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
Movies
Is there Life After Gravity? There is, and it’s beautifully shot
SNAPSHOT Life After Gravity, is a thriller on a global scale — intergalactic, really — about the blessings and poisons of extraordinary power, the many conflicts of its pursuit, and the birth of a new era for our civilization when we’re suddenly relieved of the trappings of gravity. (synopsis Continue Reading
Movie review: The Dressmaker
If revenge is a dish best served cold, then Myrtle “Tilly” Dunnage’s (Kate Winslet) arrival back in her small, dusty backwater hometown of Dungatar in 1951 after many years away in involuntary exile, heralds the mother of all frozen banquets. Not that this is immediately obvious in the opening Continue Reading
Twisted Cinema: iconic movie scenes and posters made of balloons
Rob Driscoll aka The Bowtie Balloon Guy is one very talented man. Not only is he a magician, entertainer and photographer but he is also able to twist balloons into fantastically engaging shapes like nobody’s business. His latest project makes brilliant use of his talents, with all manner of Continue Reading
So emotional: Deleted Inside Out clip shows more of Riley’s imaginary friends
We all had imaginary friends growing up. And then suddenly we didn’t as the years advanced and the characters that so filled our childhood years with delight, colour and wonder, were no longer needed, consigned to some soon-to-be-forgotten part of our memories that only the most sentimental of us Continue Reading
Great Scott! It’s Back to the Future day!
SNAPSHOT In this zany sequel, time-traveling duo Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) return from saving Marty’s future son from disaster, only to discover their own time transformed. In this nightmarish version of Hill Valley, Marty’s father has been murdered and Biff Tannen, Marty’s Continue Reading
Pixar makes history again: Sanjay’s Super Team
Quite apart from their exquisitely-rendered, emotionally-touching movies, Pixar has also shown itself adept at crafting memorable animated shorts that often say as much in 5 to 8 minutes as their longer brethren. Far from being the unwanted support act to the latest Pixar feature-length masterpiece, the shorts such as Continue Reading
Movie review: Learning to Drive
Modern life is so big, fast-paced and noisy that it’s easy to forget that the transformative experiences that define us, for good or ill, tend to take place unexpectedly in small, quiet, almost unnoticeable ways. It’s a lesson that two quite different people in New York City learn one Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The Peanuts gang channel their inner Indiana Jones characters
I have always thought there is nothing that the Peanuts gang cannot do. Flying Sopwith Camels in dog fights with the Red Baron, waiting all night in a pumpkin field for the Great Pumpkin to arrive, and god bless you Charlie Brown, chasing after The Little Red-Haired Girl, and Continue Reading
Kick some undead ass! The well-dressed trailer for Pride, Prejudice and Zombies
Purists, particularly those of the Austin persuasion, avert your unsullied eyes now! For the rest of us, who enjoy a jolly good mash-up of Jane Austen social commentary and some very zeitgeisty undead-ness, gaze upon the relatively all-new trailer – I held it over for Halloween itself; the trailer Continue Reading