SNAPSHOT Anger rages in Philip (Jason Schwartzman) as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley (Elizabeth Moss), and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Continue Reading
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Weekend pop art: Books, movies, music and TV shows re-imagined with LEGO
Is there nothing that LEGO cannot do? On the basis of The LEGO Movie, countless LEGO playsets and countless hours I spent as a child building everything from mansions to spaceships and boats out of the endlessly useful Danish coloured blocks, I would have to say a big hearty Continue Reading
Marvellous massing of movie trailers: Three upcoming cinematic tales of love
Love comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes. The delicious all-encompassing wonderfulness of falling headlong, deeply and completely in love. The unfailingly strong bonds of lifelong friendship. And the sometimes strained, often dysfunctional but usually steadfast love that holds every family together. While this is by no means Continue Reading
Movie review: Ida
Ida, a starkly beautiful black and white film from director Pawel Pawlikowski, begins much as it means to go on – in austere, almost confronting, silence. In the snowy depths of a brutally cold 1962 Polish winter, three novice nuns, a week away from taking their final vows, are quietly Continue Reading
Total cinematic immersion: The fun of watching the first 5 minutes of 10,000 movies in just 5 minutes
Pressed for time? Wondering how you will get through that mountainous, teetering pile of movies banking up on your PVR? Despairing of ever discovering how Jim the bike courier (Cillian Murphy) survives the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse in 28 Days Later or, curious whether the path of true Continue Reading
Take another dive (or two) into the whimsical world of The Boxtrolls (new trailers)
SNAPSHOT The Boxtrolls are monsters who live below the streets of Cheesebridge, who crawl out of the sewers at night to steal what the townspeople hold most dear: their children and their cheeses. Or so the townspeople have always believed. In truth, the Boxtrolls are a community of lovable Continue Reading
20 years gone: The new trailer and poster for Dumb and Dumber To
SNAPSHOT Dumb & Dumber To is directed by Peter & Bobby Farrelly (Dumb & Dumber, There’s Something About Mary) and written by Sean Anders & John Morris (Sex Drive, She’s Out of My League), Mike Cerrone (Me, Myself & Irene) and Bennett Yellin (Dumb & Dumber). Jim Carrey and Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Lesa Lehtimäki’s brilliant photo-realistic LEGO homage to Star Wars
If you’re thinking that LEGO is still just for kids, you may want to check out the impressive work of Finnish photographer Lesa Lehtimäki a.k.a. Avanaut on Flickr, which proves that big kids can have just as much fun playing around with the famous Danish export of colourful interlocking Continue Reading
Movie review: The Trip to Italy
There is no doubt that Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are one of the funniest odd couples to ever take a tour of Italy, or anywhere on earth for that matter. The Trip To Italy, Michael Winterbottom’s follow up to the pair’s gastronomic, quip-laden, and philosophically ruminative journey through Continue Reading
Someone has to be The Keeper of Lost Causes (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT Following a shootout that left his two partners respectively dead and paralyzed, chief detective Carl Mørck (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) is assigned to the newly established Department Q, a department for old, terminated cases. The department consists only of himself and his new assistant Assad (Fares Fares). Although they Continue Reading