There is something inordinately exciting about watching dinosaurs roaming across the screen in front of you. Perhaps it’s the inner five-year-old in all of us that has never the lost the wonder of watching these “terrible lizards” storm, thunder, bellow and swagger with an epic majesty and otherworldliness that Continue Reading
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One tall order: Nerdist gives Skyscraper the ’90s trailer treatment it deserves
SNAPSHOT Global icon Dwayne Johnson leads the cast of Legendary’s Skyscraper as former FBI Hostage Rescue Team leader and U.S. war veteran Will Sawyer, who now assesses security for skyscrapers. On assignment in China he finds the tallest, safest building in the world suddenly ablaze, and he’s been framed Continue Reading
I love you more than everything: Beautiful Boy (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT Steve Carell and Amy Ryan are teaming up again for the upcoming addiction drama Beautiful Boy. Based on the critically-acclaimed 2008 memoir “Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction” by David Sheff. Carell will play David, and Ryan will play Vicki, David’s ex-wife. She was kept Continue Reading
Movie review: Edie
It may sound a strange thing to say in a creative medium fit-to-bursting with stories of redemption and hope but there are precious few authentic feel-good tales in modern cinema. Too often legitimately affecting narratives are over-burnished or emotionally overwrought to such a degree that they remain moving but Continue Reading
Liar liar pants on fire! Or is he? We find out in Luis and the Aliens
SNAPSHOT No-one believed Luis’s dad when he said he’d been attacked by an alien. And growing up with an obsessed Ufologist for a father hasn’t been easy for 12-year-old Luis, either. But then three crazy aliens crash their ship right in front of Luis, and finally, he’s got the Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: A pop culture A to Z by Otis Frampton
I remember fondly the days of learning my ABCs, when my kindergarten teacher Miss Allen and Sesame Street jointly taught me – contentions about how to pronounce the letter “Z” aside -how to go from the beginning to the end of the alphabet (love the song!) and how to Continue Reading
The hunt has evolved … all-new killing-happy The Predator
SNAPSHOT From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. The universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only Continue Reading
Movie review: Incredibles 2
Sequels occupy an odd place in the pantheon of Hollywood films, often eagerly-anticipated and existentially-dreaded in equal measure. They are usually, though not always, a response to a film making a cratering impact on the pop culture firmament, and while the studios make them because cash registers will likely Continue Reading
Retro movie review: The Incredibles
Being a superhero is, for the most part, a grimly singular endeavour. Sure, Marvel’s crop of cinematically-popular fighters of evil and catastrophe such as Thor, Black Widow, Iron Man and the like come together when needed as The Avengers, and even Batman, Superman and a cameo-like Wonder Woman have Continue Reading
It takes an arachnid to crush a village: Lucas the Spider in “Giant Spider”
Lucas the Spider is a sweetheart. True in the latest adventure from creator/animator Joshua Slice, Lucas, who is voiced by Slice’s nephew, he upends the lives of some fair wooden folk who he charmingly calls in on in the kind of sing-songy way people in musicals are wont to Continue Reading