Stories by media students at Ultimo TAFE
By Jasmine Vasarhelyi Wes Anderson. Simply the name should be enough to for people to know who the man is. For those who don’t, Wes Anderson is an American director and one of the most prominent filmmakers of our time, an individual with raw imagination and the genius to generate rare tapestries of film. In […]
By David Hickey Film is dead. Almost. Not the art form itself. The cinema experience is still going strong with box-office records constantly under threat and the race for this year’s best picture Oscar one of the most hotly-contested in recent memory. The issue at hand is the future of those long black reels. After […]
BY MARK SINDONI Christopher Nolan rebooted and re-imagined Batman in a modern world with his 2005 film, Batman Begins. This allowed audiences into the past of the caped crusader, and explained what drives him to stop criminals in Gotham City. The 2008 blockbuster The Dark Knight was the follow-up to the 2005 release. Mentally tested, Batman […]
BY KATE DAWSON When it was announced last August that Paramount Pictures was prepping a motion picture about Justin Bieber’s life, the general reaction was, shall we say, a scoff. The guy was only 16 years old at the time, had only produced two studio albums, and had really only been on people’s radar for […]
REVIEW BY KATE DAWSON Fairy tales have been adapted for the screen many, many times over the years, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. Red Riding Hood belongs in the latter category. When interpreted for the 21st century, fairy tales are an alluring form of cinematic escapism. They allow us to leave our real-life troubles behind and […]
BY KATE DAWSON The cover of this DVD contains two quotes, one from Empire magazine and one from The Sydney Morning Herald. Empire says: “Five stars. Ridiculously entertaining”, and the SMH says: “Monumentally cool”. To be honest, that about sums it up. However, that’s not to imply that there’s nothing more to say about this […]