Movies

    Pop quiz! What a quick, visual, easy to comprehend expositionary device used in movies, particularly the pre-digital ones? No, not voice-over narration! That is very rarely done well and kinda annoying to boot. I’m referring to the use of news paper front pages, which effectively convey a ton Continue Reading

  The zombie genre has exploded in recent years, fuelled by a morbid end of days fascination with the way the apparent vivacity and robustness of human civilisation could so easily be brought down to undead ruin by any number of small, unnoticed Achilles heels. That’s good news if you Continue Reading

  No matter how you slice it, Edgar Wright is a very talented, immensely creative director/producer/screenwriter/actor, responsible for a slew of memorable movies including the Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Ant Man and most recently, Continue Reading

  It has long been said, in one form or another, that “clothes maketh the man (or woman)”. What is not as commonly remarked, but is no less true, is that clothes, or in this case, costumes, maketh the movie. One person who recognises that to the very core of Continue Reading

  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