If you’ve been alive for more than 5 minutes, you’ll know it doesn’t take long for things to go from bad to worse and beyond. Life is rampantly, crazily unpredictable and what might seem like a simple enough undertaking – in the case of FUEL, a delightful screwball short Continue Reading
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Movie review: Maggie’s Plan
Life is a messy business. That would be a self-evident truth to most people but not to Maggie (Greta Gerwig), who, despite being highly intelligent and an accomplished professional whose job involves bringing together arts graduates and businesses, can’t quite come to grips with the fact that life doesn’t confirm to Continue Reading
New Batman LEGO movie trailer: Life doesn’t give you seatbelts! #SDCC
SNAPSHOT In the irreverent spirit of fun that made The LEGO Movie a worldwide phenomenon, the self-described leading man of that ensemble – LEGO Batman – stars in his own big-screen adventure: The LEGO Batman Movie. But there are big changes brewing in Gotham, and if he wants to Continue Reading
Movie review: Star Trek Beyond
Picturing the crew of the USS Enterprise sitting around bored out of their 23rd century skulls may not the first thing that springs to mind when you hear the words “To boldly go where no one has gone before” but if we are to believe Kirk (Chris Pine) at Continue Reading
Movie review: Ghostbusters
It is a rare moment indeed when considering the merits of a rebooted film in a much-loved franchise such as Ghostbusters than you can say with complete confidence and not a small amount of happiness that the re-imagined product is every bit a match for the original, if not in Continue Reading
Marvellous mass of movie trailers: Quitters, I Am Not a Serial Killer, Five Nights in Maine, Table 19, A Monster Calls
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
A rebellion built on hope: Rogue One – A Star Wars Story (poster + trailer)
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
Movie review: Sing Street
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
The short and the short of it: Invisible’s poignant longing for connection
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
Lazy Eye: “Do you have any idea how long I searched for you, Alex?” (trailer)
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