Movies

  SNAPSHOT Dell (Long) and Kimberly (Rossum) meet at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. They’re each there to watch a meteor shower, Fate, and Dell’s big mouth, help strike up a relationship. That’s one of five different stories Esmail jumps between, almost at random, throughout the course of Continue Reading

  Taking a leaf out of Pixar’s book, which has long featured warm, funny and engaging shorts ahead of their feature film releases, Disney has announced that its upcoming movie Big Hero 6 will be preceded by what looks a touching short film indeed, Feast. (To be fair, Disney has Continue Reading

  Let’s be honest – airline safety videos are usually pretty dull, boring affairs, their level of watchability sitting somewhere between a video manual on concreting your own garden gnomes and a travelogue made by boring people of watching paint dry. Most of us either ignore or watch them just Continue Reading

  Dysfunctional families are to indie dramas what spectacular explosions are to blockbuster action thrillers – the bread and butter of their narrative, an indispensable part of their storytelling DNA. There’s nothing wrong with this, of course, since these dramas, with their focus on slowly-unspooled stories and richly-wrought characters who are Continue Reading

  War is hell. That much we know to be true from firsthand accounts, documentaries, books and a seeming never-ending succession of movies and TV series, and in a sad sign that little has changed, from current nightly news broadcasts, all of which speak of its nightmarish horrors, its soul-destroying inhumanity, its Continue Reading

  The brutal shattering of long held perceptions is at the heart of oft Cannes-feted director Ruben Östlund’s latest provocative work, Force majeure, a film which takes a forensic look at the aftereffects of a runaway avalanche on the hitherto picture perfect marriage of workaholic Tomas (Johannes Bah Kuhnke) and his subconsciously Continue Reading