28 May 2025

Tomorrowland

My submission to this month’s IndieWeb Movie Club

The poster for Brad Bird's 2015 film *Tomorrowland*
Tomorrowland is ten years old, and we are all now living in the times foretold by President Nix, lost in tragedy and despair.

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26 April 2025

The Castle

My entry for this month’s IndieWeb Movie Carnival

The poster for Rob Sitch's film *The Castle*
The second comedy in a row for the IndieWeb Movie Club, The Castle, is an Australian film from 1997; it tells the story of the Kerrigan family, happily living in a house located at the end of the Melbourne Airport runway, until a ‘compulsory acquisition’ notice from the local authorities prompts the father, Darryl, to look for a way to oppose the injunction and avoid losing ‘his castle’.

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16 March 2025

What's Up, Doc?

My submission for this month’s IndieWeb Movie Club

The poster for Peter Bogdanovich's 1972 film *What's Up, Doc?*
When I was little, at home we had a small projector for Super-8 films. We didn’t have many reels to watch; aside from my parents’ wedding ‘video’, we owned a Looney Tunes Road Runner cartoon and a Pink Panther one. I had not thought about these cartoons at all in the last forty years, until I watched What’s Up, Doc?.

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26 February 2025

Romeo and Juliet

The IndieWeb Movie Club is back. This time, it’s multiversal.

The poster for Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film version of *Romeo and Juliet*
After taking a break for a month to digest all of those ‘Best of 2024’ lists, the IndieWeb Movie Club is back, with a variant. [Mark] kindly hosts once again, and he proposes a multiversal version of the club in which each participant must choose their favourite version of a story that’s been adapted repeatedly. I suppose that Romeo and Juliet has been selected because February is Saint Valentine’s month; what better period to immerse ourselves in the most tragic of love stories?

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21 December 2024

It's a Wonderful Life

My entry to December’s IndieWeb Movie Club

The poster for Frank Capra's *It's a Wonderful Life*
The IndieWeb Movie Club seems designed for me to fill long-standing gaps in movie culture. After November’s foray into Slovenian cinema, we are back to a super-classic from the United States that, like October’s The Wizard of Oz, I had not yet watched.
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18 November 2024

Vsi Proti Vsem - All Against All

My entry for November’s IndieWeb Movie Club

The poster for Andrej Košak's film *Vsi Proti Vsem* (*All Against All*)
I appreciate Sara’s purposeful choice of a Slovenian film for this round of the IndieWeb Movie Club. I think that’s part of the endeavour’s spirit; alternate internationally well-known crowdpleasers with smaller, nationally relevant stories.
I also appreciate Sara put into choosing a film that is reasonably available to watch outside from outside her country.
If I look at the statistics for films I’ve seen, there was absolutely no movie from Slovenia, so this was a great opportunity to take a peek into a country that’s the only Italian neighbour I haven’t visited yet.

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