SNAPSHOT Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it’s a little more complicated: he’s yet to tell his family or friends he’s gay and he doesn’t actually know the identity of the anonymous classmate he’s fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying Continue Reading
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Do you like your fantasy animation Short But Sweet? Well, you’re in luck …
You know how a lot of fairytales end with … “And they all lived happily ever after”? It’s a comforting thought isn’t it? Life rarely gives anything approaching truly happy endings; hell we can barely manage mildly pleased most of the time and forget about a donut when you Continue Reading
Movie review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
How do you extricate yourself from the mire of grief and its myriad, messy repercussions? Is is even possible or are you constantly captive to the irrationality and deep-flowing emotional currents that come in the wake of losing someone? They’re two of the insightfully-asked questions posed by writer/director Martin Continue Reading
Great Scott! Back to the Future doesn’t look quite so shiny in actual 2015
If there is one thing, among many to be honest, that I loved about Back to the Future films, it was its breathless, glittering expectation of what 2015 would look like. Way back in 1985, the film franchise, politely putting aside the complete and utter lack fulfilment of the Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: High-flying Disney characters go distinctly lowbrow
Think of Disney, which is well on the way to becoming the entire entertainment industry, and you think of sweet, uplifting characters, great morality and an uplifting, often inspiring take on life. Ah but not if you’re French artist Giles Bousquet who has imagined what Disney’s many iconic characters Continue Reading
More Winona face please! Stranger Things gets an Honest Trailer
It would be obvious from even just a cursory glance at this blog that I love Stranger Things. It’s not just the nostalgia factor at work although I do love the myriad influences ranging from Spielberg to Alien, E.T. to Star Wars and Dungeons & Dragons; it’s the fully Continue Reading
Oh how movie trailers have changed! A look at their evolution by @granger_willson
SNAPSHOT Movie marketing has always been an art form in and of itself, and movie trailers have now enticed audiences for more than a hundred years. With the passage of time, trailers have evolved from straightforward descriptions of films, to ominously voiced-over montages, to frenetic and spoiler-phobic teasers. Watch Continue Reading
Counterpart asks the intriguing question – what if life was different?
SNAPSHOT Counterpart is about a mysterious world hidden beneath the surface of our everyday existence. Howard Silk (J.K. Simmons) is a lowly cog in the bureaucratic machinery of a Berlin-based United Nations spy agency. When Howard discovers that his organization safeguards the secret of a crossing into a parallel Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Return of the Monster’s scary deja vu
Nightmares are scary – that much is obvious. But how much scarier are they when they loop over and over again, a ceaseless montage of freaky moments that repeat and repeat until you begin to wonder (a) What the hell was in that pizza I ate last night? and Continue Reading
Movie review: Call Me By Your Name
(image via IMP Awards) There is a heady agony and ecstasy to falling in love that most films fail to capture completely in its all conflicting glory. But Call Me By Your Name, an exquisitely beautiful film about love, longing and unfulfilled possibilities, manages to portray faithfully how love can Continue Reading