Oh, this film is a whimsical joy! Based on a classic children’s poem by Jacques Prévert entitled “Chanson des escargots qui vont à l’enterrement (Song of the snails who are on their way to a funeral)”, this short film, Deux Escargots S’ent Vont (Two Snails Set Off), by Romain Segaud Continue Reading
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Fast bullets and a really serious bad guy: Deadpool 2 drops its final trailer
SHAPSHOT Deadpool forming a team of mercenaries and mutants to protect a mysterious kid (Hunt for the Wilderpeople’s Julian Dennison) from the arrival of a hardass cyborg from the future, Thanos. (synopsis (c) io9) Ladies and gentleman behold – the Merc With the Mouth aka Wade Wilson aka Deadpool Continue Reading
Telltale signs: You know it’s a Wes Anderson film if …
SNAPSHOT You know you’re watching a Wes Anderson film if there’s a rich micro world with a focus on art direction. Wes Anderson’s films have become synonymous with unique and idiosyncratic production design that makes us feel we’ve entered inside a human dollhouse. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) I have Continue Reading
Big risks and taxi fares: John Boyega interviewed on The Feed
Go hard or go home is a mantra beloved by many, a rallying cry to give something everything you’ve got or not bother at all. Pretty inspiring stuff right? Well yes, but as John Boyega, star of Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Pacific Rim: Uprising explains with down Continue Reading
Jasmine the greyhound and the healing power of a gentle soul
SNAPSHOT In 2015, The Feeln Network posted a beautiful animation that told the amazing story of Jasmine the greyhound. In 2003, police in Warwickshire, West Midlands England came upon a locked barn from where they heard the pitiful whimpering of a young greyhound who had been abandoned and starved. Continue Reading
Movie review: Rampage
There was a time when blockbusters had the power to not only thrill and awe us, but to move us as well, an intoxicating mix that saw films like Die Hard, Independence Day and even Alien/s and Terminator not only clean up at the box office, but find a Continue Reading
Melissa McCarthy asks – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
SNAPSHOT Melissa McCarthy stars in the adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats) Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) who made her living in the 1970’s and 80’s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder Continue Reading
Serving up a Pixar appetiser: Delightful Bao to precede Incredibles 2
SNAPSHOT The seven-and-a-half-minute short is a culinary fable about a Chinese-Canadian woman suffering from the depression of an empty nest, who gets a second shot at motherhood when one of her handmade dumplings comes alive. (via EW) Pixar has oft proven itself in the past as not simply the Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The watercolour wonder of Alina Chau
There is an exceptional beauty and gentleness to the extravagantly beautiful work of Alina Chau, an animator with many years experience in the industry who has worked on the likes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Beautiful and gentle it maybe, embodying the loveliest aspects of watercolour work, but Continue Reading
To infinity and beyond! Go behind the scenes with Toy Story’s voice actors
Often times, pulling back the curtain and seeing what lies behind the glittering facade, the alluring mystique can be a disappointment. But sometimes, and this is most definitely the case with this delightful behind-the-scenes video courtesy of ScreenSlam, taking a peek at the building blocks of a beloved pop Continue Reading