SNAPSHOT Set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals, Sing stars Buster Moon (Academy Award® winner Matthew McConaughey), a dapper Koala who presides over a once-grand theater that has fallen on hard times. Buster is an eternal optimist—okay, maybe a bit of a scoundrel—who loves his Continue Reading
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Weekend pop art: Finding Dory hides away in colourful new posters
SNAPSHOT “Finding Dory” reunites Dory with 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? (synopsis via Coming Soon) Everyone’s favourite forgetful Pacific Regal Blue Tang has a fine case of Continue Reading
Movie review: Deadpool
It’s a rare thing indeed for the often creatively-moribund studios of the Hollywood system to set aside a formula that works and allow the production team of a film to not simply think outside of the box but bust it wide open until only gaping wreckage remains. But that’s exactly what Continue Reading
Movie review: Carol
As anyone who has ever had to conceal their true sexual identity will tell you, the effects of this societal-induced subterfuge can be debilitating. Forced to play a role for which you are often ill-suited simply by virtue of the way you were born, many LGBTQI people find themselves Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The moving lessons of The Present
SNAPSHOT The short tells the story of a boy who rather spends his time indoors playing videogames instead of discovering whats waiting in front of the door. One day his Mum decides to get a little surprise for his son, which makes it hard for him to concentrate on Continue Reading
You know his name: New Jason Bourne trailer makes its presence felt
SNAPSHOT Matt Damon returns to his most iconic role in Jason Bourne. Paul Greengrass, the director of The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, once again joins Damon for the next chapter of Universal Pictures’ Bourne franchise, which finds the CIA’s most lethal former operative drawn out of the Continue Reading
Movie review: Trumbo
It is a curious quirk of the human condition that passionate devotion to an ideal can so often become fundamentalist zealotry that ultimately ends up trampling across the very belief system it is meant to uphold and protect. It has happened time and again throughout history but perhaps one of Continue Reading
You need the bare necessities of life! Jungle Book debuts new poster and trailer
SNAPSHOT The Jungle Book is directed by Jon Favreau (Iron Man, Cowboys & Aliens, Elf, Zathura, Made) and written by Justin Marks (Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li), based on Rudyard Kipling’s classic book of the same name. The film follows a young boy named Mowgli, a man-cub raised Continue Reading
If only all the Oscar Best Picture nominated films starred Winnie the Pooh! Oh wait now they do
If you have ever wished that someone would give movies nominated for an Academy Award a delightfully Winnie the Pooh twist, then you’re in luck. Polish film blogger David Adamek has taken up an idea first proposed by Twitter user @dilsexia aka Daniel to give movies caught in Oscars orbit this Continue Reading
Movie review: The Danish Girl
A sense of identity is intrinsic to what it means to be human. But all too often our ability to express that in an authentic and meaningful way is subverted or denied, falling victim to societal demands that we behave a certain way in order to meet traditional or Continue Reading