Movies

  If there’s one lesson we’ve learned from Pinocchio, the now Disney-fied protagonist of Italian writer Carlo Collodi’s classic 1883 novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, it’s that lying can quickly spin spectacularly, and irretrievably out of control. In Pinocchio’s case that wild spiralling away from any semblance of truth manifested Continue Reading

  There is a great deal to be said for setting the scene. After all, that well-worn adage about only getting one chance to make a first impression keeps getting repeated for a reason – people always remember and make judgements based on what they first see of a person, Continue Reading

  It might come as a surprise to many but even the wonderfully eccentric stable of characters from Aardman Animations, which includes the legendary Wallace and  Gromit, can suffer from the dreaded ennui of life. That enervating sense that we’ve been there, done that a thousand times already and that the novelty Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT This web series features Neil Patrick Harris who lives with his partner David Burtka. Neil sleeps a lot and has strange dreams featuring puppet characters. Neil opens each episode by directly telling the audience “Hi, I’m Neil. I sleep a lot and when I dream, I dream in Continue Reading

  While grandly romantic gestures like impossibly large bunches of flowers for no reason, a surprise marriage proposal at a beloved’s favourite bookstore and heart-stirring declarations of commitment on major anniversaries are usually what gets love all its fantastically positive PR, it’s what happens in the little moments, in the nitty-gritty of every Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organisation. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE. (official synopsis via Screenrant) I have an Continue Reading

  Love is a complicated emotion. On the one hand, it is everything the Bible says it is – patient, gentle, kind, protective, trusting, hopeful – and yet for all those unarguably positive characteristics, its outworking can also be angry, argumentative, regretful, mournful, frustrating. You see? Not an easy thing Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Ella, a beautiful woman tired of unwanted attention from men, strolls through a carnival while reading a book. A barker talks her into trying the bumper cars, but the result is a perilous accident that leaves Ella trapped. A stranger, the handsome and muscular Jake, rescues her, and Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Paper Towns is directed by Jake Schreier (Robot & Frank) with a script by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber (both of (500) Days of Summer and The Fault in Our Stars) When Margo Roth Spiegelman (Cara Delvingne) beckons Quentin Jacobsen (Nat Wolff) in the middle of the Continue Reading