SNAPSHOT In Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns, an all new sequel with a fresh sensibility that celebrates the spirit of the original, Mary Poppins is back to help the next generation of the Banks family find the joy and wonder missing in their lives. Emily Blunt (The Girl on the Continue Reading
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Film review: Boy Erased
For a species that has used endless ingenuity and creativity to scramble its way up the evolutionary pile, humanity can be hideously inflexible at times. There is something hardwired into the very fabric of Homo sapiens that lends itself to entrenched adherence to a set of beliefs, no matter Continue Reading
Surviving pageant season: Dumplin’ gloriously challenges the idea of who is beautiful and why
SNAPSHOT Directed by Anne Fletcher, DUMPLIN’ follows an outspoken plus-sized teenage girl named Willowdean (Danielle Macdonald), who’s known as Will to her friends and Dumplin’ to her mother (Jennifer Aniston), a former beauty queen who now runs the local Miss Teen Blue Bonnet pageant. In her small Texas town, Continue Reading
Star Wars and John Boyega: Animated video delightfully shows how the two came together
SNAPSHOT Courtesy of BBC Two’s Black Hollywood, this short clip pairs John Boyega’s incredibly charming story about being cast in The Force Awakens with equally charming animation, making the story pop. See how Boyega became Finn, a fun little story that involves some white lies, an expensive cab ride, Continue Reading
Retro movie review: Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (30th anniversary)
Diving back into the bright, technicolour world of the Robert Zemeckis-directed Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, which was released officially in Australia on 24 November 1988, is like re-acquainting yourself with a very funny, hilariously bawdy old friend whom you haven’t seen in years but with whom you still have Continue Reading
Go where no brick has gone before: The Lego Movie 2 – The Second Part
SNAPSHOT The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part reunites the heroes of Bricksburg in an all new action-packed adventure to save their beloved city. It’s been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens are facing a huge new threat: LEGO DUPLO invaders from outer space, wrecking everything Continue Reading
Who’s a Big Damn Hero? Mal and the crew of Firefly of course
SNAPSHOT Captain Malcolm Reynolds finds himself in a dangerous situation after being kidnapped by a bunch of embittered veteran Browncoats. (synopsis via EW) If you listen carefully, you can hear the sound of Firefly devotees wailing and gnashing their teeth, and bemoaning, once again, the fact the series was Continue Reading
Movie review: Fantastic Beasts – The Crimes of Grindelwald
Quite possibly one of the loveliest things that good fantasy or magically real films do is transport their audiences to a world far away from their own. While you are technically still sitting in a cinema, every other part of you, the dreaming, yearning, imaginatively-expansive parts of you are Continue Reading
Up, up and away: Dumbo gains cinematic altitude with new poster + trailer
SNAPSHOT From Disney and visionary director Tim Burton, the all-new grand live-action adventure “Dumbo” expands on the beloved classic story where differences are celebrated, family is cherished and dreams take flight. Circus owner Max Medici (Danny DeVito) enlists former star Holt Farrier (Colin Farrell) and his children Milly (Nico Continue Reading
Celebrate the weird and let your freak flag fly: Ugly Dolls trailer + posters
SNAPSHOT In the adorably different town of Uglyville, weird is celebrated, strange is special and beauty is embraced as more than simply meets the eye. Here, the free-spirited Moxy and her UglyDolls friends live every day in a whirlwind of bliss, letting their freak flags fly in a celebration Continue Reading