Everything appears to be an illusion in Louis Leterrier’s (The Transporter, Clash of the Titans) Now You See Me with magic, or the suggestion of magic, suffusing the whole film. That the art of magic and illusion is the centrepiece of this fast-paced highly enjoyable crime caper is made very clear Continue Reading
Mysteriouser and mysteriouser … J. J. Abrams intriguing new short film about ??
It’s Cloverfield all over again! Or Super 8! Or Believe … Frankly it could be for anything and that is the delight and mystery of the intriguing new trailer that has dropped from J. J. Abrams, the past and present master of the clever trail-of-breadcrumbs teaser campaign. While some Continue Reading
A terrific togetherness of TV trailers: Elementary, Once Upon a Time, Supernatural, Dracula, Big School
We’re barely a month away from all sorts of new season TV goodness and with thoughts of evil fairy tale queens, re-imagined 19th century fictional detectives and bright, sunshiney high school singers dancing in my heads, it’s entirely the right time to gather them all together in one big Continue Reading
Movie review: “Francis Ha”
Life, complicated though it is, is one of those things that every adult on the planet is supposed to have totally figured out. Because we’re, you know, adults, and that’s what we’re expected to do. The truth is, all appearances aside, many of us don’t and it’s this subversively Continue Reading
Every zombie child’s favourite bedtime story: “A Brain is for Eating”
Ever wondered what tired zombie parents, spent from a long day wandering through empty apocalyptic landscapes scaring and eating the living, read to their undead offspring come bedtime? (Dead or not, I am betting there’s a good chance that like children everywhere they would be a lively as hell, Continue Reading
The Gravity of life in space: new photos released from the movie
We human beings are a funny lot. We crave the certainty of routine – our regular train, our favourite restaurant with the chilli chicken dish we love so much, a morning greeting from the hunky barista – relishing the sense that everything will be just as we left it Continue Reading
Book review: The Long War by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
The Long War, the collaborative successor to Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter’s best-selling The Long Earth is a curiously unsatisfying book. As ambitious as you could want in scope – it details humanity’s simultaneously flawed and wonderstruck, and sometimes conflict-riddled, continued expansion into the endless succession of multiple earths, some Continue Reading
Galactic love true love: Star Wars goes speed dating
Everyone, and I mean everyone wants to experience what the befuddled priest in The Princess Bride called “wuv, tru wuv, [that] will fowow you foweva …” Yes even Boba Fett. And the Emperor (who apparently is into S&M, which entirely makes sense). Just how into finding the right person Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: A. C. O. D. (Adult Children of Divorce)
SNAPSHOT The satirical comedy tentatively titled “A.C.O.D.” (Adult Children of Divorce) is the story of a grown man still caught in the crossfire of his parents’ 15-year-old divorce. The lead character discovers he was unknowingly part of a study on divorced children. He’s enlisted in a follow-up years later Continue Reading
Now this is music #12: Vancouver Sleep Clinic, Nolwenn Leroy, Neko Case, FKA Twigs, Volcano Choir
Sooooooo … You’ve run another marathon-like race with all the rats, you’re so full of caffeine form trying trying to stay awake that you feel like a giant walking expresso, and need to just sit down, smell the flowers and take some time to realign your chakras, fix your Continue Reading