When you’re a pop culture tragic such as myself – “Hi, my name is Andrew and I’m a pop culture addict”, it tends to infiltrate every part of your life. Your T-shirts display your favourite characters. Your book shelves are lined with books on your favourite TV shows and Continue Reading
Movies
Fun festive animation: Rollin’ rollin’ rollin’ ever closer to Santa
It’s a question worth pondering, perhaps over a glass of eggnog or while chowing down on some chestnuts, fresh from roasting on an open fire: “If all animals became round overnight, would their daily life still run that smoothly?” And the answer is … not so well and damn Continue Reading
Tick tock! How time travel is represented in fiction
SNAPSHOT For ages I’ve been thinking about doing a video analyzing time travel in fiction and doing a comparison of different fictional time travels – some do use wormholes, some relativistic/faster than light travel with time dilation, some closed timelike curves, some have essentially “magic” or no consistent rules Continue Reading
Movie review: Wonder
Hollywood has a long and enduring love affair with social outliers. In countless films it has celebrated them as the outsiders, the others, who stand outside the banality and sameness of mainstream society and whether by design or unwanted but seized-upon circumstance, boldly forge their own path. The thing Continue Reading
“Here’s Johnny!” Watch iconic movie lines get animatedly reimagined
I love people with the capacity to take near-omnipresent things like iconic movie lines, which are bandied around like confetti at an environmentally-unfriendly weddings and make them into something wholly different, and most importantly, fun. Brighton, UK animator Nick Murray Willis has taken quotes from the likes of Lord Continue Reading
Goodbye Woody! Dive into this poignant supercut of Pixar film endings
I am always torn when it comes to endings. On the one hand, I love following the myriad twists and turns of a story, gathering up its various narrative loose ends, threads and ideas until I am in possession of (hopefully) a satisfying conclusion. But on the other hand, Continue Reading
Zoinks! It’s Scooby-Doo and Batman: The Brave and the Bold
I’ll confess – I’ve always found Batman way too dour for my superhero tastes (which are, at best, limited anyway). I much prefer superheroes like Deadpool, Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor in Ragnarok mode and even Iron Man. But Batman? A little too dark and weighed down by his Continue Reading
The Florida Project: Summer is long but is the living easy?
SNAPSHOT Set on a stretch of highway just outside the imagined utopia of Disney World, The Florida Project follows six-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) and her rebellious mother Halley (Bria Vinaite) over the course of a single summer. The two live week to week at “The Magic Castle,” a budget Continue Reading
Retro movie review: Forces of Nature
From pretty much every conceivable angle, getting married is a pretty wonderful thing. There’s all that true love forever after (well until the divorce papers are served; whoops, kinds broke the romantic spell there), committing yourself to that special someone, friends and family looking on, dressing up, dressing down Continue Reading
Is there nothing that Rogue One’s Chirrut Imwe can’t do? NO #StarWars
If you saw Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and seriously if you haven’t why not, you will remember it is one of the darkest, most bloody films in the franchise’s considerable canon. Telling the story of the intrepid band of brave rebels who successfully managed to get the Continue Reading