It’s a rare thing indeed these days to walk out of a romantic comedy, more popularly referred to as rom-coms, with your head held high, a skip in your step and a strong sense that the world is a wonderful place. Too often you are left with a nagging Continue Reading
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Weekend poster art: Celebrate the triumph of #WonderWoman with these wonderful posters
SNAPSHOT From Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Entertainment comes the epic action adventure starring Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen and Robin Wright, directed by Patty Jenkins. Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered Continue Reading
Back to Windsor Gardens: Paddington 2 trailer makes its gloriously sweet and clumsy debut
SNAPSHOT The sequel to the worldwide hit family film finds Paddington happily settled with the Brown family in Windsor Gardens, where he has become a popular member of the community, spreading joy and marmalade wherever he goes. While searching for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy’s hundredth Continue Reading
Movie review: Wonder Woman
In the much-storied, trope-heavy world of superhero movies, Marvel has, for what feels like an eternity, been the 800-pound gorilla, throwing epic, blockbuster film after epic blockbuster film at audiences, each one seemingly more successful and zeitgeist-dominating than the last, its erstwhile rival DC Comics always consigned to a Continue Reading
Movie review: Alien Covenant
The act of creation is generally seen as a wholly positive thing, the beginning of new life, with the myriad possibilities that entails. But in Alien: Covenant, which more than successfully bridges the lacklustre Prometheus, and the later Alien films, it’s an altogether darker affair, one that strips creation bare Continue Reading
How do you fend off an Alien: Covenant face hugger? Let Rick and Morty show you how!
If you’ve watched any of the Alien films, and let’s face it most of us have (and have the blanket forts we hid in when things got scary to prove it – wait, was that just me?), you’ll be well aware that getting a face hugger attached to your Continue Reading
A delightful new animated take on The Ugly Duckling
SNAPSHOT Communications company NET wanted to show how making new connections helps you get out of a funk. They wanted to emphasize their social work as part of the company’s ethos. They proposed a new take on a classic tale. We used a blend of filmed puppetry to give Continue Reading
Alien and kittens? Yep, it’s all fun and games on board the Nostromo
By any measure, Alien is a scary, tense thriller. It’s hard not to watch the crew of the Nostromo succumb one by one to the xenomorph stalking them with horrific precision – except for you Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and Jones the intrepid crew cat – without goosebumps, hands over Continue Reading
Movie review: 20th Century Women
When a film has been as long a time coming as 20th Century Women has been one its long and winding trip to the cinemas of Australia, you begin to wonder if it will match the hype and breathless reviews that precede it. In many cases, films don’t meet Continue Reading
The absolute Wonder of love and acceptance (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT Based on the New York Times bestseller, Wonder tells the incredibly inspiring and heartwarming story of August Pullman, a boy with facial differences who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time. (synopsis via IMDb) When it all comes down to it, all any Continue Reading