Movies

  Mash-ups are all the rage in our digital postmodern age. So it makes perfect sense that someone would eventually merge together The Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer with some tasty Pixar scenes to create the kind of movie that I would see in a heartbeat. I mean, Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT While the mental divisions of those with dissociative identity disorder have long fascinated and eluded science, it is believed that some can also manifest unique physical attributes for each personality, a cognitive and physiological prism within a single being. Though Kevin (James McAvoy) has evidenced 23 personalities to Continue Reading

  The novelty of watching a movie for the first time, particularly one you end up loving and adoring more than popcorn itself, never grows old. But alas watching those favourite movies most certainly does. It’s not that you don’t enjoy re-watching them – though in my world that’s  a Continue Reading

  The inherent ability of the ordinary to turn, without warning, into the extraordinary and take everything else along with it in a status quo-unsettling melee, sits at the centre of a great many stories, especially those in the fantasy and young adult genres. Inherent in these sorts of narratives is Continue Reading

  Even the best of us get jaded. It doesn’t matter how exciting our jobs are, or how emotionally-fulfilling our relationships might be, or whether we are engaged in the most altruistic of earthly pursuits, at one point or another ennui will dejectedly raise its seen-it-all head and wonder at Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Hidden Figures is the incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe)—brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into Continue Reading

  One reason I watch every sci-fi film I can get my figurative hands on is the chance they give you to escape into a world/s wholly and utterly different to your own. To create those immersive worlds, films depend heavily on visual effects (VFX) which are advancing at such Continue Reading

  There is a cruel perversity to watching someone you love dearly die. It doesn’t matter if it is sudden, or as is the case with Other People, slow and faltering, you are witness to one person losing their battle to keep death at bay even as life, as it Continue Reading

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