Movies

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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