Movies

  Life can change in the blink of an eye. That this all-too-knowing sage observation of the business of living is made at the start of Mustang, written (with Alice Winocour) and directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven isn’t necessarily a surprise; what does surprise is how all the wistfulness and longing implicit in Continue Reading

  With Independence Day: Resurgence currently in theatres – it is by the way not the extraterrestrial mess some critics would have you believe – it’s a timely thing indeed that Jeff Goldblum and Mashable have joined forces for the ultimate in bedtime reading sessions for kids. Yes sirree, big Continue Reading

  So it’s the end of the world – like the actual asteroid about to crush New York City end of the world (no zombies or viral plague thank goodness) – and life hangs in the balance, with only your teddy bear and some peanut brittle to provide any form Continue Reading

  Good lord but Earth continues to be popular with the invading aliens crowd doesn’t it? And it’s not like they just visit the one time; in Independence Day: Resurgence, Roland Emmerich’s bigger-than-galactic-Ben-Hur follow-up to 1996’s Independence Day everyone’s favourite hive mind aliens are back and this time they’ve bought Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT The near future; humanity has been all but destroyed by a mutated fungal disease that eradicates free will and turns its victims into flesh-eating “hungries”. Only a small group of children seem immune to its effects. At an army base in rural England, this group of unique children Continue Reading

  Styled as a spiritual successor to Linklater’s 1993 ode to the dying days of high school Dazed and Confused, Everybody Wants Some!! concentrates on another transitional period in many peoples’ lives – the move to college/university when everything seems possible but you wonder if you’ll be able to make Continue Reading

  Word to the wise people – if the grassy idyllic valley in which you live is threatened by an advancing mass of black mud, one which at times takes humanoid shape, you should make sure you have a giant flying flamingo at hand and some plant magic with which Continue Reading

  In this age of movie blockbusters, megaphone-loud social media outbursts and viral demagoguery, we have become accustomed to heroes, revolutionaries and agents of real and lasting change as being swashbucklingly larger than life. After all, anyone who is capable of accomplishing any kind of societal transformation must be someone Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for global internet giant Cornerstore.com. Junior, the company’s top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable and wholly unauthorized baby girl. Desperate to deliver this Continue Reading