Comedy is one of the great joys of life, a chance to sit back and ignore the serious business of life for a moment in favour of poking fun at, musing on its ups and downs, and sometimes just being plain silly and goofy in a way that is Continue Reading
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Meet Ducky and Bunny! Toy Story 4 drops 3 new posters and a very meta trailer
SNAPSHOT Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that’s Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called “Forky” to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends Continue Reading
Movie review: Set It Up
There’s a good reason why falling in love is so popular in the movies – real life romance, lovely though it can be at times (most of the time if you find the “right” person), rarely comes close to the magnificently-confected perfection of the average romantic comedy or rom-com. Continue Reading
My Grandfather’s Memory Book: A touching tribute to a much-loved artistic heritage
SNAPSHOT …the memory book was different. It was like all his sketchbooks compressed into one — an impressionistic retrospective stretching back to early childhood. There were stories of long-lost friends next to struggles at work, moments of historical significance flowing into prosaic family vignettes: kaleidoscopic portals into moments of Continue Reading
Once Upon a Deadpool: Way less raunch, far more charity fundraising
Deadpool 2 returns! But it is not as you remember it; specifically it is coming back into theatres, sans the expletives, the raunchiness, the hilariously crass irreverence and yes, everything that made it the scourge of conservative parents groups everywhere. What you might ask is the point of all Continue Reading
“I don’t belong here!” Toy Story 4 teaser trailer and the messy business of belonging
SNAPSHOT Woody has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that’s Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called “Forky” to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends Continue Reading
Weekend movie poster art: The colourful cast of Aquaman
SNAPSHOT From Warner Bros. Pictures comes an action-packed adventure that spans the vast, visually breathtaking underwater world of the seven seas. The film, starring Momoa (Justice League, Game of Thrones) in the title role, reveals the origin story of half-human, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry and takes him on the journey Continue Reading
The agony and ecstasy of being just Five Feet Apart
SNAPSHOT Directed by star of The CW’s Jane the Virgin Justin Baldoni, Five Feet Apart stars Haley Lu Richardson (Split) and Cole Sprouse (Riverdale), who step into the roles of the diligent rule-following Stella and the determinedly rule-defying Will, respectively. The movie follows the journey of the two teens Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Tom of Tom and Jerry squished, rolled and generally bent out of shape
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
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