I watched a lot of cartoons as a kid. A LOT. One of my great favourites was good old Tom and Jerry, created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbara, in which a persistent cat (Tom) was always bested by a wily, cheeky mouse (Jerry) and ended up Continue Reading
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The Secret Life of Pets 2 trailer – how well do we really know our pets?
SNAPSHOT The Secret Life of Pets 2 will follow summer 2016’s blockbuster about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day. Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and his longtime collaborator Janet Healy will produce the sequel to the comedy that had the Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Colour-coded pop culture characters
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bh8zOfPgbLs/?utm_source=ig_embed Do you ever take in the amazing creativity of someone like, oh say, French art director Linda Bouderbala and muse upon the moment of inspiration when the genius idea of grouping together pop culture characters of a particular character came to her? Nope, just me? Well, I muse upon Continue Reading
What We Do in the Shadows TV series: Everyone’s favourite wryly amusing vampires return
SNAPSHOT Much like the movie, the series follows three vampires who live together: Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), and Nandor (Kayvan Novak) — the former two are husband and wife. Also living with them is a fourth vampire named Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), who’s an ‘energy vampire’. Instead Continue Reading
Movie review: Bohemian Rhapsody
A lot gets asked of the average biopic. It must give us a penetrating insight into the life of the subject, preferably something that is unknown (easier with people no longer on the crest of the digital zeitgeist) or at least little known, it must be entertaining and recall Continue Reading
Come and sample Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion (Astérix: Le secret de la potion magique)
SNAPSHOT The druid Getafix nimbly clambers up and down oak trees to gather mistletoe in the forests surrounding the Village of the Indomitable Gauls. But one day the expert climber has a bad fall. And my, does that get him worrying! What on earth would happen if he was Continue Reading
Ralph Breaks the Internet clip: KnowsMore needs to take a searching chill pill
SNAPSHOT Ralph Breaks the Internet 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 Sarah Continue Reading
Movie review: Cargo #Halloween2018
As you watch yet another hapless victim run fruitlessly from a ravenous pack of the undead, it is easy to think there is nothing new under the zompocalyptic sun. But its obvious from the start of Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke’s wondrously evocative and emotionally-intimate Cargo, a remark of their Continue Reading
You’re a musical one Mr Grinch! First Tylor the Creator soundtrack song released
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
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