I didn’t discover my appetite for fiction until, when I turned 7, my family and I moved to New Zealand from the Philippines. I grew up with books but they… Read More
Matilda / Jesue Valle
Category: Coming of Age series
Atonement / Greta Nash
My mum got into the habit of dragging me along to the movies as soon as I was old enough to appreciate all the films my Dad probably had no… Read More
10 Things I Hate About You / Alice Foulcher
If there is one single film that both shaped and defined my youth, it has to be 10 Things I Hate About You. There’s so many more than 10 reasons… Read More
The Year My Voice Broke / Vanessa Berry
As a teenager in the 1990s I had about a dozen VHS video cassettes of movies and TV shows I’d taped off the television. I put them together carefully, pausing to… Read More
Mulholland Drive / Vanessa Gazy
I was eighteen I suppose, because I remember where I was and it was where I was when I was eighteen: my small white bedroom at the Sydney Uni Village,… Read More
Almost Famous / Ryan Cassata
I first saw Almost Famous in my Senior English class which was focused around film. I was the only 9th grader among about thirty 12th graders. I was extremely ambitious… Read More
DIVA / Mathieu Ravier
“Where are we? – In a castle. What castle? – Where the witch makes poisoned red apples to advertise the toothpaste movie stars use.” (St Maurice de Remens, France, 1985)… Read More