Movies

  So many movies, so little time. Short of camping out in the movie theatre for weeks at a time, a fun idea that unfortunately comes with some real hygiene and livability issues, you need to take a good hard look at trailers for upcoming movies and work out which Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT “Following the foundation of the Galactic Empire, a wayward band of Rebel fighters come together to carry out a desperate mission: to steal the plans for the Death Star before it can be used to enforce the Emperor’s rule.” (synopsis via Monkeys Fighting Robots) Pity the poor prequel, Continue Reading

  Love and music have long enjoyed a close and fruitful association with the former supplying the latter with everything from lyrical inspiration to the sort of luminous romanticism that has joined together countless musicians and their fans over millenia. This nexus is on full display in 1980s-set Sing Street, John Continue Reading

  Love sweet adorable love. Well the idea of love sweet adorable love anyway. That’s the adorable premise behind this beautifully-realised short film from Michael Trikosko and Andrew Wilson which tells the story of an adorably shy young male lizard at a high school dance who desperately wants to dance Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Tim Kirkman’s “Lazy Eye” follows Dean (Lucas Near-Verbrugghe), a graphic artist living in Los Angeles who receives an email from Alex (Aaron Costa Ganis), an old flame he hasn’t seen or heard from in 15 years. The two of them meet up at a vacation home in the Continue Reading

  Ah the best laid plans of mice and gay men. What could be better than announcing to your respective families at a joint Christmas Eve dinner, which the first time either side has set eyes on the other, than you are expecting a child? Quite a bit as it Continue Reading

  You may think to yourself as you await the arrival of Paul Feig’s reimagined take on Ghostbusters (which hits cinemas this week), which frankly looks exceedingly hilarious, that what would fill in the spot would be a Ghostbusters/Star Wars mash-up. No? Well you should be thinking that because as Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls is an irreverent comedy extravaganza with incredible music! From the genius creators of Shrek, Trolls stars Anna Kendrick as Poppy, the optimistic leader of the Trolls, and her polar opposite, Branch, played by Justin Timberlake. Together, this unlikely pair of Trolls must embark on an Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Tallulah, the Netflix original film, was written and directed by Sian Heder (Orange is the New Black), and tells the story of young vagabond, Lu (Ellen Page – Whip It, Inception), who lives in a van and is fiercely independent in her hand-to-mouth existence. When a chance encounter Continue Reading