Nightmares are scary – that much is obvious. But how much scarier are they when they loop over and over again, a ceaseless montage of freaky moments that repeat and repeat until you begin to wonder (a) What the hell was in that pizza I ate last night? and Continue Reading
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Movie review: Call Me By Your Name
(image via IMP Awards) There is a heady agony and ecstasy to falling in love that most films fail to capture completely in its all conflicting glory. But Call Me By Your Name, an exquisitely beautiful film about love, longing and unfulfilled possibilities, manages to portray faithfully how love can Continue Reading
Dancing with Disney: James Casey shows us how
There are a lot of wonderful things that Disney does right in its rightly-celebrated animated features. Punchy, fun characters. Delightful catchy songs. Engrossing stories. Learnable morality tales … … and brilliantly inventive dance sequences, the kind so perfectly executed that you’d like to get up and dance right along Continue Reading
Jumpy lives to jump! Video game character goes all out to win
I’ll be honest – I have never really played video games. Largely because I am stupendously bad at them – I may have been gifted with the ability to write but that was not accompanied, and frankly why would it be, with deft hand-eye coordination. So video games remain Continue Reading
Kaboom! Independence Day meets Star Wars in this entertaining mashup
Not content with saving earth from alien invasion, Independence Day‘s Captain Steven Hiller (Will Smith) and David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) have now gone inter-galactic, travelling back in time to blow up the Death Star. Yeah, sorry about that Luke, but as Norwegian comedy group PistolShrimps made amusingly clear in Continue Reading
Please Stand By: Boldly go … to LA
SNAPSHOT A young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in order to boldly go and deliver her 500-page Star Trek script to a writing competition in Hollywood. On an adventure full of laughter and tears, Wendy, played with exquisite delicacy by Dakota Fanning, follows the guiding spirit of Continue Reading
Memento: A compelling narrative told in reverse
Christopher Nolan is a talented man, known for a love of non-linear storytelling and the ability to deliver a thoroughly original cinematic experience. Think Interstellar, Inception, Insomnia and of course the film that brought this gifted director to the world’s attention, Memento, starring Guy Pearce as a man with Continue Reading
A better reality awaits in Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One
SNAPSHOT Based on “Ready Player One,” the first novel by Fanboys screenwriter Ernie Cline. In the near future, outcast teenager Wade Watts escapes from his bleak surroundings by logging in to the OASIS, a globally networked virtual utopia where users can lead idyllic alternate lives. When the eccentric billionaire Continue Reading
Movie review: The Shape of Water
Life and love are two powerful, mystical qualities that lie at the very heart of what it means to be human. In Guillermo del Toro’s latest cinematic tour de force, The Shape of Water, we gain a glimpse of how powerful they can be, of how immensely important and Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Cupid on the therapists couch in “Blissfull Melodies”
My partner and I got together on NYE 2008 hence this very Valentine’s Day post on New Year’s Eve … I have been fortunate in many ways to only ever see the upside of love. My partner is endlessly supportive and caring, the balwark I often need to weather Continue Reading