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
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Movie review: Deadpool 2
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
Movie review: Outside In
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
Notes on a scene: Actor/director John Krasinski breaks down the lantern scene from A Quiet Place
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
The short and the short of it: The disquietening strangeness of Hyperlight
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
#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