Movies

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  SNAPSHOT Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of how plucky caveman Dug [Eddie Redmayne], along with sidekick Hognob, unites his tribe against the mighty Bronze Age in a battle to beat them at their own Continue Reading

  Doctor Strange, directed by Scott Derrickson, is proof positive that Marvel is capable of putting out more than one type of cookie-cutter superhero movie. Sure we’ve had Guardians of the Galaxy and Deadpool to reassure us that departing from the well-established, and granted highly successful, pattern that upholds the Continue Reading