be an outlier in the filmmaker’s filmography, by this I mean, that despite it’s intention as a period piece, it’s focus on the upward social classes is the key to such distinction. Since his debut, Scorsese has always favoured the eyes of the working middle class, often times conveying the hardships that are endured to attain that American dream,…

A Tedious Exercise: Mandy

Attempting to bring up Nicolas Cage’s acting in conversation, notably when under high praise, could often be paired with snickers and hard stares. His place in cinema has been moulded by internet humour that targets and ranges from the awkwardly and overly expressed performances to the questionable choices he has made as of late. That being said, there is a quality to his silver screen persona…