Home Alone turns 25 today. I’ll step and let that sink in for a moment – right, all good? Yes, the Christopher Columbus-directed film about one 8 year old boy, Kevin McAllister (Macaulay Culkin) who is mistakenly left behind at home by his family on Christmas Eve when his Continue Reading
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Movie review: Spectre
When you sit down to watch a James Bond film , now up to its 24th instalment with the Sam Mendes-directed Spectre, there are a number of well-tested tropes that you expect to be presented and accounted for. Bombastically-large, awe-inspiring, edge-of-your-seat opening scene? Check. A pivotal scene set somewhere Continue Reading
Christmas comes early: Touching ad #TheManontheMoon reminds us everyone deserves some festive cheer
I ordinarily don’t feature ads, no matter how creative they are, on this site. But there’s something so delightfully cinematic and heartwarming about the annual Christmas ads released by British department store John Lewis, which have become quite the festive institution in their homeland, and now worldwide, that they’re Continue Reading
Popped Culture: Dan LuVisi’s gloriously twisted take on pop culture icons
SNAPSHOT POPPED CULTURE features 64 pages of Dan LuVisi’s bizarrely skewed takes on popular culture in one eye-popping book. Some of the images contain short stories, explaining the disturbing and/or sometimes thoughtful backstories behind the characters. The book also includes some amazing work from several guest artists: Chase Conley, Continue Reading
Opa! It’s time for My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2
SNAPSHOT Gold Circle Entertainment and HBO present the Playtone production of My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, written by Academy Award nominee Vardalos, who stars alongside the entire returning cast of favorites. The movie picks up with Toula and Ian struggling to find time for each other while managing Continue Reading
She just kept swimming: Finding Dory drops first trailer and poster
SNAPSHOT The movie will be mostly set at the California Marine Biology Institute, a huge complex of sea life rehabilitation and aquarium, where Dory was born and raised. We will get to meet new characters, like an octopus, sea lions, a beluga whale, among others. (synopsis by Pixar president Continue Reading
Movie review: Freeheld
One of the great catch cries of the campaign for marriage equality around the world has been that love is love, no matter what your sexual orientation may be. While that claim is fiercely disputed by some, the truth is that when human beings fall in love, they are Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Stop/Eject, a magical story of love most unusual
SNAPSHOT Stop/Eject is a magical and moving fantasy drama starring Georgina Sherrington (The Worst Witch) and directed by Neil Oseman, dubbed “The Spielberg of Hereford” by The Guardian. It premiered at Raindance in 2014, and in 2015 was long-listed for a Bafta and won the Best Drama Short award Continue Reading
“Demented” reading: Kids books get a pop culture makeover courtesy of Joey Spiotto
One of my wondrous parts of my childhood was sitting down with all my Little Golden Books and reading the afternoon away. There was something so enticing about the iconic book line, with its glittering gold spine and array of storytelling possibilities, that had me hooked from the word Continue Reading
A melting pot of marvel: New stills and cast info for Zootopia
SNAPSHOT The modern mammal metropolis of Zootropolis is a city like no other. Comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it’s a melting pot where animals from every environment live together—a place where no matter what you are, from the biggest elephant to the smallest Continue Reading