SNAPSHOT Jeananne Goossen (Michelle on The Walking Dead) stars as Emiliana Newton, an astronaut dealing with strange circumstances when her and her partner’s (Peter Shinkoda, aka Nobu of the Hand on Netflix’s Daredevil) cryopods are ejected from the main ship. In the tense opening minutes that bring to mind Continue Reading
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#Eurovision movie review: Love.com (Amor.com)
While this is not strictly-speaking a Portuguese movie, it is a Portuguese-language one (made in Brazil) and so fit the criteria to be crowned this year’s #Eurovision film. Love, they say, is a many-splendoured thing; it is, and here the romantics of the mysterious “they” are studiously silent, also Continue Reading
Awakening a sleeping moose: Deadpool takes on the musical might of Eurovision
There are a number of great abiding loves in my life – my gorgeous partner Steve, Christmas, my birthday, caramel cheesecakes, and the Eurovision Song Contest, for which I stage a big, fun party with friends every year. We are in the thick of all things Eurovision right now Continue Reading
On ya bike! TV and movie-image rich PSA encourages us to ditch our cars
SNAPSHOT This an unbranded PSA for bike advocates and enthusiasts, content designed for anyone and everyone to share, remix, or tailor for their own purposes to promote cycling and transportation choices in their communities. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Unless you’re not paying attention at all, or have a twisted Continue Reading
Privacy is a crime: The sobering anti-anonymity of Anon
SNAPSHOT A dystopian sci-fi thriller from writer/director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, The Host), Anon centers on a detective (Owen) living in a world where privacy and anonymity have been completely eliminated. When he discovers a woman (Seyfried) who has no digital footprint, it leads him on the trail of a Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Pop culture characters get an animated makeover
As a creator, you must get used to your creations being out there, subject to proper copyright observance of course, for everyone to love, enjoy and interpret as their own. One group who makes particular use of this release into the pop culture wild of all kinds of movie Continue Reading
Movie review: Avengers Infinity War
No matter how you slice it, and frankly if you possessed Thanos’s gauntlet, which looks like a blinged-out Swiss Army knife on steroids, you could slice it any way you damn well please, physics be damned, Avengers Infinity Wars (AIW) is a monumentally epic film. With a cast of thousands – Continue Reading
What might have been … Ralph McQuarrie’s Star Wars art envisaged by The DAVE School #Maythe4thbewithyou
SNAPSHOT A long time ago in a galaxy far far away… we might have seen a version of Star Wars that featured a Han Solo with green skin and gills, Stormtroopers with lightsabers, and a female heroine named Luka Starkiller. Many of these anomalies can be seen in concept Continue Reading
Star Wars: A New Hope *is* the bright fun musical you’ve been looking for
It’s not a moon! Never were true words spoken – well okay they have been but admitting that severely lessens the dramatic impact of that opening statement thank you – but what were the musical moments woven in around those kinds of admissions? What were Leia and Grand Moff Continue Reading
Solo: A Star Wars Story and the supercut trailer that reveals everything we know so far
SNAPSHOT Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story,’ an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo befriends his mighty Continue Reading