Movies

  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

  Neil Gaiman is an imaginative, thoughtful, powerfully-talented writer with a seemingly endless capacity to take what many of us are thinking and put it into cogent, poetically-articulate form. So when you marry up his powerful poem Hate For Sale, on the seductive (though destructive) power of hatred, with the Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT In a brand new Jumanji adventure, the tables are turned as four teenagers are sucked into Jumanji’s world – pitted against rhinos, black mambas and an endless variety of jungle traps and puzzles. To survive, they’ll play as characters from the game: meek Spencer becomes a brave explorer Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Reality doesn’t happen by itself. Terry Lothian works tirelessly to maintain the background details that we all take for granted. But with his department feeling the pinch of austerity cutbacks, it’s not just the fabric of reality that’s starting to unravel. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Life moves along Continue Reading