You’d think that zombies wandering the streets, all looking to devour your flesh in the most primal ways possible, would be a hard thing to miss. But Shaun (Simon Pegg), the eponymous protagonist of 2004’s horror comedy Shaun of the Dead, manages it, not just once but repeatedly. It Continue Reading
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Movie review: The Confirmation
For most people, an every-other-weekend with their partly-shared custody kid would comprise a trip to the park, maybe a X-box game or two and perhaps even dinner out to somewhere fun and nutritionally suspect. But Walt is not most people and in Bob Nelson’s (Nebraska) latest excursion into the Continue Reading
Movie review: Captain Fantastic
Death has a way of shaking the certainties of life, such as they are, down to their very foundations. Try as we might to keep things exactly as they were before the cold hand of dread mortality comes calling, the reality is that life up to that point is Continue Reading
Sad face! Happy face! Hmm … Finding Dory told through emojis
Finding Dory is one of the standout hits of a packed animated feature film slate this year. A sequel to 2003’s Finding Nemo that was as fresh, sweet and heartfelt as its predecessor, Finding Dory is an absolute joy to watch as I remarked in my review of the film: Continue Reading
Happy 50th birthday Star Trek! Love, Frasier and a whole lot of talented artists
Has it been 50 years already? Surely it was just yesterday that we boldly went where no man has gone before, unleashed a whole lot of trouble with Tribbles, and stood gazing from the City on the Edge of Forever? And yet here we are, not fifty years later Continue Reading
Movie review: The Secret Life of Pets
Anyone who’s ever owned a pet will have thought at one time or another that their beloved cat, dog, hamster or lizard, like the playthings in Toy Story, has another life beyond the one we are privileged to witness. Once we walk out the door, we muse, Fifi the Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: What if the crew of the Firefly returned to Earth?
My love for Firefly is damn near legendary. (OK it’s not but that makes for a dramatic opening sentence and so shall it stay.) I love the show beyond words, as well the constant tributes paid to it by fervent dedicated fellow Browncoats such as Joey Spiotto who has Continue Reading
Movie review: Kubo and the Two Strings
If you must blink … do it now American-based production house Laika has firmly established itself over the course of the last seven years and four luminously good feature films such as Coraline and The Boxtrolls, as a master storyteller of the highest order. Their gift for enchanting films Continue Reading
What’s up Doc?! The origins of Bugs Bunny that’s what!
SNAPSHOT He doesn’t seem like a character from the nineteen forties. His anarchic gender-bending wiseass personality is pretty progressive even by today’s standards and he’s aged so well because he isn’t locked in any one specific pool of relatability. Something like the Flintstones can be revived again and again Continue Reading
Movie review: Truman
Losing someone to death is a harrowing experience by any estimation. So harrowing in fact that Tomás (Javier Cámara), married and living in Canada, and one of the central characters in director Cesc Gay’s Truman, has strenuously resisted visiting his terminally-ailing actor best friend Julián (Ricardo Darín) in Madrid Continue Reading