Movies

  You could well argue that a film as beautifully made and emotionally impacting as Finding Nemo doesn’t require a sequel; that it is perfectly complete in and of itself. That argument would likely stand until you see Finding Dory, Pixar’s latest animation masterpiece which takes the forgetful Pacific Regal Continue Reading

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

  SNAPSHOT Described as being a “star-crossed science fiction love story,” The Space Between Us follows two teens from different worlds. Gardner Elliot, the first human born on Mars, is secretly raised in an experimental colony after his astronaut mother dies during childbirth. Sixteen years later, Gardner begins an online Continue Reading

  Finding Dory is almost upon us folks. Yes good old Finding Dory which is … um … what was I saying? Oh yes … Finding Dory is almost upon us folks and … Goodness you could make Dory-like forgetful jokes all day couldn’t you? But guessing peoples’ sense of Continue Reading

  I have always loved and adored slapstick. Done well, and with a suitable every-gathering momentum in place,it can be a real joy to watch; not to mention a laughfest par excellence that builds in intensity to the point where your sides ache, bits of food go flying out of Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT From director Todd Solondz (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness), Wiener-Dog is a dark, starkly funny story of a single dog and the many different people she touches over her short lifetime. Man’s best friend starts out teaching a young boy some contorted life lessons before being taken in Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Star Trek Beyond, the highly-anticipated next installment in the globally popular Star Trek franchise, created by Gene Roddenberry and reintroduced by J.J. Abrams in 2009, returns with director Justin Lin (The Fast and the Furious franchise) at the helm of this epic voyage of the U.S.S. Enterprise and Continue Reading

  The loss of the novelty effect, that deliriously exciting sense of discovering something new and different, is the Achilles heels of any sequel. And it is a rare sequel indeed that manages to keep this spirit of newness alive while advancing the storyline in ways that honour the original Continue Reading

  Writer’s block is the worst. I can say that from bitter experience; many is the time that my muse, whoever or whatever it is, has deserted me and I have been left staring in growing frustration, and near panic – we writers are nothing if not melodramatic at times Continue Reading