Love and music have long enjoyed a close and fruitful association with the former supplying the latter with everything from lyrical inspiration to the sort of luminous romanticism that has joined together countless musicians and their fans over millenia. This nexus is on full display in 1980s-set Sing Street, John Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Invisible’s poignant longing for connection
Love sweet adorable love. Well the idea of love sweet adorable love anyway. That’s the adorable premise behind this beautifully-realised short film from Michael Trikosko and Andrew Wilson which tells the story of an adorably shy young male lizard at a high school dance who desperately wants to dance Continue Reading
Wayward Pines: “Time Will Tell” (S2, E7 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE CORPSE OF ONE HUMAN BEING WHO DIDN’T LEARN AS FAST AS THE ABBIES* So let me riddle you this, dear Wayward Pines viewers? If you were wanting to find some way to head off the looming Abbie-ocalypse, in which the town will be overrun Continue Reading
Lazy Eye: “Do you have any idea how long I searched for you, Alex?” (trailer)
SNAPSHOT Tim Kirkman’s “Lazy Eye” follows Dean (Lucas Near-Verbrugghe), a graphic artist living in Los Angeles who receives an email from Alex (Aaron Costa Ganis), an old flame he hasn’t seen or heard from in 15 years. The two of them meet up at a vacation home in the Continue Reading
Movie review: A Holy Mess #ScandiFFAu
Ah the best laid plans of mice and gay men. What could be better than announcing to your respective families at a joint Christmas Eve dinner, which the first time either side has set eyes on the other, than you are expecting a child? Quite a bit as it Continue Reading
Finally watched: The Grinder
SNAPSHOT The series follows television actor Dean Sanderson, Jr. (Rob Lowe), who returns to his hometown of Boise, Idaho after his long-running television series, The Grinder, ends. Though Dean is not a lawyer, he believes that his experience playing one on television makes him qualified to practice law. He Continue Reading
May the proton-blasting Force be with you! Ghostbusters meets Luke Skywalker
You may think to yourself as you await the arrival of Paul Feig’s reimagined take on Ghostbusters (which hits cinemas this week), which frankly looks exceedingly hilarious, that what would fill in the spot would be a Ghostbusters/Star Wars mash-up. No? Well you should be thinking that because as Continue Reading
Get ready to scrapbook your way to freedom with the bright, colourful, fun Trolls
SNAPSHOT DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls is an irreverent comedy extravaganza with incredible music! From the genius creators of Shrek, Trolls stars Anna Kendrick as Poppy, the optimistic leader of the Trolls, and her polar opposite, Branch, played by Justin Timberlake. Together, this unlikely pair of Trolls must embark on an Continue Reading
Yeah yeah Ben Sinclair knows he’s really High Maintenance
SNAPSHOT Created and written by the married duo, Katja Blichfeld and Ben Sinclair, High Maintenance follows a Brooklyn pot dealer as he delivers to clients with neuroses as diverse as the city. Ben Sinclair stars as “The Guy,” an everyman pot dealer who makes cameo appearances in the lives Continue Reading
This is your family: Tallulah reminds us what’s important
SNAPSHOT Tallulah, the Netflix original film, was written and directed by Sian Heder (Orange is the New Black), and tells the story of young vagabond, Lu (Ellen Page – Whip It, Inception), who lives in a van and is fiercely independent in her hand-to-mouth existence. When a chance encounter Continue Reading