Movies

  Being repeatedly told that who you are and who you love is some divinely-cursed perversion is guaranteed to take its toll on anyone. In director Dome Karukoski’s film Tom of Finland, which beautifully brings to life the world’s foremost homoerotic artist Touko Laaksonen, we see how this seemingly unending denunciation Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Rey took her first steps into a larger world in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and will continue her epic journey with Finn, Poe, and Luke Skywalker in the next chapter of the continuing Star Wars saga. “The Last Jedi” is written and directed by Rian Johnson and Continue Reading

  Let’s be honest here – if you drink coffee, you want what’s in the cup and usually don’t much care what’s on the outside. All of “Ulysses” in teeny-weeny text? Sure. Medieval paintings of peasants plating squash? Whatevs. Truth is, if it’s not the thing with the caffeine itself, Continue Reading

  There is an exquisitely-sweet, existential joy to every last frame of Jean-Pierre Jeneut’s Amélie. Suffused with a whimsy that might seem overly self-conscious at first (but ultimately isn’t), it is an effortless celebration of what it means to be human, and the myriad flaws, foibles and blips of the psyche Continue Reading

  Superheroes are, by and large, a fairly serious bunch. Hailing from backgrounds character-formingly full of death and trauma (hello Batman, Superman), given powers which unexpectedly and absolutely alter the trajectory of their life (Deadpool, the titular here of this film) or simply born into greatness and a nobility of Continue Reading

  Step right back! Step right up everyone! There’s a new Spider-Man movie in cinemas! With a new actor – Tom Holland! – and a whole new approach! What what? Really?! Yes, really. By all accounts it’s pretty damn good, but the fact remains that it is yet another reimagining/reboot/re-whatever Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT For example, the question that led to Inside Out came when the film’s director, Pete Docter, noticed something about his daughter. According to Meg LeFauve, who wrote Inside Out with Pete Docter: “The director, he had a daughter.And she was so happy all the time, and was so Continue Reading

  If you were to turn down the volume on the trailer for Edgar Wright’s latest inventive piece of cinema, Baby Driver, it would look, for all intents and purposes, like a good old fashioned crime caper. Car chases through tight streets, down sprawling freeways and even within claustrophobically-small carparks, a Continue Reading

  Something most definitely this way comes in Neil Blomkamp’s latest short film The Firebase. And even in the midst of the hellish nightmare that is the Vietnam War, where napalm is tripping whole forests bare and the enemy seemingly lurks behind every tree and in every village, the creature Continue Reading