Hands up anyone who has ever thought to commbine Shrek‘s animation with Thor: Ragnarok trailer’s soundtrack? What? None of you? Well, thank Hulk that Darth Blender was so inspired and didn’t just sit there thinking “Damn that’s a left-of-centre crazy clever idea!”, but acted upon it and gave us Continue Reading
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The short and the short of it: A Single Life – Pizza, music … and yes, time travel
SNAPSHOT In this Oscar-nominated short, a mysterious vinyl record suddenly allows Pia to travel through time. A Single Life has been screened at more than 200 festivals and it has been awarded with 40 prizes. (synopsis via Vimeo) If you’ve been paying attention, you will have noticed that vinyl Continue Reading
Movie review: Maudie
Life’s capacity to be both a dispenser of both cruel fate and of loving restorative possibility is on full, luminous display in Aisling Walsh’s Maudie, an emotionally-resonant biopic of celebrated Canadian artist Maud Lewis. A woman with more cause than many to rue the day she was born, Maud Continue Reading
Is that you Kermie? The Muppets most recognisable face gets a brand new voice
What this? Kermit the Frog embroiled in a nasty juicy scandal that doesn’t also feature Miss Piggy? When news broke that the man who had voiced one of the most beloved Muppets out there for over 25 years (since creator Jim Henson’s death in 1990), Steve Whitmire, had been Continue Reading
Movie review: Small Town Killers (Dræberne fra Nibe)
You know that point in any marriage or longterm relationship where the love has died, the sex has followed suit, and you decide that it’d be cheaper and easier just to hire a hitman to kill your partner than resolve the issues or divorce? No? Well Ib (Nicolas bro) Continue Reading
How do you make a blockbuster movie trailer? Auralnauts makes it hilariously easy
“There is nothing new under the sun” proclaims the writer of Ecclesiastes 1:9, and while it’s a fair bet that they weren’t talking about blockbuster movies or the trailers their herald their behemoth-like impending presence, you can’t help but feel that had they been alive today, and seen just Continue Reading
BB-8 loses his head over cutest new residents of Star Wars universe
Unless you are obsessively keeping up with every shred, snippet and morsel of news about the seemingly neverending stream of Star Wars movies these days – not complaining being an old fan from 1977 days but there are, to be fair, many films in the pipeline – you may Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The Looking Planet
SNAPSHOT This CGI 3D Animated Short Film and winner of over 50 film festival jury and audience awards including Best Short Film, Best Sci-Fi Film, Best Animated Film, Best Production Design, Best Visual Effects, and Best Sound Design. During the construction of the universe, a young member of the Continue Reading
Movie review: Logan Lucky
If you’re a good law-abiding member of society, and let’s face it, that’s most of us, there’s a great big give-a-finger-to-the-law visceral thrill in watching people that are not you embark on a life of crime. Much like apocalypse movies (my takeout food is here; now I shall watch Continue Reading
How should Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 have ended? Here’s how!
SNAPSHOT Since it hit theaters we started building this episode. Some How It Should Have Ended’s take longer than others and this one was one of those longer ones. One because there are so many characters in this movie we had to actually cut out some of our ideas. Continue Reading