SNAPSHOT Maya DiMeo (Minnie Driver) is a mom on a mission who will do anything for her husband Jimmy, her kids Ray, Dylan, and JJ, her eldest son with cerebral palsy. As Maya fights injustices both real and imagined, the family works to make a new home for themselves, Continue Reading
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The closest of friends find each other in The Littlest Bigfoot (book trailer)
SNAPSHOT The Littlest Bigfoot follows lonely Alice Mayfair, who is neglected by her parents and sent to a string of boarding schools. She’s self conscious about her body and frizzy hair and wants to find a friend. She does so in kindred spirit, Millie Maximus, a Bigfoot, and fights Continue Reading
12 parsecs or bust! Conan O’Brien auditions a galaxy of comedic talent for young Han Solo
Unless you’ve been living in a galaxy far, far away a long, long time ago, you’ll probably be aware of the fact that Alden Ehrenreich has been chosen to play a younger Han Solo, in one of series of Star Wars films designed to give us some backstory on Continue Reading
The drive to explore: The Search for Earth Proxima speaks to humanity’s need to discover and learn
SNAPSHOT Since astronomers first discovered exoplanets in 1995, we’ve come to learn that there are a staggering amount of planets out there in the universe. But, we have yet to find one that’s habitable, aside from our own. The Search for Earth Proxima is a short documentary about a Continue Reading
Wubba lubba dub dubs: The cast of Rick and Morty improvise a mini-episode
Rick and Morty is delightfully, deliciously, darkly, fabulous strange and wildly imaginative, both verbally and visually – yes I seem to have slipped into an alliterative stream and I’m just going to go with it – delivering up two seasons of wacked-out adventures through space, time and weird dimensions on Adult Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The adorable tug-of-war of Trashonauts
We all have boring days at work; if we’re really unlucky boring years at work. But what happens if all that deadening routine goes out the window one day and we’re faced with a total upending of the enervating apple cart? If you’re Griff Garbinski, a grumpy collector of Continue Reading
First impressions: HBO’s The Night Of
It’s tempting when you’re watching a glossy TV series centering on the criminal justice system like Law & Order or CSI to assume that everything works meticulously well and that its very inhabitants from the police through to the crime scene investigation teams and lawyers work together as a harmonious Continue Reading
Trust us there’s a very funny side to being Cooped Up
SNAPSHOT After coming into contact with a potentially fatal virus, a bitter professional wrestler is forced to isolate himself in his childhood home for 21 days. (synopsis via Cinema Australia) Back when the most recent Ebola epidemic was ravaging the three countries of Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea, the Continue Reading
The Get Down: You can rule the world
SNAPSHOT The Get Down focuses on 1970s New York City – broken down and beaten up, violent, cash strapped — dying. Consigned to rubble, a rag-tag crew of South Bronx teenagers are nothings and nobodies with no one to shelter them – except each other, armed only with verbal Continue Reading
Marvellous mass of movie trailers: Other People, The Light Between Oceans, The Hollars, Loving, La La Land
You may have noticed there’s a lot going on in this thing we call life. Which is why I think there’s an endless array of movies to tell its stories – all the heartache, laughter, silliness, gravity and pain, and all the nuanced and messy emotions inbetween. So here Continue Reading