Young Adult movies are intense but hey so is being a young adult – well as much as I can remember of it anyway – so that all makes sense. But it can be equally as intense watching a YA film as an adult – OK it’s patently not Continue Reading
Movies
Funny animals: Zootopia posters parody 2015’s biggest films
My my my but the makers of Zootopia, a film about a world in which animals are the civilised ones and live in a unique city dividd by climate zone rather than races, are having some fun, OK a whole lotta fun, marketing their film. Granted they’ve used many Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Therefore I Am
SNAPSHOT “A mysterious encounter between a man who claims to be from the future and the man that he claims is his former self. A surreal psychological thriller about loss and regret. All set within the framework of a time travel story that loosely operates in accordance to the Continue Reading
How To Be Single ponders why love doesn’t come with a guide
SNAPSHOT There’s a right way to be single, a wrong way to be single, and then…there’s Alice. And Robin. Lucy. Meg. Tom. David. New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, be it a love connection, a hook-up, or something in the middle. And somewhere Continue Reading
Movie review: The Good Dinosaur
Being the curious creatures that we are, humanity has always loved a good “What if?” scenario. It has fuelled the ragingly successful genre of alternate history, one that Pixar has now joined with gusto and its trademark insight into the “human” condition and emotional nuance. Far from being the Continue Reading
A Monster Calls: If no one sees you, are you really there at all?
SNAPSHOT A Monster Calls is the story of Conor, a boy who faces the challenge of a very ill mother, school bullies and the isolation, or “Invisibility” the situation creates. In the vein of Where The Wild Things Are, Conor escapes into the world of fantasy and imagination, conjuring Continue Reading
Bring on the anti-hero! Deadpool debuts two new trailers
SNAPSHOT Based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a Continue Reading
On holidays in space … wish you were here: iambit’s Postcards From Space take you out of this world
Ah space, the final vacation frontier. Who wouldn’t want to get away to all those wide open spaces, those endless starlit nights, those plants teeming with fun and adventure. (For the purposes of this giddily happy intergalactic holiday post, let’s pretend that things like Alien xenomorphs and Imperial Stromtroopers aren’t Continue Reading
Re-heating the popcorn: The 10 movies I loved most in 2015
I really should live in a cinema. One also equipped with wall-to-wall bookcases, a Sonos sound system and a TV that broadcasts cable, free-to-air and streaming services, but a cinema nonetheless. Not because of my ever-growing popcorn and choc top addiction – this is probably not the place to discuss Continue Reading
Merry pop culture Christmas to all … and to all a good movie-watching, TV-bingeing, music-listening, book-reading night
It’s Christmas time again and that means, as you well know, that it’s some time for festive pop culture fun. Actually, pop culture fun is a year round things and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for sticking around and reading the many posts hat have Continue Reading