Opening Night, First Nations Film Festival
Movie review
movies, film, cinema, video
At its most basic, this eight episode Netflix series sets out to explain why and how people stopped believing in the power of the gods of ancient Greek mythology. That’s the premise, but how it’s delivered is anything but ancient. This is bonkers, out-there TV, re-interpreting and re-visualising myths and legends that, for a while,
I read and loved the books before these movies were made, and they stand up for me as rare examples where the filmic versions add another dimension.
The End of the F***ing World (Netflix) consists of two series of eight episodes each. The first series introduces us to James, a 17 year old English boy who is a misfit and thinks he might be a psychopath. He has killed many animals and feels he should graduate to killing a person. When he
If you’re looking for something a bit different to watch, I can recommend Tetris, a 1 hr 57 min movie streaming on Apple TV. The main character is Henk Rogers, who in the 80s recognised the potential of the video game Tetris and set about trying to get a piece of the rights to distribute
Following another review in The Saturday Paper, I looked up online a play that is part of the UK’s National Theatre At Home subscription streaming service. The play I was interested in is All Of Us, which tells the story of Jess, a woman who is a therapist, has a doctorate in psychology and has