Movies

  SNAPSHOT Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is a darkly comic drama from Academy Award winner Martin McDonagh. After months have passed without a culprit in her daughter’s murder case, Mildred Hayes (Academy Award winner Frances McDormand) makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a Continue Reading

  There is no such thing as too much Star Wars – unless you’re a diehard Star Trek fan in which case maybe but still c’mon you can love both can’t you? – and so I bequeath these three new-ish Star Wars Blips videos which were released last month. Given Continue Reading

  For reasons known only to the cinema gods, I managed to miss watching Blade Runner when it premiered in 1982 and in every year since. Until, of course, its much-anticipated sequel Blade Runner 2049 came on the horizon, a very close horizon at this point in time, and I decided Continue Reading

  When two films in a franchise come out thirty five years apart – that’s some kind of developement hell going on there – and are set thirty years apart, it makes sense that you might want a few pieces of bridging storytelling to connect the narrative dots. So it Continue Reading

  Much as I love and adore kittehs, and I do, there is a possibility, just a minor one mind you, that they like to get their own way. Pretty much all of the time. Oh they undeniably love you, and want to be close to you and want cuddles, Continue Reading

  Love, particularly romantic love, the stuff of Valentine’s Day, romantic comedies and long moonlit walks, is regularly placed on a pedestal with many of us eager to buy into the idea that there is something unassailably perfect about the notion of ’til death do us part and selfless commitment Continue Reading

  The Walking Dead. The Newsflesh Trilogy. World War Z. Pride Prejudice and Zombies. Resident Evil. Shaun of the Dead. All those highwater marks (and quite a few low water marks, sensibly not mentioned, too) of the modern zombie genre would likely not exist, or at at least not in Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Set at the dawn of time, when dinosaurs and wooly mammoths roamed the earth, “Early Man” tells the story of how one plucky caveman unites his tribe against a mighty enemy and saves the day! (synopsis via Coming Soon) So can you imagine what it would feel like Continue Reading

  As befits a series that began life as a series of comic books by Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar, the Kingsman films, first The Secret Service (2014) and now The Golden Circle, possess a cartoonish zest to go with their tales of Bond-like derring-do, their Bourne-levels of violent self-discovery and their almost Continue Reading