SNAPSHOTBo Peep is back! This long-lost friend of Woody, Buzz and the gang always shared a special connection with Woody, but they have not seen each other in years, and Bo has become chipped and faded over time. Bo’s strength and sarcasm always belied her delicate porcelain exterior, and it Continue Reading
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Mash-up mania: Men in Black meets up with The Blues Brothers
Has it ever occurred to you to mash up Men in Black and The Blues Brothers? No? Me neither. But it did, pop culture gods be praised, occur to French filmmaker Fabrice Mathieu who has quite the inventive track record of coming up with mash-up videos that make merry with Continue Reading
One long adventure: The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
SNAPSHOT Sam Elliott stars as Calvin Barr, an American legend who’s haunted by a secret from his past. Once upon a time, he was the man who managed to get close enough to Hitler during World War II to shoot him dead. Now, decades later, he’s a man of mythic Continue Reading
You love them, you really love them? A montage of this year’s Oscar-nominated films
SNAPSHOT As they’ve done in past years, movie theater chain Cineplex has put together a wonderful montage of celebrated scenes from films, actors and director nominated for an Academy Award in 2019. This year includes The Favourite, BlackKklansman, Roma, Green Book, Bohemian Rhapsody, A Star Is Born and Vice. (synopsis Continue Reading
Can you sing 22 musicals in just 12 minutes? Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda and James Corden can!
James Corden, host of, as luck would have naming-wise, The Late Late Show with James Corden, love musicals. And Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda are currently starring in a musical at the moment by the name of Mary Poppins Returns (which is a supreme delight, and yes you must see Continue Reading
Sweet arachnid music: Lucas the Spider and his one man band
Lucas the Spider might be little but boy can he create some beautifully-big music. In this delightfully musical piece from creator Joshua Slice, Lucas uses violin, xylophone, drums and other instruments to create a jauntily-upbeat slice of mellow rockabilly that’s sure to get you up and dancing. (Just watch where Continue Reading
They comes in highly-listenable earworm pieces: Theme song for Lego Movie 2 released
SNAPSHOT A sequel to the original 3D computer animated film, which follows Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop Continue Reading
Mysterious! Come sleuthing with Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
SNAPSHOT The film focuses on Nancy Drew (Sophia Lillis), a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, who stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set out to solve Continue Reading
Video essay: Annihilation – The Art of Self-Destruction
SNAPSHOT Every genre brings with it a set of expectations that shapes the kinds of stories it can tell and the themes it can explore, and science fiction is perhaps the best genre to openly explore fundamental ideas of existence. So in this video, we investigate how Annihilation takes biological, Continue Reading
Movie review: Eighth Grade
As adults, we all become familiar with something called “Impostor Syndrome”. It’s that unnerving feeling that no matter how experienced or intelligent we might be, that we are essentially living life under false pretenses, with the tissue-thin veneer of accomplishment about to ripped off us at any moment. For most Continue Reading