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
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Who is the “Secret Alien”? You’ll spot him … the crew? Not so much … @chris_and_jack
You know those space dramas, and they are legion, where a sneaky alien, but aren’t they all, had snuck onboard a spaceship, inhabited the body of a crew member and created mayhem/death/destruction/an unexpected detour to Arkazuma 4? It’s a standard storytelling trope for many genre shows and one that, Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: One man and his girlfriend in a host of animation styles
The Bee Gees once rather harmoniously asked “How deep is your love?” (let’s be fair they asked they asked everything that way and it sounded SOOOO sweet) One person who doesn’t need to ask or even have that question answered is the partner of illustrator Kells O’Hickey who gave Continue Reading
Movie review: Swinging Safari
It is said, with a wryly amused eye on the decade’s predilection for the consumption of illicit substances, that if you remember the ’60s, you weren’t really there; conversely, a sign of having grown up in the ’70s, as yours truly did, is that you can remember every last Continue Reading
When Your Catfish Is Actually a Fish (w/ Sally Hawkins) #TheShapeofWater
For those us who have been in the dating scene, and by logical extension, childhood sweethearts aside, that’s pretty much everyone, the heartbreaking disappointment of realising the person in front of you is not what was represented in the online profile, is all too real. It’s a universal experience Continue Reading
Movie review: The Post
If history has shown us anything, and interestingly one of the protagonists of Spielberg’s masterful The Post describes newspapers as “the first rough draft of history”, it is that power, for all its love of intimidating show, prefers to exercise its less noble impetuses, of which there are many, Continue Reading
Too good to be true? Donny the Drone comes alive ready to save the world
SNAPSHOT The film opens in 2022, as Donny – a mapping drone who “woke up” after a midair collision with a bird, and now speaks with the lulling cadence of a new age guru – is being presented with a “Person of the Year” award. Since his transformation, he Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Follow these maps to a whole new movie experience
Movies are increibly intricate when you think about it. A ton of moving parts with everything from a perfectly-written script to first-rate actors to an inspired director, pitch-perfect music and dazzlingly good cinematography having to come together having to come together to make it all work. Sometimes of course Continue Reading
About as romantic as F: new Love, Simon trailer shows love with a great big secret
SNAPSHOT Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it’s a little more complicated: he’s yet to tell his family or friends he’s gay and he doesn’t actually know the identity of the anonymous classmate he’s fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying Continue Reading
Do you like your fantasy animation Short But Sweet? Well, you’re in luck …
You know how a lot of fairytales end with … “And they all lived happily ever after”? It’s a comforting thought isn’t it? Life rarely gives anything approaching truly happy endings; hell we can barely manage mildly pleased most of the time and forget about a donut when you Continue Reading