SNAPSHOT From writer/director Tom Ford comes a haunting romantic thriller of shocking intimacy and gripping tension that explores the thin lines between love and cruelty, and revenge and redemption. Academy Award nominees Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star as a divorced couple discovering dark truths about each other and Continue Reading
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Weekend pop art: Concept artists reimagine Star Wars
There is seemingly no end to Star Wars ever-captivating universe. Not only is Disney announcing film after film for the franchise, with this year’s new entry in the cinematic canon, Rogue One, only a few short months from release, but artists continue to re-imagine their own distinctive visually-stunning takes on Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Les Spectateurs examines futuristic regret
No matter how glittering the dream or exciting the prospect, there comes a time when we must confront the loss of everything that we are leaving behind. This might not amount to much of an emotional wrench at all – we’re glad to be done with that period in Continue Reading
Movie review: Life, Animated
It was the poet John Donne who sagely and insightfully noted that “No man is an island entire of itself”, a nod to humanity’s shared, almost primal need for connection with others and the shared sense of meaning that results. There is no doubt he would see a thematic Continue Reading
From Toy Story you are – Rogue One: A Pixar Story
Mash-ups are all the rage in our digital postmodern age. So it makes perfect sense that someone would eventually merge together The Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer with some tasty Pixar scenes to create the kind of movie that I would see in a heartbeat. I mean, Continue Reading
Who are you really? Split examines life for one man with 23 personalities
SNAPSHOT While the mental divisions of those with dissociative identity disorder have long fascinated and eluded science, it is believed that some can also manifest unique physical attributes for each personality, a cognitive and physiological prism within a single being. Though Kevin (James McAvoy) has evidenced 23 personalities to Continue Reading
Obsessed with film? So is Movie Mind Machine in the most hilarious way
The novelty of watching a movie for the first time, particularly one you end up loving and adoring more than popcorn itself, never grows old. But alas watching those favourite movies most certainly does. It’s not that you don’t enjoy re-watching them – though in my world that’s a Continue Reading
Movie review: Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
The inherent ability of the ordinary to turn, without warning, into the extraordinary and take everything else along with it in a status quo-unsettling melee, sits at the centre of a great many stories, especially those in the fantasy and young adult genres. Inherent in these sorts of narratives is Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The animated sweetness of The Wishgranter
Even the best of us get jaded. It doesn’t matter how exciting our jobs are, or how emotionally-fulfilling our relationships might be, or whether we are engaged in the most altruistic of earthly pursuits, at one point or another ennui will dejectedly raise its seen-it-all head and wonder at Continue Reading
Hidden Figures: The amazing women who helped make space flight happen
SNAPSHOT Hidden Figures is the incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe)—brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into Continue Reading