Movies

  Ladies and gentlemen, this is how you begin an espionage action movie. Particularly one as gloriously over the top, in all the best possible ways, as Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, the latest instalment in the classic TV show-cum -movie franchise that literally shows no sign of slowing down anytime Continue Reading

  Let’s be honest. Not a lot of us pay attention to the necessarily ubiquitous safety videos that every airlines plays before takeoff. I am one of the very few who actually does it, figuring knowing how survive the “unlikely event of an aircraft crash” – see I have even memorised Continue Reading

  History, it has been often be observed, is written by the victors. Or at the very least, by those who manage to outlast everyone else around them. However, in the case of Tim Conigrave (Ryan Corr), the author of posthumously-published iconic memoir Holding the Man, now a deeply-moving film Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novella The Price of Salt, which tells the story of a lesbian romance in the ’50s written by Highsmith under the pseudonym Claire Morgan. The rather unprecedented homosexual love story–for the time in which it was written–follows the relationship between two very different Continue Reading

  It’s going to come as no surprise to anyone that the natural environment is being trashed at a frighteningly prodigious rate. And while pretty much everyone will agree Something Should Be Done, getting them to listen in detail to the issues at hand can be a challenge. Which is Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT The story picks up one year after the events of “Inside Out,” when a boy comes to Riley’s house to see her. That doesn’t sit well with her parents, who simply can’t figure out if their 12-year-old daughter is going on her first date. Her dad’s emotions quickly Continue Reading

  Every second year Disney holds a comic con of its very own making in Anaheim, a showcase for all its upcoming films and TV properties. Known as D23, billed as the annual Disney fan event, it provides a wealth of exclusive insights into all the creative magic the Mouse Continue Reading

    I have to be honest – I am a horror movie wimp. Recoiling generally at the ideas of vampires, mummies, zombies – there are some notable exceptions of course such as The Walking Dead – I prefer to avoid any kind of movie that gives these characters any Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Three-time Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep goes electric and takes on a whole new gig – a hard-rocking singer/guitarist – for Oscar®-winning director Jonathan Demme and Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody in the uplifting comedy Ricki and the Flash. In a film loaded with music and live performance, Continue Reading