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
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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
Star Wars: A New Hope ended in just 60 seconds? Totally could’ve happened
Don’t get wrong – I love Star Wars: A New Hope (or as it was known when I was kid and saw it in a one-screen cinema in Ballina, NSW, Australia, Star Wars). I could quite happily watch it again and again and again and have done just that Continue Reading
Who are you Christopher Robin? Winnie the Pooh to the rescue! (film photos)
SNAPSHOT In the heartwarming live-action adventure Disney’s Christopher Robin, the young boy who loved embarking on adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood with a band of spirited and loveable stuff animals, has grown up and lost his way. Now it is up to his childhood friends to venture into Continue Reading
Movie review: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The past is something you never really escape. It embeds itself in you, shapes you, moulds you and lodges itself irretrievably and irrevocably in your memories, with forgetting, true forgetting, never really on the cards. That’s not always a bad thing since our past are usually a mix of Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The whimsical vivacity of Deux Escargots S’ent Vont (Two Snails Set Off)
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
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