Mr Sim (“like the card”), the titular protagonist of The Very Private Life of Mister Sim (La Vie très privée de Monsieur Sim), is a talkative man. It doesn’t matter who you are – a disinterested businessman in premium economy on a flight, a stranger in a roadside diner, a woman recording Continue Reading
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And that’s a (sudden) wrap! What if movies ended when a character uttered the title?
Chris Huebs has found a perfect, and highly-amusing way to cut down on the time it takes to watch a movie. He’s put together a supercut of movies where the characters utter the title of the film – a more common occurrence than you might realise – and ended the movies Continue Reading
Wait, where did we leave her? Oh yeah … Finding Dory finds a trailer
SNAPSHOT Disney•Pixar’s Finding Dory reunites everyone’s favorite forgetful blue tang, Dory, with her friends Nemo and Marlin on a search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale? Directed by Andrew Stanton and produced by Lindsey Continue Reading
Singing and cracking jokes on Mars? When The Martian is a musical comedy, you bet you can
You have to admit, for sheer comedy value alone, that nothing beats watching someone, say Matt Damon as astronaut Mark Watney, being left alone on an inhospitable planet – guess which one? – and having to battle for survival against terrifyingly destructive odds to make it back home. I Continue Reading
The steampunk wonder of April and Her Extraordinary World (Avril and le monde, truque)
SNAPSHOT The plot of the film is the kind of slightly revisionist history that makes the mind tingle with delight. In this world, based on the world of graphic novelist Jacques Tardi, everything changed when Napoleon Bonaparte was killed before he became a famous world leader. His demise started Continue Reading
Movie review: The Lady in the Van
If you’ve ever been tempted to judge someone based on their appearance or current circumstance, The Lady in the Van is an instructive lesson on the pitfalls of such a judgement approach. Based on the true story of British playwright Alan Bennett’s (Alex Jennings) fractious friendship with van-dwelling homeless woman Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The deeply-moving bonds of Changing Batteries
What makes life truly worth living are the people who journey through it with us. Sure we might have interests we love to pursue, places we like to be, and TV programs we love to watch but when all is said and done, what makes all those things and Continue Reading
Movie review: How To Be Single
Romantic comedies, in common with just about every genre of movie in existence, loves its tropes. As sure as a spectacularly reunion will follow a hackneyed misunderstanding, rom-coms, as they’re affectionately known (or not so affectionately depending on your point of view) regularly give us the lovelorn soul who Continue Reading
Movie review: Hail, Caesar! #StGeorgeOpenAir
Anyone who has seen Trumbo, the brilliantly-executed story of one wisecracking screenwriter’s attempt to defy the prohibitions of the McCarthyist era in America, will agree that there is precious little to laugh about when it comes to draconian moralising and coercive, chest-thumping patriotism on a nationwide scale. But that Continue Reading
Alice Through the Looking Glass: Time is ticking away (new trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT In Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass, an all-new spectacular adventure featuring the unforgettable characters from Lewis Carroll’s beloved stories, Alice returns to the whimsical world of Underland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter. Directed by James Bobin, who brings his own unique vision Continue Reading