You might recall that one of the many charms of Deadpool, of which there are many not the least Ryan Reynolds energetically mischievous ballsy performance as the eponymous hero, was his propensity to break the fourth walk with hilarious alacrity. That is he addressed the audience directly, in the Continue Reading
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It’s a clones world after all: Orphan Black season 4 photos
SNAPSHOT Sarah (played by the mercurial Tatiana Maslany) returns home from her Icelandic hideout to track down an elusive new ally tied to deceased clone Beth, whose identity Sarah stole in the series’ first episode. With the stakes higher than ever before, Sarah and her sestras band together to Continue Reading
Movie review: Blind Date (Un peu beaucoup aveuglément) #afff2016
You know the story. Girl moves into apartment. Guy in neighbouring apartment pretends to haunt her to scare her off. She wises up. A battle of wills ensues until true love blossoms but they don’t meet preferring to stay behind their respective walls and … wait, what? If you Continue Reading
It’s a Huge Great Bloody Movie Sweetie: Ab Fab the film debuts poster + trailer
SNAPSHOT ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: THE MOVIE reunites Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley as the iconic Edina and Patsy along with the rest of the original cast that includes Julia Sawalha as Saffy, Jane Horrocks as Bubble and June Whitfield as Mother. The award-winning team behind the camera includes Mandie Fletcher Continue Reading
Van Gogh springs gloriously to life in this stunningly colourful animation
It goes without saying that Vincent Van Gogh was a breathtakingly talented artist, a man who, despite his many afflictions, created some of the most stunningly beautiful, leap-off-the-canvas art the world has ever seen. You may not think you could improve on art that luminously entrancing, and truth be Continue Reading
“Do You Remember What This Feels Like?” Equals ponders a world without emotions
SNAPSHOT Equals takes place in a utopian society where violence and crime have been virtually eradicated – via the genetic elimination of human emotion. People like Nia (Kristen Stewart) and Silas (Nicholas Hoult) live calm, uneventful, drone-like lives. The two work alongside each other in a large office, creating Continue Reading
Movie review: The Very Private Life of Mister Sim (La Vie très privée de Monsieur Sim)
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
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