Movies

  Good lord but Earth continues to be popular with the invading aliens crowd doesn’t it? And it’s not like they just visit the one time; in Independence Day: Resurgence, Roland Emmerich’s bigger-than-galactic-Ben-Hur follow-up to 1996’s Independence Day everyone’s favourite hive mind aliens are back and this time they’ve bought Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT The near future; humanity has been all but destroyed by a mutated fungal disease that eradicates free will and turns its victims into flesh-eating “hungries”. Only a small group of children seem immune to its effects. At an army base in rural England, this group of unique children Continue Reading

  Styled as a spiritual successor to Linklater’s 1993 ode to the dying days of high school Dazed and Confused, Everybody Wants Some!! concentrates on another transitional period in many peoples’ lives – the move to college/university when everything seems possible but you wonder if you’ll be able to make Continue Reading

  Word to the wise people – if the grassy idyllic valley in which you live is threatened by an advancing mass of black mud, one which at times takes humanoid shape, you should make sure you have a giant flying flamingo at hand and some plant magic with which Continue Reading

  In this age of movie blockbusters, megaphone-loud social media outbursts and viral demagoguery, we have become accustomed to heroes, revolutionaries and agents of real and lasting change as being swashbucklingly larger than life. After all, anyone who is capable of accomplishing any kind of societal transformation must be someone Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for global internet giant Cornerstore.com. Junior, the company’s top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable and wholly unauthorized baby girl. Desperate to deliver this Continue Reading

  You could well argue that a film as beautifully made and emotionally impacting as Finding Nemo doesn’t require a sequel; that it is perfectly complete in and of itself. That argument would likely stand until you see Finding Dory, Pixar’s latest animation masterpiece which takes the forgetful Pacific Regal Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast South Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped – and no one today knows why. From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes Moana, a sweeping, CG-animated adventure Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Described as being a “star-crossed science fiction love story,” The Space Between Us follows two teens from different worlds. Gardner Elliot, the first human born on Mars, is secretly raised in an experimental colony after his astronaut mother dies during childbirth. Sixteen years later, Gardner begins an online Continue Reading