Movies

  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

  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

  Trying to recapture that effervescent sense of wonder you felt as a child can often feel like a fool’s errand; it’s magical if you succeed but so often elusive that you end up musing on whether all the effort was worth it. So the wise among us don’t end Continue Reading

  If you are to believe the usual Hollywood depictions of motherhood, it is either a Xanadu-esque idyll of airbrushed, rose-tinted contentment where children smile and fulfillment comes from bake sales and laughter-filled family get-togethers, or, and this is a favourite of the indie crowd, a barren wasteland of suburban despair Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT A charming illusionist, an adventurous queen of hearts and an evil green man journey through early cinema, film magic and love. Back to the Moon is an animated, interactive Doodle celebrating the artistry of film director and prestidigitator Georges Méliès. The Google Doodle, Google Spotlight Stories, Google Arts Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT The best intentions often come back to haunt you. “Mission: Impossible – Fallout” finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team (Alec Baldwin, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames) along with some familiar allies (Rebecca Ferguson, Michelle Monaghan) in a race against time after a mission gone wrong. Henry Continue Reading

  Subversion, thy superhero name is Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds). Well, more currently at least, Deadpool 2, which has roared into cinemas, dragging the entrails of its genre conventions, social niceties and a truckload of witty oneliners and devastatingly clever pop culture references in its sassy, and oft times, surprisingly heartfelt wake. Continue Reading

  Life is never as easy as it seems, an unsettling truism that is grappled with in different but sometimes overlapping ways by the three central characters in Lynn Shelton’s film Outside In. Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2017, this hauntingly low-key and engagingly-nuanced film looks Continue Reading

  There’s no escaping the fact that A Quiet Place is one hell of a tense, absolutely brilliant movie-going experience. Premised on the idea that humanity has been driven to near-extinction by vicious, possibly alien, creatures who are blind but possessed of a razor sharp, pindrop accurate hearing, it exists Continue Reading