Articles Tagged E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

PODCAST: ABC 774 – April 11th

In this week’s Friday Film segment, I discuss the wholly awesome The LEGO Movie, and the latest addition to the Marvel franchise, Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Plus, talkback on ‘first film experiences’ on Drive with Rafael Epstein on 774 ABC Melbourne.

REVIEW: Boy

Taika Waititi’s Boy opens with an illuminating quote from E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) – “You could be happy here…we could grow up together”. Situating the film within the mid-1980s, the reference to Steven Spielberg’s seminal work also provides an insight into the emotional longing of Boy’s central character, an imaginative eleven year-old living in the […]