Love is a beautiful, wonderful, fabulous thing. But what lengths would you go to make it happen? To go from looks of longing and sweet interest to unrequited love be damned? To stoke those gloriously bright fires of love? In Extinguished, a delightfully retro animated short film from Ashley Anderson Continue Reading
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Awww love sweet orbital love: Orbit Ever After
SNAPSHOT Nigel has fallen in love. But when you live in orbit, aboard a ramshackle space hovel with the most risk-averse family imaginable, it isn’t easy to follow your heart – especially when the girl of your dreams is spinning around earth the wrong way! (source: YouTube) As Romeo Continue Reading
Movie review: The Cloverfield Paradox
If there’s one message that comes through loud and clear, over and over, through dystopian storytelling, especially those stories that come with a science-fiction bent, it’s that we venture into space at our peril. Gone are the lofty aspirations of space exploration in the ’60s; they’ve been replaced by Continue Reading
Animated Easter eggs for all! Pixar reveals some Shorts surprises
One of the great joys of going to see a Pixar film, and there are many, are the sweet nuggets of storytelling that proceed them, five-minute animation shorts that manage to introduce characters, make you care about them and tell at utterly immersive story in less time than it Continue Reading
Monsters real and imagined: I Kill Giants trailer
SNAPSHOT Barbara Thorson is your new hero. A quick-witted, sharp-tongued middle-schooler who isn’t afraid of anything. As the only girl in school carrying an ancient Norse Warhammer in her purse and killing giants for a living, why wouldn’t she be? I Kill Giants is the sweeping, bittersweet story of Continue Reading
Magic in the everyday: THE MA(D)CHINES invests the banal with the wonderful
I’m going to be honest with you – for all my optimism, carpe diem-ness and willingness to see the best in life, there are times, oh lordy there are times, when real life seem considerably less than magical. Getting on and off trains on my daily commute, making breakfast, Continue Reading
Walk Like a Panther: You shall all be warriors once more!
SNAPSHOT Walk Like A Panther revolves around a group of ’80s wrestlers who are forced to don the lycra one last time when their beloved local pub is threatened by closure. Led by the father-son duo, Mark (Stephen Graham) and Trevor Bolton (Dave Johns), this unlikely bunch of underdog Continue Reading
Josh and Scout: The power of animals to save and transform a life
Ask anyone who has ever owned a pet of any stripe and they will tell you that they’re furry/scaly/rodent-y companions play a far bigger role than simply that of an amusing companion. Whether it’s us projecting or not, or anthropomorphising our animal-loving hearts, or the animals are really relating Continue Reading
Scary or lovable? Either way, Smallfoot is coming your way
SNAPSHOT An animated adventure for all ages, with original music and an all-star cast, “Smallfoot” turns the Bigfoot legend upside down when a bright young Yeti finds something he thought didn’t exist—a human. News of this “smallfoot” brings him fame and a chance with the girl of his dreams. Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The burning irony of TIMBER
SNAPSHOT A group of logs is about to freeze to death in a cold, icy desert. When they realize that the only fuel for a warming fire is their own body, things start heating up. (synopsis via Vimeo) This is such a clever short film. What it accomplishes in Continue Reading