It goes without saying, but hey-ho I’m going to say it anyway, is that there are differences between the gay and straight worlds. Not unbridgeable ones of course, and one of the loveliest most heartwarming things of the modern era (hateful trolls aside) has been to watch the straight Continue Reading
Movies
Welcome everybody … to the trailer for The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales
SNAPSHOT If you think the countryside is calm and peaceful, then you might want to think again. France’s most unconventional farm plays home to a number of mixed-up animal folk. We are introduced to a fox that thinks he is a chicken, a rabbit that acts like a stork Continue Reading
Movie review: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Like most brilliantly-executed pop songs, the songs of ABBA have always possessed a beguilingly lyrical storytelling quality. There is the angst of remembered lost love in “Our Last Summer”, the exuberant romantic victory of “Waterloo” and the warning about players in love in “Angeleyes”, and a thousand other tales Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Spell of the West – birds, a cowgirl and the mysterious Ax-Man
Who is the mysterious Ax-Man and what is doing that’s traumatising the non-opposable thumb possessing and capacity for abstract thought-lacking birds that inhabit the cowgirl’s isolated cacti farm? Hint it’s not good and what starts out as three hysterical birds frantically trying to call attention to a serious, ever-growing Continue Reading
Apocalyptic Christmas? In Extinction, Michael Peña has visions of alien invasion dancing in his head
SNAPSHOT A working class father of the future faces recurring dreams of destruction by an unknown force. When his unwanted nightmares begin to affect his relationship with his family, he soon realizes they may be the key to a horrible reality, as a relentless alien attack begins to destroy Continue Reading
Forget the Good Place or the bad place! What about The Infinite Place?
Iron Man isn’t afraid of ANYTHING. How do we know this? Well, according to the latest brilliantly-clever, very funny animated video from the talented Leigh Lahav, not even death ruffles his cooler-than-cool feathers. Appearing before Michael from NBC’s sitcom-of-the-moment The Good Place, Iron Man is not the least bit Continue Reading
It’s always a sunny day when Christopher Robin comes to play (new movie trailer)
SNAPSHOT In the heartwarming live-action adventure “Disney’s 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 Continue Reading
Movie review: Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom
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
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