Movies

  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

  SNAPSHOT Set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals, Sing stars Buster Moon (Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey), a dapper Koala who presides over a once-grand theater that has fallen on hard times. Buster is an eternal optimist—okay, maybe a bit of a scoundrel—who loves his Continue Reading

  Try as we might to close the gap, the chasm between what we want from our life and what we actually get can be intimidatingly, and sometimes, distressingly, broad. For Laney Brooks (Sarah Silverman in a nuanced, wholly effecting performance) this gap is now so large that the only Continue Reading

  As reputations go, the one possessed by Time, who in director James Bobin’s Alice Through the Looking Glass is a piercingly-blue-eyed clock man played by Sacha Baron Cohen, is certainly one of the less enviable. He is variously cast as a villain and a thief, a purloiner of life Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT “The film revolves around best friends who are inseparable members of a well-regarded NYC improv troupe. But after two of them audition for a coveted spot on a hit TV show and only one of them lands it, the tight-knit group of friends and collaborators is thrown into Continue Reading

  The 1970s are a ripe period for comic writers – outlandish clothes, supersized politics, society-shaking trends, the overflow of free love and liberal values from the unconstrained ’60s, and the list goes on. Which is possibly partly why writer/director Shane Black (who co-wrote the screenplay with Anthony Bagarozzi) decided Continue Reading