Around about the time that the world marked The International Angela Lansbury Appreciation Day, a delightful video emerged of the multi-talented and endlessly effervescent Angela Lansbury performing the theme from Beauty and the Beast as its 25th anniversary screening. This gala event, whch also featured the actors who played Continue Reading
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Going ape s**t! An astronaut has a really Bad Day on Planet of the Apes
If you’re an ape or a monkey then life in a Planet of the Apes future is pretty sweet. Once mighty Homo Sapiens are now your primitive lapdogs and the Earth, ruined New York city and all, is yours, all yours. But then an astronaut or two crash into Continue Reading
“Life is a journey to be experienced” … Happy 90th birthday Winnie the Pooh!
It may hard to believe but Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne’s beloved creation who, along with other characters based on his son Christopher’s stuffed animals, resides in the quintessentially-English Hundred Acre Woods, is 90 today. Yes, 90 years old! Time flies when you’re eating a great many smackerels of Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Time to get On the Same Page
Opposites attract is one of the great maxims of romance. But what if it’s not so much opposites being attracted as one person finding in the other the spark that’s been missing from their own black-and-white life? That is quite delightfully the case in On the Same Page by Continue Reading
Life unintended: The dark regrets of Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals
SNAPSHOT From writer/director Tom Ford comes a haunting romantic thriller of shocking intimacy and gripping tension that explores the thin lines between love and cruelty, and revenge and redemption. Academy Award nominees Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star as a divorced couple discovering dark truths about each other and Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Concept artists reimagine Star Wars
There is seemingly no end to Star Wars ever-captivating universe. Not only is Disney announcing film after film for the franchise, with this year’s new entry in the cinematic canon, Rogue One, only a few short months from release, but artists continue to re-imagine their own distinctive visually-stunning takes on Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Les Spectateurs examines futuristic regret
No matter how glittering the dream or exciting the prospect, there comes a time when we must confront the loss of everything that we are leaving behind. This might not amount to much of an emotional wrench at all – we’re glad to be done with that period in Continue Reading
Movie review: Life, Animated
It was the poet John Donne who sagely and insightfully noted that “No man is an island entire of itself”, a nod to humanity’s shared, almost primal need for connection with others and the shared sense of meaning that results. There is no doubt he would see a thematic Continue Reading
From Toy Story you are – Rogue One: A Pixar Story
Mash-ups are all the rage in our digital postmodern age. So it makes perfect sense that someone would eventually merge together The Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer with some tasty Pixar scenes to create the kind of movie that I would see in a heartbeat. I mean, Continue Reading
Who are you really? Split examines life for one man with 23 personalities
SNAPSHOT While the mental divisions of those with dissociative identity disorder have long fascinated and eluded science, it is believed that some can also manifest unique physical attributes for each personality, a cognitive and physiological prism within a single being. Though Kevin (James McAvoy) has evidenced 23 personalities to Continue Reading