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
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Kiddo and the fraught adventure of finding your way in the world
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
Movie review: Mr Stein Goes Online (Un Profil Pour Deux)
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
Weekend pop art: The truthful fun of Honest Movie Posters
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
All out of love for Deadpool 2? Like that is even possible (trailer)
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
Movie review: Pacific Rim Uprising
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
A proclivity for greatness … or not? Find out what you’re made of with Prospect
SNAPSHOT A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They’ve secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon’s toxic forest. But there are others roving the wilderness and the Continue Reading
Cinema sounds: My three current favourite soundtracks (Black Panther, Call Me By Your Name, The Shape of Water)
Soundtracks are knitted into the soul of every movie you see. Often well done, sometimes not, but where they work, and work superbly, they add immeasurable depth, breadth and spine-tingling, soul-stirring emotion to a film, augmenting stellar performances by the cast. elevating key plot points and ensuring that, Continue Reading
Mash-up of #GoT and Monty Python’s Holy Grail sniffs scornfully in your general direction
It goes without saying, but hey, I’m going to say it anyway. Game of Thrones is serious, very, VERY serious. Monty Python, and specifically, The Holy Grail, is not (although, as a satire, it conveys some fairly serious ideas). So then, does combining the two rather disparate approaches to Continue Reading
No Small Parts: The superlative acting style of Sally Hawkins #TheShapeofWater
SNAPSHOT On IMDB the following is described as one of her trademarks; an apologetic and grateful presence with a shy and nervous demeanor that’s pretty accurate but there are still a few surprises …Sally’s role as as Elisa in the ‘Shape of Water’ suits her perfectly. Elisa has elements Continue Reading