Unless you are stuck on a rock, or under it, floating somewhere in the far reaches of the galaxy, you’d have no doubt heard there’s a new Star Wars movie in the offing. Oh hell, I’m sure that even in the remotest parts of the Outer Rim Territories moviegoers Continue Reading
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Tumbling every which way in Alice Through the Looking Glass (teaser trailers)
SNAPSHOT Mia Wasikowska is joined by Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, as well as franchise newbies Rhys Ifans as the Mad Hatter’s father and Sacha Baron Cohen as Time. Tim Burton returns in a Continue Reading
65 years Charlie Brown! New extended trailer for The Peanuts Movie covers a lot of ground
SNAPSHOT Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the rest of the beloved “Peanuts” gang make their big-screen debut, like they’ve never been seen before, in state of the art 3D animation. Charlie Brown, the world’s most beloved underdog, embarks upon an epic and heroic quest, while his best pal, Continue Reading
All the feels and then some: UP in real life
It’s rare indeed that life is anywhere near as wonderful as that which people imagine when they create their art. That’s not to say that life is unremittingly awful; simply that it rarely is as perfectly realised as that which we conjure up. But in the case of the Continue Reading
Halloween weekend pop art: 7 stunning monster posters from Universal
If you were out on a dark and stormy night, the last creatures you want to run into would be the likes of Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, The Bride of Frankenstein, Frankenstein, The Creature From the Black Lagoon and The Invisible Man. They are pretty argue down Continue Reading
Halloween movie review: Crimson Peak
It is impossible to watch Guillermo del Toro’s latest gothic horror masterpiece, Crimson Peak, without wondering if there is more to be feared from the living than the dead. It is a question that Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska), would have more cause to muse on than most, after her Continue Reading
Halloween short: Dream a little dream of Freddy Krueger
OK so here’s two things you don’t usually see together – Freddy Krueger from the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and 1931 song “Dream a Little Dream of Me”, recorded by among many others Mama Cass Elliot of The Mamas and the Papas. But in this highly entertaining Continue Reading
Movie review: Mistress America
People, by and large, are not a terribly self-aware bunch. Sure they know what do they and don’t like in broad, abstract terms – chocolate vs. vanilla ice cream, beach holiday vs. the snow – and even on some deeper existential questions, but in general, many of us are Continue Reading
Talent that will not be denied: Trumbo defies censorship in new trailer
SNAPSHOT The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs. TRUMBO (directed by Jay Roach) tells the story of his fight against the U.S. government and studio bosses in a war Continue Reading
Think you know everything about Canada eh? Doco Being Canadian may make you reconsider
Stereotypes are funny things. Sure they allow pretty much everyone to get a handle on an issue, a person or an entire nation in record time, and yes, there are some elements of truth to them, but by and large, they’re not really all that accurate, and hence, not Continue Reading