SNAPSHOT In Vero Beach, Florida, a trio of couples at various points in their relationships become the subjects of a film about marriage being an antiquated idea that needs a reboot: Why not turn marriage into a seven-year deal with an option to renew? For Alice and Noah (Lake Continue Reading
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Dead Friends: Even zombies need loyal companions
SNAPSHOT Decades after a mysterious incurable zombie virus spreads throughout the world mankind is in danger of going extinct. Among the infected there is an old zombie and a dog that remains loyal to his master and hopes he will become human again one day. (synopsis via Laughing Squid Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The delightful hand drawn slapstick of The Inspector and the Umbrella
We’ve all been there on a rainy day. We go to pop up our umbrella, our flimsy but vital protection against a soacking from the elements, and end up in a battle royale to get it to perform the very task for which it was designed. If any proof Continue Reading
Who is more human? Find out in Guillermo Del Toro’s The Shape of Water
SNAPSHOT From master story teller, Guillermo del Toro, comes “The Shape of Water” – an other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1963. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Hawkins) is trapped in a life of silence and Continue Reading
Movie review: My Life as a Zucchini
You have never witnessed someone so alone in the world as sweet little Icare aka Zucchini (Courgette in European usage) is in the opening scenes of My Life as a Zucchini, a tenderhearted, tremendously moving adaptation by Claude Barras of Gilles Paris’ 2002 novel Autobiographie d’une Courgette. In near silence, Continue Reading
A mass of #SDCC2017 movie and TV trailers: Stranger Things S2, Star Trek Discovery, Pacific Rim 2 + more
If you are an avid pop culture consumer, and if you’re reading this blog there’s a reasonably good chance you are, you will be well aware that the nerd extravaganza of sight and sound that is San Diego Comic-Con has just finished its 48th event. With all the amazing Continue Reading
War is coming: Catch up on the history of the Planet of the Apes
SNAPSHOT In “War for the Planet of the Apes,” the third chapter of the critically acclaimed blockbuster franchise, Caesar and his apes are forced into a deadly conflict with an army of humans led by a ruthless Colonel. After the apes suffer unimaginable losses, Caesar wrestles with his darker Continue Reading
Parallel worlds: The commonality of Harry Potter and the deaf community by Nyle DiMarco
Being an outsider comes with a wealth of positives and a whole lot of negatives; pretty much like anything in life really. But as model, actor and Deaf activist Nyle DiMarco explains in this charmingly informative video, sometimes the latter can heavily outweigh the former, and you long for Continue Reading
Film review: Dunkirk
War is, by any estimation, a harrowing and horrifying experience. There is nothing edifying or life-affirming about it in any way, but as Christopher Nolan’s latest, and you could well argue, greatest masterpiece Dunkirk demonstrates with engrossing intensity, the actions of people within that macabre theatre of human misery Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The dystopian desperation of Helio
SNAPSHOT It’s been almost 200 years since “the final war”, and the masses dwell in a grimy underground metropolis, controlled by their totalitarian government’s cruel police force. It’s a grim future indeed… until one desperate man lucky enough to own a very special pair of shoes accidentally inspires an Continue Reading