SNAPSHOT In MISTRESS AMERICA, Tracy (Lola Kirke) is a lonely college freshman in New York, having neither the exciting university experience nor the glamorous metropolitan lifestyle she envisioned. But when she is taken in by her soon-to-be stepsister, Brooke (Greta Gerwig) – a resident of Times Square and adventurous Continue Reading
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The short and the short of it: Mourning in beautiful black and white with Hikari Toriumi’s Koishi
SNAPSHOT “A boy overcomes the loss of his father through the encounter with the spirits of ancestor. The title is a Japanese pun, ‘KOI’ being the kind of fish used for the flag designs and ‘KOISHI (こいし)’ meaning ‘I miss you’.” Grief, as so many of us regrettably know from Continue Reading
Movie review: Woman in Gold
In this flawed worlds of ours, justice is an often elusive outcome. While we speak loftily of it, praising its many virtues and confirming its importance, it often falls foul of humanity’s propensity to entertain the lesser angels of its nature ahead of those of a more laudable nature. Complicating Continue Reading
What if? Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur ponders what might have been (teaser trailer)
SNAPSHOT The Good Dinosaur asks the question: What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? Pixar Animation Studios takes you on an epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely Continue Reading
Book review: The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
Ask any writer and they will tell you that the seemingly mundane act of putting pen to paper, whether literally or figuratively, can often seem quite magical and strangely supernatural. Characters seem to come alive and talk to you, as real as your physical friends and family, demanding to Continue Reading
American Ultra: Meet your favourite new stoned cold killer (posters + trailer)
SNAPSHOT American Ultra is a fast-paced action comedy about Mike (Jesse Eisenberg), a seemingly hapless and unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe (Kristen Stewart), is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of Continue Reading
Movie review: Aloha
Imagine if you will that you suddenly found yourself desperately short of time, required by some inexplicable deadline to watch all the films of Cameron Crowe’s oft-charming, many times insightful cinematic output and report on it in the shortest time possible. What would you do? What would you do … Would Continue Reading
Now this is music 50: Hollow Sunshine, Róisín Murphy, Yale, Villette, Maya Vik
I love a balance between music that soothes the soul and encourages the heart and mind to ponder the deeper parts of the human condition. There is the sense that you’re immersed in a world far removed from the day to day grunge of commuting and Excel spreadsheets, Continue Reading
Movie review: Tomorrowland
Keeping your childlike sense of wonder and boundless optimism into adulthood can be a tall order, especially when, like Frank Walker (George Clooney), you have good reason to discard it favour of well-worn cynicism and paranoid distrust. But as the Brad Bird-directed Tomorrowland reminds us over and over in Continue Reading
“What fresh hell is this?”: The hilariously revengeful sorority whodunnit, Scream Queens
SNAPSHOT Wallace University is rocked by a string of murders. Kappa House, the most sought-after sorority for pledges, is ruled with an iron fist (in a pink glove) by its Queen Bitch, CHANEL OBERLIN (Emma Roberts, American Horror Story: Freak Show, Scream 4). But when anti-Kappa DEAN MUNSCH (Jamie Lee Continue Reading