Movies

  SNAPSHOT The year is 2033, and mankind’s first manned mission to Mars is about to become reality. This is the story of how we make Mars home, told by the pioneers making it possible. (synopsis via YouTube) There are a lot of people trying to get to Mars at Continue Reading

  I am not usually a fan of promoting brand campaigns since creative though they might be, they are still, in the end, an ad designed to sell product. But there is something about this ad for Chipotle, which frankly could use all the help it can get in the Continue Reading

  Generally when you bring two things you like together the result is usually quite wonderful. Peanut butter and honey (or jelly if you’re American). Wine and Friday nights. Lorelai and Rory Gilmore. Buses and Hollywood stars. Wait what? Well think about it, we like buses. They us places we Continue Reading

  Prepare to see your kitchen as a killing field, the supermarket as a place of crushed and broken dreams and takeaway pizza as an exercise in violent dismemberment. For Sausage Party, Seth Rogen’s gloriously foulmouthed, absolutely hilarious tale of relgiously-devoted sentient food that discover their faith may have more Continue Reading

  SPLATT! SPLOSH! BIFF! Holy past and present colliding Batman! Let’s face it – if you grew up in the ‘60s or ‘70s, the odds of watching some pretty quirky TV programs were pretty high. And so it was that as young boy growing in the 1970s one of the Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Directed by Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Sicario), the film is based on Ted Chiang’s 1998 novella Story of Your Life with a script with Eric Heisserer (The Thing (2011)). When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team – lead by expert linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) Continue Reading

  We all want to belong somewhere, and preferably, with someone. But life is not always that kind or generous, leaving people like Tallulah aka “Lu” (Ellen Page), abandoned at age 6 by a mother to a life spent scrabbling on the margins of society, adrift and alone. The eponymous Continue Reading

  Star Trek Beyond, as the name implies, is a film where much of the action takes place in exotic locales far beyond our own solar system with a multi-layered ultra-modernistic space station that defies gravity and hangs together like a space-bound Escher painting and a rocky, arid planet where Continue Reading

  It’s easy to forget when you’re watching the plethora of Jane Austen adaptations in existence, and they are legion and growing like topsy by the second, that the author of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility was a woman of fierce intelligence, rapier wit and keen satirical inclination. In Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Sausage Party is a raunchy animated movie about one sausage’s quest to discover the truth about his existence. After falling out of a shopping cart, our hero sausage and his new friends embark on a perilous journey through the supermarket to get back to their aisles before the Continue Reading