SNAPSHOT In the 3D animated comedy, The Angry Birds Movie, we’ll finally find out why the birds are so angry. The movie takes us to an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds – or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red (Jason Sudeikis, We’re the Millers, Horrible Bosses), a Continue Reading
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Weekend pop art: Your most-loved pop culture characters unmasked!
If you’re like me, you’ve likely spent a great deal of time with your favourite pop culture characters, their presence enriching everything from lazy childhood Saturday mornings spent spread out on the couch watching cartoons to nostalgic adult nights spent wondering where your youth went … wait, is that Continue Reading
Never Stop Never Stopping: Popstar is an undeniably dope parody
SNAPSHOT Popstar “goes behind the scenes as singer/rapper Conner4Real faces a crisis of popularity after his sophomore album flops, leaving his fans, sycophants and rivals all wondering what to do when he’s no longer the dopest star of all. (synopsis via Paste Magazine) Mockumentaries can be a real joy. Continue Reading
Movie review: Zootopia
Some years ago, when Disney’s once-lustrous animation star had dimmed considerably, its glory days of Sleeping Beauty, Fantasia and Bambi well behind it, and uber-creative upstart Pixar nipping at its heels, you could have been forgiven for wondering if it would ever reclaim its place as one of the Continue Reading
Bookstores and libraries are wonderful places! Here’s the cinematic proof
In common with many people, bookstores and libraries are my happy places. I can wander through the shelves and stacks of bookstores particularly for hours on end, enthralled by one book after another, having to fight the urge (mostly successfully) to buy everything I see. It’s a glorious escape Continue Reading
We have been chosen! Sausage Party’s hilarious animated look at food fatalism
SNAPSHOT Sausage Party, the first R-rated CG animated movie, is about one sausage leading a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they become chosen to leave the grocery store. The film features the vocal talents of Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Imaginative flat lay movie posters of classic films
If only all movie posters were this gloriously imaginative. Manchester, England-based artist John Bolton has created the most wonderful posters of classic films like Amelie, The Royal Tennenbaums and Breakfast at Tiffany’s using objects he has faithfully made himself that evoke the spirit and style of these movies. The Continue Reading
Noisy Furniture: A horror movie of interior furnishings that go bump in the night
It’s happened to all of us. We’re lying in bed, drifting off to sleep when suddenly something creaks, or something clicks or something seem to rustle or move. Yep, it’s those good old things that go bump in the night. What could they be and will our house end Continue Reading
Movie review: 45 Years
One of the great joys of being in a long-term relationship is the comfort that comes from feeling you know everything about your partner. It’s highly likely you don’t since we all tend to keep things large and small from the people we love, no matter the level of Continue Reading
The higher you rise, the further you fall: The chilling world of High-Rise
SNAPSHOT A big screen adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s novel, High-Rise centers on a new residential tower built on the eve of Margaret Thatcher’s rise to power, at the site of what will soon become the world’s financial hub. Designed as a luxurious solution to the problems of the city, Continue Reading