Movies

  At first glance, writing a wildly, hilariously satirical film about the death of one of the most brutal dictators of the twentieth history, and likely human history generally, would not seem like a first, best idea. But then you’re not Armando Iannucci, the writer of The Thick of it Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT In the near future, a military family uproot their lives so they can participate in a ground-breaking experiment to accelerate man’s genetic evolution. The goal? To relocate humanity to another planet and avoid extinction. (synopsis (c) Seat 42F) Humanity is a weirdly contrary species. Endlessly optimistic and resourceful, Continue Reading

  It is a rare thing to find a film that manages to both subvert a genre and yet be richly poignant and honour it at the same time. Walking Out, written and directed by twins Alex & Andrew J. Smith, manages this impressive feat, presenting us with a gritty survival Continue Reading

  What if the beauty fell for the beast? That’s the underlying idea behind the winner of the Academy Award for Best Film this year, The Shape of Water, which director Guillermo del Tor says was heavily informed by his lifelong love for the 1954 film, The Creature From the Continue Reading

  Much has been made of humanity’s “fight or flight” response to danger – the mechanism, borne of evolutionary necessity, that impels us to either take on an adversary in the hopes of besting them, or to run, as fast as we can, away from danger. It works marvellously in Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Kiddo is an action adventure coming of age film about a young orphan girl named Kim (Antonia Tootill) and her “two unusual buddies’ journey to find inner resolution and their place in the world.” (Laughing Squid) It’s cold, damn cold! And then it most certainly is not. One Continue Reading

  Falling in love is one thing; falling in love with the right person is quite another. Or so Un Profil Pour Deux aka Mr Stein Goes Online – there’s quite the creative titular translation leap going on there – would have us believe in this light farce, scripted and Continue Reading

  Why should movie trailers get all the “Honest …” fun? College Humor are justly famous for their irreverent, tell-it-like-it-is trailer parodies which call out films, much-loved and otherwise, for weird narrative inconsistencies, odd character decisions and a plethora of other WTF moments. Good news is that the movie trailers’ Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT After surviving a near fatal bovine attack, a disfigured cafeteria chef (Wade Wilson) struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Mayberry’s hottest bartender while also learning to cope with his lost sense of taste. Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a flux capacitor, Wade Continue Reading

  You could hear the cries of lament from space. Guillermo del Toro has chosen not to helm the sequel to his intelligent, bombastically brilliant 2013 film Pacific Rim, a critical and commercial hit that saw the Earth attacked by fearsome giant monsters known as Kaiju from the dimensional beyond Continue Reading