Losing someone you love deeply is never, ever easy. No matter how much positive thinkers encourage us to celebrate life, look on the bright side of things, and believe life will go on and be even better than it was before our great loss, the reality is a good Continue Reading
Movies
“It’s just time for us to be in the real world”: The moving trailer for Boulevard, Robin Williams’ final performance
SNAPSHOT In Boulevard, the routine of everyday life quietly peels away to reveal the struggle of a loving husband in conflict with his inner-self. Nolan Mack (Williams) and his wife Joy (Baker) wake up under the same roof each morning, their separate bedrooms underscoring the disparate worlds they’re living Continue Reading
Whistle while you work: Todrick Hall sings his way through Disney’s musical catalogue
If you’re a parent, or frankly anyone closely related to or looking after a child under five – guilty as charged; I’m the happy uncle to four adorable nieces and nephews – there is a better than average chance the only song that has been lodged in your earworm since about Continue Reading
Z For Zachariah: Love and lust in a time of apocalypse
SNAPSHOT In the wake of a nuclear war, a young woman survives on her own, fearing she may actually be the proverbial last woman on earth, until she discovers the most astonishing sight of her life: another human being. A distraught scientist, he’s nearly been driven mad by radiation Continue Reading
Wanna Rock the Kasbah with Bill Murray? Of course you do!
SNAPSHOT Rock The Kasbah is the story of Richie Lanz, a rock manager with a golden ear and a taste for talent, who has seen better times. When he takes his last remaining client on a USO tour of Afghanistan, she gets cold feet and leaves him penniless and Continue Reading
Goofy gets his motoring Jekyll and Hyde on in the 1950 animated short Motor Mania
Goofy has always been my favourite Disney character. There’s something incredibly appealing about his innate, well, goofiness, an innocent, fun likeability that makes him somehow more relatable for me than say Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck. First appearing in Mickey’s revue in 1932, Goofy, described by the good folks Continue Reading
This blog post will self-destruct in … 5 … 4 … Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation debuts new trailer + character posters
SNAPSHOT “Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate – an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF. “Directed by Christopher McQuarrie and produced by Tom Cruise, J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk. The executive producers are David Continue Reading
“It’s the Little Red-Haired Girl, Charlie Brown!”: New trailer for The Peanuts Movie
SNAPSHOT Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the rest of the beloved Peanuts gang make their big-screen debut, like theyve never been seen before, in state of the art 3D animation. Charlie Brown, the worlds most beloved underdog, embarks upon an epic and heroic quest, while his best pal, Continue Reading
Movie review: Inside Out
Have you ever been to see a movie and felt like the filmmaker has somehow managed to peer into your very heart and soul, eerily and yet delightfully channeling everything you’ve ever seen, felt or heard into their cinematic creation? That kind of emotional universality, of readily identifiable insight Continue Reading
May imagination be with you: Craig Davison’s Star Wars art reawakens the child in each of us
I learnt a long time ago how powerful imagination can be. A budding writer from the moment I realised two words could come together with devastatingly brilliant effect, leaving wonderment, thrills, excitement, fear, adventure and a whole host of other authentically real human emotional reactions in their wake, I have Continue Reading