There is something brilliantly seductive about a story that grabs you right from the get-go, that immediately and successfully plunges you into a world far removed from your own, making it feel like it’s somewhere with which you’ve always been familiar (and yet not), populated by people who are Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Go travel the world with Disney!
Much as we might wish it to be different, stretching the budget to travelling to every part of the globe just isn’t possible for most of us. So let’s give a Mickey Mouse-ian gloved hand to Gallery Nucleus and Cyclops Prints Works who have taken one of the great attractions, Continue Reading
Book review: Afternoons with Harvey Beam by Carrie Cox
Grief, though intimately personal, can often feel like a very public weapon of mass disruption. As the searing loss of saying goodbye to someone, or not in some cases with the grief more for what’s lost than whom, ripples out in an every-widening wave, families, friendship groups and communities Continue Reading
Smallfoot exists suckers! The people … and the film (new trailer)
SNAPSHOT An animated adventure for all ages, with original music and an all-star cast, Smallfoot turns the Bigfoot legend upside down when a bright young Yeti finds something he thought didn’t exist—a human. News of this “smallfoot” brings him fame and a chance with the girl of his dreams. Continue Reading
Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Hank Azaria attest to the genius of Mel Blanc
SNAPSHOT Do you know how hard that is? To do to take your own character, have it imitate another one of your own characters? It’s almost impossible. If you try to combine two voices that you’re doing, you kind of just land in the middle. …we all tried to Continue Reading
Deadpool 2 is yours to own and has an off-the-wall trippy trailer to prove it!
I’m not usually a massive fan of promo videos. They’re usually fairly stock standard, name-rank-serial number kind of affairs that simply let you know something’s available and don’t go much further. And while that’s mighty handy information to have since if you don’t know something’s out there you can’t Continue Reading
Comics review: Misfit City vol. 1
Depending on where and who you are, Cannons Cove is either the site of your greatest, fondest childhood memories or a backwater with little to offer but boring jobs and creative nothingness. For fans of The Gloomies, an iconic film that defined many peoples’ childhoods, including dismissive uber-fans who Continue Reading
Avengers Infinity War is a hoot! Yeah, not really – but its gag reel is
Boy oh boy wasn’t Avengers Infinity War the funniest movie ever?! I mean, what a thigh-slapping, rib-tickling laughfest of galactic proportions! It was all I could do not to … OK, really, this was one GRIM, I say again, GRIM film and you were a cold person indeed if Continue Reading
Book review: Empire of Silence (The Sun Eater: Book One) by Christopher Ruocchio
Lord Hadrian Marlowe is, by his own admission, his own worst enemy. A patrician son of the cruelly authoritarian ruler of the planet Delos, Sir Alistair Marlowe, who does not share his class’s love of crowd-pleasing bloodsports, oppression of the poor or dismissive attitude of anything below their imagined Continue Reading
I’m gonna be! Join YouTube user The Usual Suspect and walk 500 Miles through 127 films
SNAPSHOT Bradford, UK film critic Ross Fearnley of The Unusual Suspect has created a wonderfully edited video of The Proclaimers classic song “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” being sung using clips from 127 movies. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) One of the most infectiously-catchy songs I’ve heard is “I’m Gonna Continue Reading