It’s easy to assume when you see two actors together such as, oh I don’t know, let’s say for argument’s sake, Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley, that they’ve always enjoyed brilliant on-screen chemistry and off-screen friendship. But in this delightful clip from The Graham Norton Show, promoting the new Continue Reading
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Movie review: Hunt For the Wilderpeople
The need to belong is a fairly basic human imperative; it informs our drive to make friends, join clubs, fall in love and be a part of a family, among many other things. And it is the beating heart and soul of quite possibly one of the most wonderful Continue Reading
Phantom Boy: A heartwarming tale of one boy and his big secret
SNAPSHOT Leo, 11, spends his days in bed in a New York hospital due to a serious illness. He discovers he has an extraordinary ability to separate from his body and fly over the city while his physical body sleeps. Along the way, the boy meets Alex, a detective Continue Reading
Superheroes arise! Trailers for Wonder Woman, Doctor Strange, Justice League #SDCC
We are drowning in superhero narratives at the moment (or is it that we’re drowning and the superheroes are coming to rescue us and …?). But that’s understandable. After all, they seize the imagination, takes on bold and imaginative journeys into ourselves, the human spirit, around the world and Continue Reading
Movie review: Jason Bourne
The tagline for Jason Bourne is the definitive yet poetic “You know his name”, an evocative phrase designed to speak to our familiarity with a character who, over the course of three genre-redefining films that caused among other Bond to play visual and narrative catch-up, we had come to know Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The slapstick hilarity of FUEL
If you’ve been alive for more than 5 minutes, you’ll know it doesn’t take long for things to go from bad to worse and beyond. Life is rampantly, crazily unpredictable and what might seem like a simple enough undertaking – in the case of FUEL, a delightful screwball short Continue Reading
Movie review: Maggie’s Plan
Life is a messy business. That would be a self-evident truth to most people but not to Maggie (Greta Gerwig), who, despite being highly intelligent and an accomplished professional whose job involves bringing together arts graduates and businesses, can’t quite come to grips with the fact that life doesn’t confirm to Continue Reading
New Batman LEGO movie trailer: Life doesn’t give you seatbelts! #SDCC
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
Movie review: Star Trek Beyond
Picturing the crew of the USS Enterprise sitting around bored out of their 23rd century skulls may not the first thing that springs to mind when you hear the words “To boldly go where no one has gone before” but if we are to believe Kirk (Chris Pine) at Continue Reading
Movie review: Ghostbusters
It is a rare moment indeed when considering the merits of a rebooted film in a much-loved franchise such as Ghostbusters than you can say with complete confidence and not a small amount of happiness that the re-imagined product is every bit a match for the original, if not in Continue Reading