Movies

  When we first meet Chappie, one of a growing number of seemingly indestructible weaponised robots or “scouts” being rolled out to augment the flesh and blood police of crime-ridden Johannesburg, he is not leading what you might call a charmed existence. So unlucky is the hapless droid, who has Continue Reading

  I know it often feels like this is Bond, James Bond’s world and we’re all just living in it with rather less panache than he does (and nowhere near enough martinis, shaken, not stirred), but I have lately had the feeling, the Bond franchise’s renaissance under the dashing Daniel Continue Reading

  It’s hard to imagine that a colourfully individualistic member of an invasive technologically highly-advanced but socially-awkward alien race, who have just picked Earth as their new home (no, humanity, as usual, was not consulted), and a small girl sheltering with her cat in an unnamed city from said extra Continue Reading

  Who among us hasn’t ever wished that the characters on the big screen in front of us would leap into our comparatively less than magical lives and make them a little more exciting than the everyday reality we’re used to? We may have perfectly wonderful, functional, highly enjoyable but Continue Reading

  Sequels are not well loved creatures for the most part. Suffering from the law of diminishing returns, they are often Xerox copies of the much more memorable film that preceded them, riffing on the same ideas with the same characters and often same narrative devices, with nothing like the Continue Reading

  * WARNING: THERE IS NSFW VIOLENCE AND MILD SEXUAL CONTENT plus SPOILERS FROM FIRST FOUR SEASONS OF GAMES OF THRONES * Buckle up kids, this ain’t your grandmother’s The Princess Bride! Or is it? Perhaps The Princess Bride and Games of Thrones have far more in common that you might Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT A Single Life is an animated short film in which Pia finds a vinyl single. When playing the mysterious single, Pia is suddenly able to travel through her life. If she spins the record forward, she becomes older. If she skips backwards, she gets younger. (synopsis via Vimeo) Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT An extremely wealthy man (Ben Kingsley), dying from cancer, undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man (Ryan Reynolds). But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body’s origin and the Continue Reading

  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

  SNAPSHOT Directed by Brad Bird, “Tomorrowland” centers on a jaded scientist (George Clooney) who helps a bright teenager (Britt Robertson) travel to a high-tech wonderland somewhere in time and space. Their goal is nothing less than to “fix the future,” according to a grave-sounding Hugh Laurie, but the clock Continue Reading