We all know life can be a messy, complicated business. But knowing that about life, and actually having having it get all messy and complicated, with no real warning, are two completely differently things as graphic novelist and would-be published author Will Henry (Germaine Clement, Flight of the Conchords) discovers in Continue Reading
Movies
The world is ending AGAIN in Dawn of the Planet of the Zombies and the Giant Killer Plants on Some Serious Acid
Cancel all your plans people! The world is ending and this time it’s at the hands of zombies and giant helicopter-felling killer plants who don’t seem inclined to share the planet with those of us still living and non-botanical in nature. It’s all been brilliantly documented in this hilariously Continue Reading
Zootopia teaser trailer: Like nothing you’ve seen be-fur
SNAPSHOT The modern mammal metropolis of Zootopia is a city like no other. Comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it’s a melting pot where animals from every environment live together—a place where no matter what you are, from the biggest elephant to the smallest Continue Reading
You can help but be touched by the story of Ricky & Doris: An Unconventional Friendship in New York City. With Puppets
SNAPSHOT Ricky Syers is an off-beat 50 year old street performer who found his calling as a puppeteer after a lifetime of manual labor. While performing in New York City’s Washington Square Park, he met Doris Diether, an 86 year old community activist. They became friends and he made Continue Reading
Bring Him Home: Matt Damon fights for survival in The Martian (poster + trailers)
SNAPSHOT During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, Continue Reading
Movie review: Jurassic World
Ladies and gentleman please stand and welcome the return of the Satisfying Blockbuster, back on our screens after quite a while lost in the creative wilderness of Hollywood. Lest you think that too extravagant a way to introduce the latest instalment in the Jurassic Park trilogy, the Colin Trevorrow-directed Jurassic Continue Reading
Movie review: Hill of Freedom (Jayuui Eondeok) #sff2015
A very wise, enduringly articulate man by the name of William Shakespeare once observed that “the true course of love never did run smooth”. Given he took in his last breath some 400 years ago, it’s highly doubtful he had Hill of Freedom, noted Korean director Hong Sang-soo’s 16th feature film Continue Reading
Hand-drawn wonder: The magical animation of Klaus by Sergio Pablos
I have always been the sort of person who happily moves with the times. iPod instead of a Discman and an unwieldy stack of CDs? Why sure. Skyping instead of dealing with crackly international phone lines? Yes please! All my news conveniently delivered by Twitter instead of inky newspapers and Continue Reading
“She does everything and nothing”: The possibly glam life of Mistress America (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT In MISTRESS AMERICA, Tracy (Lola Kirke) is a lonely college freshman in New York, having neither the exciting university experience nor the glamorous metropolitan lifestyle she envisioned. But when she is taken in by her soon-to-be stepsister, Brooke (Greta Gerwig) – a resident of Times Square and adventurous Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Mourning in beautiful black and white with Hikari Toriumi’s Koishi
SNAPSHOT “A boy overcomes the loss of his father through the encounter with the spirits of ancestor. The title is a Japanese pun, ‘KOI’ being the kind of fish used for the flag designs and ‘KOISHI (こいし)’ meaning ‘I miss you’.” Grief, as so many of us regrettably know from Continue Reading