SNAPSHOT Life After Gravity, is a thriller on a global scale — intergalactic, really — about the blessings and poisons of extraordinary power, the many conflicts of its pursuit, and the birth of a new era for our civilization when we’re suddenly relieved of the trappings of gravity. (synopsis Continue Reading
Movie review: The Dressmaker
If revenge is a dish best served cold, then Myrtle “Tilly” Dunnage’s (Kate Winslet) arrival back in her small, dusty backwater hometown of Dungatar in 1951 after many years away in involuntary exile, heralds the mother of all frozen banquets. Not that this is immediately obvious in the opening Continue Reading
Twisted Cinema: iconic movie scenes and posters made of balloons
Rob Driscoll aka The Bowtie Balloon Guy is one very talented man. Not only is he a magician, entertainer and photographer but he is also able to twist balloons into fantastically engaging shapes like nobody’s business. His latest project makes brilliant use of his talents, with all manner of Continue Reading
So emotional: Deleted Inside Out clip shows more of Riley’s imaginary friends
We all had imaginary friends growing up. And then suddenly we didn’t as the years advanced and the characters that so filled our childhood years with delight, colour and wonder, were no longer needed, consigned to some soon-to-be-forgotten part of our memories that only the most sentimental of us Continue Reading
Great Scott! It’s Back to the Future day!
SNAPSHOT In this zany sequel, time-traveling duo Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) return from saving Marty’s future son from disaster, only to discover their own time transformed. In this nightmarish version of Hill Valley, Marty’s father has been murdered and Biff Tannen, Marty’s Continue Reading
The French undead are back: The Returned/Les Revenants season 2 (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT “The second season picks up six months after the deceased disappeared into the mountains with Simon, Camille, her mother, Claire, Julie and the mysterious youngster Victor. Since then, nothing has been heard of them. Now, Adèle is about to give birth to Simon’s child, part of the town Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “JSS” (S6, E2 review)
* SPOILERS … AND WAR AND PEACE AND CASSEROLES AHEAD * “JSS” was the episode where all the blinders came off for pretty much everyone. The good people of Alexandria, those left behind anyway while Rick (Andrew Lincoln) led the more capable fighting members off to steer the zombie Continue Reading
Pixar makes history again: Sanjay’s Super Team
Quite apart from their exquisitely-rendered, emotionally-touching movies, Pixar has also shown itself adept at crafting memorable animated shorts that often say as much in 5 to 8 minutes as their longer brethren. Far from being the unwanted support act to the latest Pixar feature-length masterpiece, the shorts such as Continue Reading
Wisdom from a Ladybird: Children’s books now come with adult life lessons
One of the great pleasures of my childhood was sitting down with my mother or father and reading through a book or three hundred (I was quite the prodigious book consumer, both as a listener, and later, once literate, as a reader). There were many books that passed through Continue Reading
Movie review: Learning to Drive
Modern life is so big, fast-paced and noisy that it’s easy to forget that the transformative experiences that define us, for good or ill, tend to take place unexpectedly in small, quiet, almost unnoticeable ways. It’s a lesson that two quite different people in New York City learn one Continue Reading