Movies

  The novelty of watching a movie for the first time, particularly one you end up loving and adoring more than popcorn itself, never grows old. But alas watching those favourite movies most certainly does. It’s not that you don’t enjoy re-watching them – though in my world that’s  a Continue Reading

  The inherent ability of the ordinary to turn, without warning, into the extraordinary and take everything else along with it in a status quo-unsettling melee, sits at the centre of a great many stories, especially those in the fantasy and young adult genres. Inherent in these sorts of narratives is Continue Reading

  Even the best of us get jaded. It doesn’t matter how exciting our jobs are, or how emotionally-fulfilling our relationships might be, or whether we are engaged in the most altruistic of earthly pursuits, at one point or another ennui will dejectedly raise its seen-it-all head and wonder at Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Hidden Figures is the incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe)—brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into Continue Reading

  One reason I watch every sci-fi film I can get my figurative hands on is the chance they give you to escape into a world/s wholly and utterly different to your own. To create those immersive worlds, films depend heavily on visual effects (VFX) which are advancing at such Continue Reading

  There is a cruel perversity to watching someone you love dearly die. It doesn’t matter if it is sudden, or as is the case with Other People, slow and faltering, you are witness to one person losing their battle to keep death at bay even as life, as it Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped – and no one knows why. From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes Moana, a sweeping, CG-animated feature film about Continue Reading

  For most people, an every-other-weekend with their partly-shared custody kid would comprise a trip to the park, maybe a X-box game or two and perhaps even dinner out to somewhere fun and nutritionally suspect. But Walt is not most people and in Bob Nelson’s (Nebraska) latest excursion into the Continue Reading

  Death has a way of shaking the certainties of life, such as they are, down to their very foundations. Try as we might to keep things exactly as they were before the cold hand of dread mortality comes calling, the reality is that life up to that point is Continue Reading