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
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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
Love is love: The heartwarming romantic awkwardness of In a Heartbeat
My partner and I got together on NYE 2008 hence this very Valentine’s Day post on New Year’s Eve … SNAPSHOT In A Heartbeat follows a closeted red-headed teen named Sherwin whose heart literally pops out of his chest and chases after his classmate and crush, Jonathan. Sherwin must Continue Reading
Movie review: Paddington 2
Sequels are, for the most part and for a thousand different reasons, the unloved siblings of modern cinema. But Paddington 2, the sequel to 2014’s Paddington based on the stories of Michael Bond who sadly passed away this year, bucks the trend in the most fulsome and heartwarming of Continue Reading
Movie review: Breathe
However much derided the inspirational biopic might be, they are popular for one very good reason – we want to believe that adversity can make you a better person. Or, at the very least, that it doesn’t derail, to too great an extent, who you already are. The reality Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Pombo Loves You (no, he really does)
SNAPSHOT A distant father confronts a heroic but troubled past-life as an ’80’s TV show mascot named Pombo. (synopsis via Vimeo) It’s pretty much a given that at some point in your life, and this will be different for everyone, your past will come back to haunt you. It Continue Reading
I need more popcorn and candy stat! My favourite films of 2017
What a difference a year makes! This time last year I was mired in the grief of losing my beloved father and while I still miss him dearly, life returned to normal, or whatever normal looks like after you lose a parent because nothing is ever the same again, Continue Reading
Movie review: The Florida Project
If you cast your mind back to the heady days of childhood, a feat that may be less taxing for some than others, you will recall how even the most troubling of events could be coated with a playful glow with little to no effort. That’s not because you Continue Reading