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
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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
I spy a new gleefully funny trailer for The Penguins of Madagascar
SNAPSHOT Discover the secrets of the most entertaining and mysterious birds in the global espionage game: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private now must join forces with the chic spy organization, the North Wind, led by Agent Classified (we could tell you his name, but then… you know), voiced by Continue Reading
Movie review: These Final Hours
If there is one common thread running through the seeming never-ending spate of apocalypse-themed movies and TV shows of late, it is that it is possible, even as the world is ending, to come across some modicum of humanity, a lingering trace of the better angels of our nature. Continue Reading
Behind the scenes with The Muppets! (new digital series)
It will come as no surprise to anyone that The Muppets are among the biggest movers and shakers in Hollywood. Safe and sound back on what Walter, new kid on The Muppets block and eager intern in the giddy world of showbiz, refers to as the “Disney Drive-on” (“Where Continue Reading
Movie review: Guardians of the Galaxy
There is no denying that Marvel is a modern cinematic force of nature. Through film after stupendously successful, box office-dominating film such as those of Thor, Captain America or Iron Man or the grandaddy of them all The Avengers, the studio begat by Stan Lee’s sprawling comic book empire Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: The water-starved dystopian drama of Young Ones
SNAPSHOT Directed by Jake Paltrow, the dystopian Young Ones takes place in a future that’s almost totally devoid of water, which makes farming a difficult task for hardened frontiersman Michael Shannon and his two children, played Elle Fanning and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Once Fanning’s boyfriend Nicholas Hoult sets his sights Continue Reading