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
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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
Weekend pop art: My favourite Star Wars posters
40 years ago this year, somewhere around the 27 October to be precise, I saw Star Wars: A New Hope (then just plain old Star Wars) – to be fair I highly doubt my mother took me to the small one room cinema in Ballina on opening day or Continue Reading
The hero DCEU doesn’t deserve: Wonder Woman Honest Trailer
Wonder Woman, this year’s superhero smash hit, was a breath of cinematic fresh air. Featuring a kickass female hero who was capable and strong and yet demonstrably human (while, yes, still being a literal god), the film, directed by Patty Jenkins, who now has the gig for Wonder Woman Continue Reading
Radius: Don’t come near me or you’ll die (trailer)
SNAPSHOT Co-directed by filmmakers Caroline Labrèche and Steeve Léonard, Radius is about a guy who wakes up from an accident with no memory and an unfortunate power: if anyone ventures too close to him, they die instantly. (synopsis (c) Gizmodo) With the current deluge of superhero films showing no Continue Reading
Movie review: Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Society has some weirdly orthodox ideas about love. It should occur between people of roughly the same age, an older man with a younger woman (or man) is fine but the reverse, oddly and misogynistically, is not, and marriage is lauded while living together, though commonly practised, is not. Continue Reading
The John Lewis Christmas ad 2017 is here! And so the festive season begins …
Year after gloriously festive year, the Christmas ads of UK department store John Lewis are that one rare exception to featuring commercial ads on this blog. That’s largely because the ads, while obviously selling something, are far more creative than your usual “Hey we have Christmas stuff! Come and Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: To every letter of the alphabet, a pop culture icon
Now if you’re anything like me (way older than school age), it’s highly likely you haven’t been asked to recite your ABCs or sing the Alphabet Song for quite some time. Which is a pity because two artists, Tom Whalen and Dave Perillo, who recently exhibited their work at Continue Reading
Blade Runner — Constructing a Future Noir #MichaelTucker
SNAPSHOT Blade Runner was the first film to take the deep thematic elements of classic film noirs and put them into a future sci-fi world. This video explores what those elements are, and how they were incorporated. (synopsis (c) Michael Tucker) Blade Runner is rightly hailed as one of Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The Inksect and the loss of books and freethinking
SNAPSHOT In a dystopian future where fossil fuels were exhausted, ruling corporations had turned to desperate measures to generate energy. Books were banned & confiscated as fuel for the fire, and with them free thinking had been lost. Human beings had morphed into illiterate cockroaches. In New York City Continue Reading