SNAPSHOT Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is an all-new adventure returning us to the wizarding world created by J.K. Rowling. Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) stars in the central role of wizarding world magizoologist Newt Scamander, under the direction of David Yates, who Continue Reading
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Animals and us: How Sir David Attenborough shines a light on the life of planet earth
“I think we have a very fortunate time living a very fortunate – technology that can enable us to do things and we want to use it with some sense of responsibility for the next generation. And it is absolutely the case that animal species are disappearing and it’s Continue Reading
A Stray: The tale of one man, a persistent dog and a transforming crisis of faith
SNAPSHOT Musa Syeed’s film A Stray follows Adan (Barkhad Abdirahman), a Somali refugee living in Minneapolis with no place to go. His mom has kicked him out and his friends are tired of his headstrong ways. As a last resort, he moves into the mosque, and surprisingly, God answers his prayers. He quickly Continue Reading
My favourite kind of hilarious: Kate McKinnon’s improv outtakes from Ghostbusters
One of the standout stars of this year’s immensely-wonderful all-female addition to the Ghostbusters franchise, Ghostbusters: Answer the Call, was Kate McKinnon who played the part of gloriously-unhinged but ferociously-intelligent scientist Dr Jillian Holtzmann. One of the current stars of Saturday Night Live (SNL), McKinnon is regrettably not hugely Continue Reading
Movie review: This Beautiful Fantastic
If you believe the near-constant barrage of ads glorifying the bold, the beautiful and the attractively conformist, then only those fitting a very narrow ideal of social acceptance have any chance of finding love. But Simon Aboud’s absolutely delightful film This Beautiful Fantastic (he both wrote and directed the film) Continue Reading
Pssst Alfred – over here! Yeah, there’s a new LEGO Batman trailer
SNAPSHOT In the irreverent spirit of fun that made The LEGO® Movie a worldwide phenomenon, the self-described leading man of that ensemble — LEGO Batman — stars in his own big-screen adventure: The LEGO® Batman Movie. But there are big changes brewing in Gotham, and if he wants to Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: True friendship cleans up in Dust Buddies
SNAPSHOT Dust Buddies is a story about the friendship between two dust bunnies, Fuzz and Lint, who live peacefully under a couch. When an evil maid comes to clean the house and sucks Fuzz into her vacuum, Lint must overcome his fears and set out to rescue his friend. Continue Reading
Ginger and Snapper find real humanity in the midst of the apocalypse
SNAPSHOT Ginger is a little girl living in the wake of a zombie apocalypse. While most of the planet has perished because they stuck to the cities, Ginger lives way out in the country and thus far hasn’t seen a single zombie. She also hasn’t seen a living person Continue Reading
Daria the sequel? College Humour hilariously speculates on what form this might take
If you were never one of the cool kids in the hell they call school – as you might be able to tell from oh-so-subtle swipe, I was never a member of the movers-and-shakers, an outcast who was bulled throughout – then it’s highly likely you’ll have an affinity Continue Reading
Moonlight and the struggle to be true to yourself
SNAPSHOT Moonlight is the tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality. Anchored by astonishing performances and the singular vision Continue Reading