Movies

  SNAPSHOT What happens when the undead return to life? In a world ravaged for years by a virus that turns the infected into zombie-like cannibals, a cure is at last found and the wrenching process of reintegrating the survivors back into society begins. Among the formerly afflicted is Senan Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Life survives in the harshest environments on planet Earth. Searing deserts, the frozen Arctic tundra. However there are more toxic places. Our cities and these have spawned an entirely new subspecies: The Australian bin chicken. Scientists have now confirmed what many Australians have believed for decades. once known Continue Reading

  There’s something utterly delightful about films that not only take to wonderful fantastical places but which remember that, sooner or later, we will have to return to the far more ordinary surrounds of everyday life. It’s that beguiling way of the day-to-day and the whimsically magical that has made Continue Reading

  What could be more horrifying than the existential nightmare of war? Surely that is the apotheosis of every last cruelly dark facet of humanity given the form of guns, violence and senseless death? It would hard to argue against that assertion but in writer/director Albert Dupontel film See You Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Biopunk is set in London in 2054, some thirty years after a virus has devastated half the world’s population and transformed them into something other than human. (synopsis via YouTube (c) DUST) The future huh? We’re not desperately enamoured with the idea of it at present are we? Continue Reading

  From Shrek to Spirited Away and Finding Nemo and The Incredibles to WALL-E and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Big Hero 6, UP to Inside Out and Zootopia, there have been some mighty fine winners of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. With the Academy Continue Reading

  Michel Gondry’s masterfully poignant 2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of those rare quirky films that not only packs an emotional punch, and how, but also says something truly meaningful. Telling the story of a heartbroken man, Joel (Jim Carrey) who submits to a prcoedure that wipe Continue Reading

  There is a particular kind of film at which the British film industry excels at an order of magnitude greater than pretty much anyone else on the planet. In these movies, a person has variously fallen on hard times/lost their way/had long-held assumptions shaken and find themselves almost catastrophically Continue Reading