Life can change in the blink of an eye. That this all-too-knowing sage observation of the business of living is made at the start of Mustang, written (with Alice Winocour) and directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven isn’t necessarily a surprise; what does surprise is how all the wistfulness and longing implicit in Continue Reading
Independence Day for kids: Who’s that at the door? It’s aliens
With Independence Day: Resurgence currently in theatres – it is by the way not the extraterrestrial mess some critics would have you believe – it’s a timely thing indeed that Jeff Goldblum and Mashable have joined forces for the ultimate in bedtime reading sessions for kids. Yes sirree, big Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Let’s Not Panic at the end of the world
So it’s the end of the world – like the actual asteroid about to crush New York City end of the world (no zombies or viral plague thank goodness) – and life hangs in the balance, with only your teddy bear and some peanut brittle to provide any form Continue Reading