SNAPSHOT Director Tim Wilson is a huge fan of The Far Side and wanted to bring a couple of the comics to life. So he assembled the team at Bruton Stroube and after many hours of reading through old Far Side books they landed on their two favorite comics. Continue Reading
Movies
Mass of movie trailers: Lego Movie 2, The Spy Who Dumped Me, Occupation, Bumblebee, Mortal Engines
There are so many movies on the schedule right now. True, that could be said of any year but 2018 seems to be delivering up a bumper collection of films such as that my self-care limit of one movie a week – I want going to the movies to Continue Reading
Movie review: Aurore (I Got Life!)
Time is not particularly good to anyone. Oh, it bestows some blessings, if you would like to call them that, such as wisdom, emotional maturity and insight, and even material gain if that’s what rocks your existentially long-in-the-tooth boat. But we all make do, grabbing those precious moments of Continue Reading
The short and the short it: Flies, love and the adorableness of Darrel
SNAPSHOT Exchange of glances in the subway. How many opportunities have you let slip? Darrel will do everything possible to not let this one escape. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Is it possible to win the heart of an attractive lady chameleon by flies alone? Darrel, the adorably awkward star Continue Reading
10 years of Deadpool … and minor X-Men, poor career decisions by Ryan Reynolds and oh yeah, 2 movies
Oh lordy but isn’t the marketing for Deadpool 2 almost, and I stress almost because let’s be honest, the movie is AMAAA-ZIIING (yes that is my vowel allotment for this post almost exhausted but I care not), as good as the film itself? Deadpool on the covers of 16 Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: An endearing avocado half forlornly searches for love in The Pits
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
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