Movies

  SNAPSHOT Leo, 11, spends his days in bed in a New York hospital due to a serious illness. He discovers he has an extraordinary ability to separate from his body and fly over the city while his physical body sleeps. Along the way, the boy meets Alex, a detective Continue Reading

  We are drowning in superhero narratives at the moment (or is it that we’re drowning and the superheroes are coming to rescue us and …?). But that’s understandable. After all, they seize the imagination, takes on bold and imaginative journeys into ourselves, the human spirit, around the world and Continue Reading

  The tagline for Jason Bourne is the definitive yet poetic “You know his name”, an evocative phrase designed to speak to our familiarity with a character who, over the course of three genre-redefining films that caused among other Bond to play visual and narrative catch-up, we had come to know Continue Reading

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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