Childhood is supposed to be a safe, idyllic, untroubled place. Yet for a million different reasons that are as diverse as the various failings of the human race, it fails to be the fairytale dream it’s supposed to be, overwhelming young growing minds with the kinds of challenges and Continue Reading
Movies
Avengers Infinity War: How should it have ended?
Avengers: Infinity War is grim, people, GRIM with the kind of ending that has you leaving the theatre with a desperate, impelling need to eat your body weight in junky comfort food (which as luck would have it, cinemas have in abundance; true, it will bankrupt you ten times Continue Reading
Movie review: The Wife
There is a brittleness that permeates the entire length of the Björn Runge directed, Jane Anderson-scripted film The Wife (based on the book of the same name by Meg Wolitzer) which has nothing to do with the snowy wintry setting of Stockholm where much of the story takes place. The Continue Reading
Jurassic Park: Using theme to craft character (video essay)
Michael from Lessons from the Screenplay – you can sponsor him on Patreon and you should, you really should – creates breathtakingly detailed but beautifully-accessible video essays. In one of his latest instalments, he explores how a big, bombastic blockbuster, Jurassic Park, used it riveting storyline and finely-etched characters Continue Reading
What They Had: Sometimes going home brings us closer to where we belong
SNAPSHOT The film centers on a family in crisis. Bridget (Hilary Swank) returns home to Chicago at her brother’s (Michael Shannon) urging to deal with her mother’s (Blythe Danner) Alzheimer’s and her father’s (Robert Forster) reluctance to let go of their life together. (synopsis via Coming Soon) Life, for Continue Reading
Wreck It Ralph 2 is off to the colourful madness of the interwebs (new trailer)
SNAPSHOT Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 leaves Litwak’s video arcade behind, venturing into the uncharted, expansive and thrilling world of the internet—which may or may not survive Ralph’s wrecking. Video game bad guy Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz (voice of Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Go travel the world with Disney!
Much as we might wish it to be different, stretching the budget to travelling to every part of the globe just isn’t possible for most of us. So let’s give a Mickey Mouse-ian gloved hand to Gallery Nucleus and Cyclops Prints Works who have taken one of the great attractions, Continue Reading
Smallfoot exists suckers! The people … and the film (new trailer)
SNAPSHOT An animated adventure for all ages, with original music and an all-star cast, Smallfoot turns the Bigfoot legend upside down when a bright young Yeti finds something he thought didn’t exist—a human. News of this “smallfoot” brings him fame and a chance with the girl of his dreams. Continue Reading
Deadpool 2 is yours to own and has an off-the-wall trippy trailer to prove it!
I’m not usually a massive fan of promo videos. They’re usually fairly stock standard, name-rank-serial number kind of affairs that simply let you know something’s available and don’t go much further. And while that’s mighty handy information to have since if you don’t know something’s out there you can’t Continue Reading
Avengers Infinity War is a hoot! Yeah, not really – but its gag reel is
Boy oh boy wasn’t Avengers Infinity War the funniest movie ever?! I mean, what a thigh-slapping, rib-tickling laughfest of galactic proportions! It was all I could do not to … OK, really, this was one GRIM, I say again, GRIM film and you were a cold person indeed if Continue Reading