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Spoiler Alert Movie Review

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 16:17:30 +0000

It’s not easy making a film about a cancer patient that is much more than just a dour exercise in how unfair the disease can be. Spoiler Alert uses a fair number of cinematic tricks and fully developed characters to deliver an effective and affecting work.

The film is based on the memoir, Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies by Television Journalist Michael Ausiello. It chronicles his 13-year relationship with photographer Kit Cowan. It follows their meeting, falling in love and Kit’s eventual death in 2015 from a rare form of cancer.

Their partnership is presented as far from perfect and realistically portrays two souls that come together but struggle to fully unite. The serious subject matter is softened by the injection of scenes from an imaginary sitcom of the early life of Ausiello. There are also some liberties taken with timelines and cutaways.

By the film’s end, the times that Kit and Michael spent apart while they struggled to hold their relationship together seem particularly wasteful. Heart-wrenchingly sad yet still life-reaffirming, Spoiler Alert leaves you with the idea to get the most out of every day you have on this earth with those you love.
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Watch the trailer for Spoiler Alert – in Australian cinemas February 9, 2023!

admin — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:15:20 +0000

Based on Michael Ausiello’s best-selling memoir “Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies,” the film is a heartwarming, funny and life-affirming story of how Michael and Kit’s relationship is transformed and deepened when one of them falls ill.

Starring Jim Parsons, Ben Aldridge, Bill Irwin, Jeffery Self and Sally Field, Spoiler Alert will be release in Aussie Cinemas February 9, 2023!
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Hidden Figures Movie Review

admin — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 06:09:44 +0000

America needs inspiration now more than ever, so it’s easy to see why a film like Hidden Figures would be popular at the box office. It’s one of those true feel good films and it does an admirable job of building to its happy conclusion after subjecting the audience to the frustrations and absurdity of racism as it existed in sixties America.

The story revolves around the space race of the mid-sixties and the contribution of three extraordinary female African Americans. Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe are outstanding as the three leads and their intelligence and humour illuminates every scene they are in. Their quiet (and sometimes not so quiet) dignity show a resolve few posses.

The Space Race as it was called back then really was a race as the threat of communism and the fact the Russians had the early lead led to America green lighting an unheard of amount of money to something so esoteric. Many scientific advancements, ones with real commercial value came of the period, but back then it was more an ideal of pure politics. Regardless of the true government intension, the blend of science and human endeavour really did lift the masses.

Many people question the on going exploration of space and see the missions that led up to men landing on the moon as some quaint historical artefact but if there has been a time where mental motivation is needed, it is now. This period in history highlights how a government reaching for the stars can lift the aspirations of its people. Hard to see anything this inspirational coming out of Trump America in the next four years.

Rob Hudson
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