Movies

  There are a lot of wonderful things that Disney does right in its rightly-celebrated animated features. Punchy, fun characters. Delightful catchy songs. Engrossing stories. Learnable morality tales … … and brilliantly inventive dance sequences, the kind so perfectly executed that you’d like to get up and dance right along Continue Reading

  I’ll be honest – I have never really played video games. Largely because I am stupendously bad at them – I may have been gifted with the ability to write but that was not accompanied, and frankly why would it be, with deft hand-eye coordination. So video games remain Continue Reading

  Not content with saving earth from alien invasion, Independence Day‘s Captain Steven Hiller (Will Smith) and David Levinson (Jeff Goldblum) have now gone inter-galactic, travelling back in time to blow up the Death Star. Yeah, sorry about that Luke, but as Norwegian comedy group PistolShrimps made amusingly clear in Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT A young autistic woman runs away from her caregiver in order to boldly go and deliver her 500-page Star Trek script to a writing competition in Hollywood. On an adventure full of laughter and tears, Wendy, played with exquisite delicacy by Dakota Fanning, follows the guiding spirit of Continue Reading

  Christopher Nolan is a talented man, known for a love of non-linear storytelling and the ability to deliver a thoroughly original cinematic experience. Think Interstellar, Inception, Insomnia and of course the film that brought this gifted director to the world’s attention, Memento, starring Guy Pearce as a man with Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Based on “Ready Player One,” the first novel by Fanboys screenwriter Ernie Cline. In the near future, outcast teenager Wade Watts escapes from his bleak surroundings by logging in to the OASIS, a globally networked virtual utopia where users can lead idyllic alternate lives. When the eccentric billionaire Continue Reading

  Life and love are two powerful, mystical qualities that lie at the very heart of what it means to be human. In Guillermo del Toro’s latest cinematic tour de force, The Shape of Water, we gain a glimpse of how powerful they can be, of how immensely important and Continue Reading

  My partner and I got together on NYE 2008 hence this very Valentine’s Day post on New Year’s Eve … I have been fortunate in many ways to only ever see the upside of love. My partner is endlessly supportive and caring, the balwark I often need to weather Continue Reading

  My partner and I got together on NYE 2008 hence this very Valentine’s Day post on New Year’s Eve … SNAPSHOT In A Heartbeat follows a closeted red-headed teen named Sherwin whose heart literally pops out of his chest and chases after his classmate and crush, Jonathan. Sherwin must Continue Reading

  Sequels are, for the most part and for a thousand different reasons, the unloved siblings of modern cinema. But Paddington 2, the sequel to 2014’s Paddington based on the stories of Michael Bond who sadly passed away this year, bucks the trend in the most fulsome and heartwarming of Continue Reading