A sense of belonging is an intrinsic part of the human experience. Not everyone wants to admit it of course with many people, for a variety of reasons, doing their best to keep the rest of humanity at bay by fair means and foul. One such person, Rex (Michael Continue Reading
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Weekend pop art: Muppets get their superhero apocalyptic vibe on thanks to JoopaDoops
As a life long Muppets fan, I am most definitely of the opinion that there is very little on this planet that can’t be improved by their presence. Among these many and varied things, are superhero and apocalyptic road movies, two themes that a very talented artist called Justin Continue Reading
Movie review: Hallå hallå
Disa (Maria Sid) is one very disappointed woman. Disappointed by life, by the way a resolute playing by the rules – husband TICK! Kids TICK! Job TICK! Compliant acquiescing to everything expected of her TICK! – seems to be have yielded her nothing but dashed hopes and dreams. Though Continue Reading
Blood red sky: Edvard Munch’s “Scream” comes to life in this brilliant short animated film
SNAPSHOT I was walking along a path with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my Continue Reading
Norman Reedus fights for breath in Robert Kirkman’s Air (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT Air follows two caretakers of a facility specifically set-up to deal with the fact Earth atmosphere is all but destroyed. They’re humanity’s last hope as they release cryogenically frozen personnel from the underground bunker to test out what they believe to be the last habitable place on the Continue Reading
“It’s a Mad Mad Mad Max Fury Road” Oh yes it is, it really, really is!
If you’re anything like me, and you may or may not regret wondering if you are, then it’s probably never have occurred to you to mash up Max Max Fury Road, the latest critically and commercially successful entry in the venerable apocalyptic franchise, and 1963’s road trip comedies to Continue Reading
Movie review: Love & Mercy
In the best of all possible worlds, biopics should be the most personal and affecting of film genres. After all, they tell the story, either whole or in part, of some extraordinary person’s life – their highs and lows, triumphs and defeats, an exemplar of humanity writ large for us to Continue Reading
Schlock horror seafood! Sharktopus vs. Whalewolf
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
Movie review: Paper Towns
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
Oh my Toto! Avengers of Oz: Age of Tinman
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