SNAPSHOT When a young boy falls ill, his grandfather pops round to visit him. To cheer his grandson up, Grandpa has brought a storybook; The Princess Bride, a tale of the love between the beautiful Buttercup and the besotted Westley, a love cruelly interrupted by Westley’s tragic apparent death Continue Reading
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Movie review: The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
Allan Karlsson (Robert Gustafsson) likes to blow things up. It doesn’t really matter where or when – at one point he fights against Franco’s forces in the Spanish Civil War simply so he can hear things go “Boom!”; his allegiance is to the explosion and only the explosion such Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Rocket and Groot (Guardians of the Galaxy) find new life in inspired fan art
It’s clear by now that Guardians of the Galaxy is a phenomenon. Back on top at the U.S. box office, and benefiting from strong word of mouth and stellar reviews, this is the movie that keeps on keeping on, the film that dared to play hard and fast and Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: Two Night Stand
SNAPSHOT A no-strings-attached, online hook-up turns into a morning-after disaster for twenty-something New Yorkers Megan (Analeigh Tipton of Crazy Stupid Love) and Alec (Miles Teller of The Spectacular Now and Whiplash). When a paralyzing blizzard hits the city trapping them in Alec’s cramped Brooklyn apartment, they are forced to Continue Reading
Movie review: Begin Again
Begin Again, the latest ode to music’s power to change lives from the director of Once, John Carney, is a pleasingly deceptive movie. Taken on surface value alone, it is a sweet and charming story – in the world of the movie musical these are not pejoratives but rather badges of honour, Continue Reading
Rap like an Animal: The Muppets want to know “So What’cha Want”?
If The Muppets, in all their glorious sweet hearted hilarious lunacy have taught us anything, apart from the fact that a good aggro drum soul is de rigeur for any song (thank you Animal), it’s that there is nothing they cannot do. NOTHING. They have performed in an old Continue Reading
Guardians of the Galaxy: Here’s a whole lot more to love about this brilliant movie
Guardians of the Galaxy is a phenomenon. Released just under two weeks ago in the USA, it has already taken in approximately $175 million domestically, with similar success overseas, it has taken everything we thought we knew about Marvel’s unarguably successful superhero films, all of which march to a reasonably similar Continue Reading
RIP Robin Williams: From Mork and Mindy to Dead Poets Society and beyond, you will be remembered
Robin Williams was an amazing man. Bursting into my childhood in the late 1970s via the colourful sitcom, Mork and Mindy (1978-1982), in which he starred as a manic, over the top alien with a penchant for eggs, learning about his new home Earth, and the eventual love of Continue Reading
Marvellous massing of movie trailers: Horns, The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies, Maze Runner, Interstellar, Predestination
We’re off to explore the fantastical, the unusual, the intergalactic, the oddly non-linear in this edition of Marvellous Massing of Movie Trailers with movies that refuse to be bound by the bland, the everyday, the here and now. And the results are quite promising with all five movies featured Continue Reading
Movie review: Lucy
Ever since Charles Darwin handed down his ground-breaking work on evolutionary biology, On the Origin of Species, in 1859, there has been an ongoing debate about exactly what humanity as a whole is capable of. Are we destined to keep evolving to ever higher forms until we reach some, at Continue Reading