I am always torn when it comes to endings. On the one hand, I love following the myriad twists and turns of a story, gathering up its various narrative loose ends, threads and ideas until I am in possession of (hopefully) a satisfying conclusion. But on the other hand, Continue Reading
Movies
Zoinks! It’s Scooby-Doo and Batman: The Brave and the Bold
I’ll confess – I’ve always found Batman way too dour for my superhero tastes (which are, at best, limited anyway). I much prefer superheroes like Deadpool, Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor in Ragnarok mode and even Iron Man. But Batman? A little too dark and weighed down by his Continue Reading
The Florida Project: Summer is long but is the living easy?
SNAPSHOT Set on a stretch of highway just outside the imagined utopia of Disney World, The Florida Project follows six-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) and her rebellious mother Halley (Bria Vinaite) over the course of a single summer. The two live week to week at “The Magic Castle,” a budget Continue Reading
Retro movie review: Forces of Nature
From pretty much every conceivable angle, getting married is a pretty wonderful thing. There’s all that true love forever after (well until the divorce papers are served; whoops, kinds broke the romantic spell there), committing yourself to that special someone, friends and family looking on, dressing up, dressing down Continue Reading
Is there nothing that Rogue One’s Chirrut Imwe can’t do? NO #StarWars
If you saw Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and seriously if you haven’t why not, you will remember it is one of the darkest, most bloody films in the franchise’s considerable canon. Telling the story of the intrepid band of brave rebels who successfully managed to get the Continue Reading
Movie review: Goodbye Christopher Robin
You would be hard-pressed to find anyone who didn’t spend their childhood, in some form or another, wandering through the Hundred Acre Wood with Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore, Piglet and the rest of A. A. Milne’s wonderful coterie of honey-loving friends. There was something, and still Continue Reading
Movie review: The Meyerowitz Stories
As much as we like to believe in the idea of “one big happy family”, the reality is that even the most functional and well-adjusted of families have a stubborn streak of dysfunction running through them. Perhaps it’s the inevitable outcome of flawed humanity, or of an innate predilection Continue Reading
Star Wars: Designing a Universe of Sound (video essay)
By any estimation Star Wars is a cinematic landmark. Through its 40 years of history – yes fellow 1977 viewers of the first movie we are, in fact, that old – George Lucas’s franchise, now ensconsed in and being given new life by Disney who have dramatically stepped production Continue Reading
Bright: take a dive into the dark side of things (featurette + trailer)
SNAPSHOT Set in an alternate present-day where humans, orcs, elves and fairies have been coexisting since the beginning of time, this action-thriller directed by David Ayer (Suicide Squad, End of Watch, writer of Training Day) follows two cops from very different backgrounds. Ward, a human (Will Smith), and Jakoby, Continue Reading
He’s a genius! Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas
SNAPSHOT Tad travels to Las Vegas to see his friend Sara’s latest discovery: a papyrus that proves the existence of King Midas, who turned everything he touched into gold thanks to the power of a magical necklace. But the happy encounter between Tad and Sara is disrupted when the Continue Reading