SNAPSHOT For their eighth fully animated feature, Illumination and Universal Pictures present “The Grinch,” based on Dr. Seuss’ beloved holiday classic. The Grinch tells the story of a cynical grump who goes on a mission to steal Christmas, only to have his heart changed by a young girl’s generous Continue Reading
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The short and the short of it: CTRL Z and the messy art of life do-overs
SNAPSHOT A Science Fiction Romantic Comedy. An adventure through time begins in a greasy Manchester cafe, when Ed; a hopeless in love inventor, creates a device that allows him to undo time. With unlimited chances he has hopes of impressing the girl of his dreams, but that’s not as Continue Reading
Don’t look now: Bird Box charts a chillingly-blind path through the apocalypse
SNAPSHOT When a mysterious force decimates the world’s population, only one thing is certain: if you see it, you take your life. Facing the unknown, Malorie finds love, hope and a new beginning only for it to unravel. Now she must flee with her two children down a treacherous Continue Reading
Retro movie review: The NeverEnding Story
The imagination is a powerful thing. It can take us take us to places we would never otherwise see, either beyond they simply don’t exist or are beyond our reach, conjure us beings and worlds without measure and limit, and send us journeys that never have to end. Every Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art: Bright Disney, Dark Burton
Life is all about the light and dark, the fun-filled and the horror-packed, the exuberantly sunshine-y and the bleakly maudlin. That’s why, much as I adore Disney and it’s cute and quirky take on things, I love it when someone like, oh say, artist Andrew Tarusov subverts those squeaky-clean, Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Fishwitch and the surprising selfless acts of love
SNAPSHOT A cantankerous, iceberg-dwelling witch is taken by surprise when a relentlessly cheery merman gets caught in her net and attempts to befriend her. Before long he begins to uncover a secret, long kept buried in the ice. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) What a delightful piece of storytelling this Continue Reading
Movie review: I Kill Giants
If there is one thing that life is very good at doing with its myriad unexpected twists and turns, its delights and its traumas, it’s making us feel like we have absolutely no control over anything. Time and again, our attempts to rein in the unruly beast of life Continue Reading
Onward into moody dystopia: Blade Runner 2049 continues on in comic book form
SNAPSHOT The comic series will continue to unravel the future-set continuity of the Blade Runner universe, picking things up after the events of the long-awaited 2017 movie sequel, director Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049, which followed the exploits of replicant blade runner K (Ryan Gosling), whose circuitous existential crisis leads him into Continue Reading
Way before they were Yellow: Coldplay documentary A Head Full of Dreams
SNAPSHOT A Head Full of Dreams offers an in-depth and intimate portrait of the band’s spectacular rise from the backrooms of Camden pubs to selling out stadiums across the planet. The film is helmed by Mat Whitecross – director of Supersonic, the acclaimed 2016 Oasis documentary – who met the Continue Reading
HO! HO! HO! Action … The Christmas Chronicles and Anna and the Apocalypse (new trailers)
There’s no such thing as too many Christmas movies! You have to trust me on this; I have watched hundreds of the eggnog-soaked things and I am perfectly fine and do not dream of Christmas all year long, itching to decorate the tree, eat chocolate-covered sultanas and buy and Continue Reading