Movies

  There are classic films beloved by millions, lionised by critics the world over, films that have come to define cinema as we know it … And then there is Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf, the latest in the ridiculously popular Sharktopus franchise – it follows Sharktopus (2010) and Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda Continue Reading

  A perennial complaint by readers of a beloved book brought to the big screen is that “The movie is nothing like the book!” And while by necessity that is always going to be the case, some books make the transition to the big screen in far better shape than Continue Reading

  It’s entirely possible when you were in the movie theatre watching Avengers: Age of Ultron that you did not think of mashing Marvel’s latest blockbuster with one of the greatest films of all time, 1939’s The Wizard of Oz. But thank the movie gods, YouTube user and mash-up artist Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey (Alison Brie) and Jake (Jason Sudeikis) meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a Continue Reading

  Which supporting player, looking on enviously as the star of the show receives all the applause, accolades and kudos, hasn’t wondered when they will get their, naturally well-deserved, moment to shine? While it’s hard to know definitively if the Minions, the banana-loving sidekicks to reformed villain Gru in the Continue Reading

  Inside Out, Pixar’s latest transcendent animation triumph, takes us, in the most gloriously poignant and colourful way possible, into the mind of an 11 year old girl named Riley, who is struggling to cope with some pretty major changes in her hitherto untroubled young life, precipitated by her family’s move from Continue Reading

  Movie franchises have a curiously complicated relationship with the moviegoing public. While there is an almost universal desire to see new instalments as quickly as the slow-moving development behemoth of Hollywood will allow – the near religious mania over the upcoming new instalment in the Star Wars saga is evidence of this Continue Reading

  You only have to see one Wes Anderson film to know how literate his filmmaking style is and to realise how much his obvious love of literature influences pretty much every scene that makes it onto the screen. Here is a man not only in possession of some wondrously Continue Reading

  That giggling, red food colouring-powered sound you hear is my inner child doing cartwheels at the the thought of yet more animated films coming our way in the not too distant future (if you consider late 2016 the “not too distant future” which the way time is currently racing past, Continue Reading