Movies about grief and loss often seem to exist in an entirely different plane of existence to everyday life – part of it but set apart, always feeling like they are a captured moment in time, a still life of sadness that will never rejoin the ebb and flow that Continue Reading
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Old friends, new friends and stories that change you: New Toy Story 4 trailer + poster
SNAPSHOT Woody (voice of Tom Hanks) has always been confident about his place in the world, and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that’s Andy or Bonnie. So when Bonnie’s beloved new craft-project-turned-toy, Forky (voice of Tony Hale), declares himself as “trash” and not a toy, Continue Reading
Star Wars original trilogy – aliens everywhere you look
Think there aren’t many aliens in the original Star Wars trilogy? It’s an easy mistake to make since it’s the human beings who are front and centre most of the time; but as this brilliantly-playful video from Star Wars Kids make informatively-plain, there are way more aliens in the three Continue Reading
It’s Late Night with Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson
SNAPSHOT The film centers on Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson) a pioneer and legendary host on the late-night talk-show circuit. After she’s accused of being a “woman who hates women,” she hires Molly (Mindy Kaling), the one woman in Katherine’s all-male writers’ room. However, Molly might be too little too late, Continue Reading
Movie review: Isn’t it Romantic?
It’s all too easy in our self-aware, postmodern age to be cynical about love, true love, and specifically its cinematic purveyor of choice, romantic comedies. After all, they’re an easy target – full of cliches, well-worn tropes, generalised characters formed by questionable life choices, odd best friends happy to subvert Continue Reading
Monsters Inc: Gain a new perspective via Pixar’s Side-by-Side
SNAPSHOT Monsters Incorporated is the largest scare factory in the monster world, and James P. Sullivan (John Goodman) is one of its top scarers. Sullivan is a huge, intimidating monster with blue fur, large purple spots and horns. His scare assistant, best friend and roommate is Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal), Continue Reading
Movie review: Non-Fiction (Doubles vies)
When is a comedy not really a comedy? When it’s Non-Fiction (Doubles Vies), a 2018 French film from director Olivier Assayas (who also wrote the screenplay), the trailer for which recalls some madly funny descent into adulterous farce but which in actuality plays more as a neverending literary festival where Continue Reading
We’re all looking for Someone Great right? Netflix thinks so …
SNAPSHOT Aspiring music journalist Jenny (Gina Rodriguez) has just landed her dream job at an iconic magazine and is about to move to San Francisco. Rather than do long distance, her boyfriend of nine years (Lakeith Stanfield) decides to call it quits. To nurse her broken heart, Jenny gathers up Continue Reading
Movie review: Captain Marvel
For those of us mere mortals caught unceremoniously, and with much banality in our ordinary lives of which movies usually are not made, superheroes are impossibly exotic and exciting. They may often be of terrestrial origin, the product of a radiation leak or a spider bite or parental deprivation, but Continue Reading
Pixar SparkShorts: Smash and Grab … the liberating joy of going beyond the known
SNAPSHOT The new short film, directed by Brian Larsen and produced by David Lally, focuses on an outmoded and archaic duo of robots, who toil away at their day jobs inside the engine room of a massive train locomotive. The two risk their livelihoods when they find out they can Continue Reading