Love and music have long enjoyed a close and fruitful association with the former supplying the latter with everything from lyrical inspiration to the sort of luminous romanticism that has joined together countless musicians and their fans over millenia. This nexus is on full display in 1980s-set Sing Street, John Continue Reading
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The short and the short of it: Invisible’s poignant longing for connection
Love sweet adorable love. Well the idea of love sweet adorable love anyway. That’s the adorable premise behind this beautifully-realised short film from Michael Trikosko and Andrew Wilson which tells the story of an adorably shy young male lizard at a high school dance who desperately wants to dance Continue Reading
Lazy Eye: “Do you have any idea how long I searched for you, Alex?” (trailer)
SNAPSHOT Tim Kirkman’s “Lazy Eye” follows Dean (Lucas Near-Verbrugghe), a graphic artist living in Los Angeles who receives an email from Alex (Aaron Costa Ganis), an old flame he hasn’t seen or heard from in 15 years. The two of them meet up at a vacation home in the Continue Reading
Movie review: A Holy Mess #ScandiFFAu
Ah the best laid plans of mice and gay men. What could be better than announcing to your respective families at a joint Christmas Eve dinner, which the first time either side has set eyes on the other, than you are expecting a child? Quite a bit as it Continue Reading
May the proton-blasting Force be with you! Ghostbusters meets Luke Skywalker
You may think to yourself as you await the arrival of Paul Feig’s reimagined take on Ghostbusters (which hits cinemas this week), which frankly looks exceedingly hilarious, that what would fill in the spot would be a Ghostbusters/Star Wars mash-up. No? Well you should be thinking that because as Continue Reading
Get ready to scrapbook your way to freedom with the bright, colourful, fun Trolls
SNAPSHOT DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls is an irreverent comedy extravaganza with incredible music! From the genius creators of Shrek, Trolls stars Anna Kendrick as Poppy, the optimistic leader of the Trolls, and her polar opposite, Branch, played by Justin Timberlake. Together, this unlikely pair of Trolls must embark on an Continue Reading
This is your family: Tallulah reminds us what’s important
SNAPSHOT Tallulah, the Netflix original film, was written and directed by Sian Heder (Orange is the New Black), and tells the story of young vagabond, Lu (Ellen Page – Whip It, Inception), who lives in a van and is fiercely independent in her hand-to-mouth existence. When a chance encounter Continue Reading
As the series ends, we’re still Looking (the Movie) for love and friendship
SNAPSHOT After living in Denver for nearly a year, Patrick returns to San Francisco for the first time to celebrate the wedding of old friends. In the process, he must face the unresolved relationships he left behind and make difficult choices about what’s truly important to him. Starring Jonathan Continue Reading
Movie review: Mustang
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
Independence Day for kids: Who’s that at the door? It’s aliens
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