If you’ve watched any of the Alien films, and let’s face it most of us have (and have the blanket forts we hid in when things got scary to prove it – wait, was that just me?), you’ll be well aware that getting a face hugger attached to your Continue Reading
A delightful new animated take on The Ugly Duckling
SNAPSHOT Communications company NET wanted to show how making new connections helps you get out of a funk. They wanted to emphasize their social work as part of the company’s ethos. They proposed a new take on a classic tale. We used a blend of filmed puppetry to give Continue Reading
Alien and kittens? Yep, it’s all fun and games on board the Nostromo
By any measure, Alien is a scary, tense thriller. It’s hard not to watch the crew of the Nostromo succumb one by one to the xenomorph stalking them with horrific precision – except for you Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and Jones the intrepid crew cat – without goosebumps, hands over Continue Reading
Blast off into dramedy space with The Orville
SNAPSHOT In the 25th century, Earth is part of the Planetary Union, a far-reaching, advanced and mostly peaceful civilization with a fleet of 3,000 ships. Down on his luck after a bitter divorce, Planetary Union officer Ed Mercer MERCER (MacFarlane) finally gets his chance to command one of these Continue Reading
Movie review: 20th Century Women
When a film has been as long a time coming as 20th Century Women has been one its long and winding trip to the cinemas of Australia, you begin to wonder if it will match the hype and breathless reviews that precede it. In many cases, films don’t meet Continue Reading
The absolute Wonder of love and acceptance (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT Based on the New York Times bestseller, Wonder tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time. (synopsis via IMDb) When it all comes down to it, all any Continue Reading
Now this is music #89: Knox Fortune, STRØM, Lxandra, Refs, Ruby Fields
One of the things I love about music is its complexity and relatability, the way it helps you to not just make sense of life but to add to it too, even if it all it does is lift you up for a moment. At the end of a Continue Reading
What will you become? Fear the Walking Dead season 3 (poster and trailers)
SNAPSHOT As Fear the Walking Dead returns for season three, our families will be brought together in the vibrant and violent region formerly known as the U.S.-Mexico border. International lines done away with following the world’s end, our characters must attempt to rebuild not only society, but family as Continue Reading
Book review: The End of the Day by Claire North
Let’s face it – Death does not have the best reputation around. It is seen, at least in much of Western secular thought, as the end of things, the loss of everything we know and love and hold dear, a terrifying journey into a dark unknown from which there Continue Reading
Boldly going all over again: First Star Trek Discovery trailer
SNAPSHOT Set roughly ten years before the events of the original series, Star Trek: Discovery shows a never before seen era that shaped Federation history. First Officer Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) encounters new ships, worlds and villains as the threat of war looms.(synopsis via Netflix) There was a point, Continue Reading