SNAPSHOT A ghost (Casey Affleck) silently observes his grieving widow (Rooney Mara) in his beloved home. (official synopsis via Coming Soon) Losing someone you love is gut-wrenchingly, near world-endingly sad. There is simply no way, at least at first, to begin to process the enormity of your loss, how Continue Reading
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Movie review: The LEGO Batman Movie
If you are to believe the naysayers, and quite frankly you shouldn’t if you value any sense of fun or inner child-likeness, films like The LEGO Batman Movie are nothing but crass commercial undertakings, barely-disguised toy advertisements that somehow sully the noble art of filmmaking. The truth is, of Continue Reading
It’s one small step for … wait, no, someone said that! Hyper Jump astronaut struggles to be inspirational
Rich in encouragement and emotional resonance though they are, we all too often take inspirational addresses from major figures like Abraham Lincoln, President John F Kennedy, Maya Angelou and others of their calibre for granted. But as one panicking astronaut discovers in Hyper Jump, a short film from UpbeatXProjects about Continue Reading
Movie review: In Bed With Victoria
It pretty much goes without saying but life is a messy, often unpredictable business. While he Tony Robbins and Martha Stewarts of the world would have you believe that the chaotic business of living can be corralled and civilised, the average person knows that it’s not quite that simple. Continue Reading
A sequel to Love Actually? To me, that is perfect
Love Actually is one of those films that is either deeply loved, or ridiculed beyond measure (perhaps it’s the schmaltziness? Who knows). I fall most definitely into the former camp, having fallen in love with the film when it first came in 2003, having decided for reasons that still Continue Reading
Come meet Dante! He’s a dog after a bone with a mind of its own #Coco
If the average dog could talk, and last we checked they can’t, at least not in a language we can understand (save for love, which they fluently and exuberantly), they would tell you that bones not supposed to be able to lead them on a merry dance, eluding them every Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Film and TV show icons get the stamp of approval
These stamps are gorgeous aren’t they? Not real unfortunately, and you won’t be licking them onto an envelope any time soon or at all, but they are, nevertheless, gorgeous. They are the work of Clark Orr, who has imagined in the most visually arresting of ways, what an impressive Continue Reading
Kedi gives voice to the cats of Istanbul (trailer)
SNAPSHOT Hundreds of thousands of Turkish cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul freely. For thousands of years they’ve wandered in and out of people’s lives, becoming an essential part of the communities that make the city so rich. Claiming no owners, the cats of Istanbul live between two worlds, Continue Reading
Movie review: Beauty and the Beast
Remaking any beloved film, especially one loaded with as much deserved nostalgia and reverence as 1991’s animated triumph Beauty and the Beast comes loaded with an impossible weight of Solomonic dilemmas. Do you slavishly recreate it for a new generation, a resolutely pointless exercise given there is very little Continue Reading
It’s true, animated Mariah! All I Want For Christmas is You (teaser trailer)
SNAPSHOT According to the official press release, All I Want for Christmas Is You will center around a young Mariah (voiced by Breanna Yde), who wants a puppy named Princess for Christmas. But before Princess can be hers, she has to pet-sit Jack, described as “a scraggly rascal of Continue Reading