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
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Watch this you must: Star Wars The Force Awakens VFX reel is AMAZING
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
Movie review: Other People
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
Great danger is looming: Moana and the eternal needs for heroes and demi-gods
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
How could you miss the zombie apocalypse AND Rick and Morty? Shaun of the Dead manages to hilariously do both
You’d think that zombies wandering the streets, all looking to devour your flesh in the most primal ways possible, would be a hard thing to miss. But Shaun (Simon Pegg), the eponymous protagonist of 2004’s horror comedy Shaun of the Dead, manages it, not just once but repeatedly. It Continue Reading
Movie review: The Confirmation
For most people, an every-other-weekend with their partly-shared custody kid would comprise a trip to the park, maybe a X-box game or two and perhaps even dinner out to somewhere fun and nutritionally suspect. But Walt is not most people and in Bob Nelson’s (Nebraska) latest excursion into the Continue Reading
Movie review: Captain Fantastic
Death has a way of shaking the certainties of life, such as they are, down to their very foundations. Try as we might to keep things exactly as they were before the cold hand of dread mortality comes calling, the reality is that life up to that point is Continue Reading
Sad face! Happy face! Hmm … Finding Dory told through emojis
Finding Dory is one of the standout hits of a packed animated feature film slate this year. A sequel to 2003’s Finding Nemo that was as fresh, sweet and heartfelt as its predecessor, Finding Dory is an absolute joy to watch as I remarked in my review of the film: Continue Reading
Happy 50th birthday Star Trek! Love, Frasier and a whole lot of talented artists
Has it been 50 years already? Surely it was just yesterday that we boldly went where no man has gone before, unleashed a whole lot of trouble with Tribbles, and stood gazing from the City on the Edge of Forever? And yet here we are, not fifty years later Continue Reading
Movie review: The Secret Life of Pets
Anyone who’s ever owned a pet will have thought at one time or another that their beloved cat, dog, hamster or lizard, like the playthings in Toy Story, has another life beyond the one we are privileged to witness. Once we walk out the door, we muse, Fifi the Continue Reading