SNAPSHOT In a world full of pears, what can you find to fill your pit? A story about longing, love, and finding your other half. …Your heart will break and rejoice as the main character Avo, a lonely avocado roaming the streets of New York City, searches for something Continue Reading
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Get some peace and quiet – go on and Set It Up
SNAPSHOT New York assistants, Harper (Zoey Deutch) and Charlie (Glen Powell), are used to going above and beyond for their high-powered (and highly demanding) bosses, Kristen (Lucy Liu) and Rick (Taye Diggs). But now they’re teaming up for the biggest projects of their young careers – getting their bosses Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Back to the movies of the ’80s with Eighty²
I love movie from the 1980s. OK spoiler alert, I love movies from a number of decades, the increasingly number of which unsettles me greatly (stop aging body dammit) but movies from the ’80s, when I started going to the cinema without parental supervision, have a special place in Continue Reading
Movie review: The Bookshop
One of the most intoxicating things in life is to watch someone fulfil a long held dream. Years of quietly-nurtured hopes and expectations have come to fruition and while success is not necessarily guaranteed, the fact that the dream has found its way from the intangible environs of the Continue Reading
Fascinated you will be: The puppetry of Star Wars
SNAPSHOT [Puppeteer David Barclay], who adored puppetry since childhood, studied under the legendary Frank Oz and assisted with the Yoda character. When Oz needed to go work on another project, he gave the job to Barclay, who would go on to seamlessly recreate Yoda. Barclay also operated and voiced Continue Reading
Retro movie review: Finding Nemo (15th anniversary)
We all want to belong to someone somewhere. It’s a natural part of the human condition, a damn near unassailable imperative, but figuring out how to make that belonging work isn’t as simple as it looks. Take Nemo (voiced by Alexander Gould) and his over-protective dad Marlin (Albert Brooks) Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The mistaken identity of Elderflower
SNAPSHOT Emily has opened a florist, she’s living her dream, but she soon learns her new venture used to be a front for an entirely different business all together. (official synopsis via Vimeo) One of my favourite scenes in Richard Curtis’s Christmas classic, Love Actually, is when John (Martin Continue Reading
With a little help from his Hundred Acre friends: New trailer and poster for Christopher Robin
SNAPSHOT In the heartwarming live-action adventure Christopher Robin, the young boy who loved embarking on adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood with a band of spirited and lovable stuff animals, has grown up and lost his way. Now it is up to his childhood friends to venture into our Continue Reading
Let’s be honest! More telling-it-like-it-is movie posters from College Humor
Even though the marketing departments of the various movie studios would never admit to such a thing, there’s all kinds of hyped-up porkies being told in every movie campaign. Trailers are edited, posters designed and and in-person interviews stacked to the rafters with pertinent talking points, all with the Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Deadpool takes over Blu-ray covers of iconic films
All hail the marketing team for Deadpool 2! On the back of a plethora of very clever movie posters, inspired TV show appearances by Ryan Reynolds – singing in a unicorn head on Korean TV anyone? – and some ridiculously clever TV spots, comes Blu-ray sleeves that were slipped Continue Reading