SNAPSHOT In this fifth fully animated feature collaboration, the studios which brought you Despicable Me present a fast-paced, hilarious thrill ride following the secret lives that domesticated pets lead each day while their humans are away at work or school. The film stars Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart, Continue Reading
Want to go and stay at 10 Cloverfield Lane? (trailer + poster)
SURPRISE! That’s not something you often hear when it comes to new movie projects; birthday parties and unexpected gifts yes, movies, no. And it’s especially so in our hyper-connected age where it’s enough for an influential blogger or industry insider to hear a movie producer murmur about a new project in Continue Reading
Movie review: Spotlight
Humanity has a natural predilection for justice. It’s why so much of our storytelling pivots around the idea that justice is not only possible, through fair means or foul, but desirable, that the idea of someone or something such as an institution getting away with something is unacceptable and Continue Reading
In a galaxy far far away … Star Wars characters cuddle up to kittehs courtesy of Disney artists
Cats and Star Wars characters together? Surely that is a combination made in heaven! Well, if you’re a Star Wars-obsessed, cat-loving guy like me it is. Two talented Disney feature animation artists, Griz and Norm Lemay have seen fit to bring these two groups together and the resulting artwork, Continue Reading
Book review: A Year of Marvellous Ways by Sarah Winman
It is a rare thing indeed to come across a book that not only possesses engaging, beguiling characters in a world that seems as real as anything physically before you but which tells their story with a lyricism and poetry so exquisite that you stop every paragraph or so to Continue Reading
Pixar homage: How the much-loved animation studio doffs its creative hat to great movies past
There are a great many things to love about Pixar. Their ability to conjure up a fully-formed world whether it’s a child’s room or a facility where monsters go out to scare children and harvest their fright energy. Their attention to detail, their rich characters who leap off the Continue Reading
Tons o’ TV Trailers #2: Teachers, Baskets, 11.22.63, The Path, the 100
Oh ye who think that you might actually have some time to sleep, eat and smell the roses once you’re done with the five programs in Tons o’ Trailers #1 – abandon all hope of doing anything but watching a host of great programs on TV … because here Continue Reading
Do not go gentle into that good (pop culture) night: VHS gets a second lease on life
We see it again and again. A new technology comes along sweeping all before it, and we’re breathlessly told by visionaries with rose-tinted glasses on it and a glass half-full in their hand, that the world will be a far better place when it has supplanted all those pesky Continue Reading
Reset: Playing with time to save the one you love
SNAPSHOT In Reset, Yang Mi (The Bullet Vanishes) plays a single mother and scientist who is developing a method of traveling through time using black holes. And then a mysterious bad guy played by Wallace Huo (Swordsman) kidnaps her son and demands that she hand over the time-travel technology. Continue Reading
Tons o’ TV Trailers #1: Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash, Orphan Black, The Walking Dead, The Get Down
“So much TV, so little time!” could well be the cry of lament emanating from many a TV viewer’s lips in this much-remarked upon new Golden Age of Television. Or some, like Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone are calling it, “the age of Glut TV” where there’s “Too much Continue Reading