Movies

  SNAPSHOT From the tepuis of South America to a monster-filled metropolis, Academy Award®-winning director Pete Docter has taken audiences to unique and imaginative places. In 2015, he will take us to the most extraordinary location of all – inside the mind of an 11-year-old named Riley. Growing up can Continue Reading

  You might not think there would be much of a silver lining in being knocked over the parapet of a bridge into the Seine River in Paris, sustaining a broken pelvis and shattered leg and waking up in a hospital room that sees more foot traffic than a rush Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Marvel Studios presents Avengers: Age of Ultron, the epic follow-up to the biggest Super Hero movie of all time. When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, including Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow and Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT “Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings – some good, some bad – and he will rely on his heart and soul Continue Reading

  Grief is a most peculiar thing. While its effects are reasonably universal no matter who you are, how it manifests itself is a different as each person cursed to live through its torturous, soul-eviscerating cycle of loss, sadness, regret and loneliness, an unpalatable reality of being that Belgian director Vincent Lannoo captures in a charmingly Continue Reading

  Time is a cruel mistress/master/old man with a scythe and not much in the way of new opportunities past a certain point, an often less than palatable fact of life that formed the centrepiece of the charming British comedy with a message The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012). In Continue Reading

  It will come as no surprise to anyone that movies often significantly depart from the books upon which they are based. That doesn’t necessarily mean they are a diminished form of the story; simply different. Some authors, however such as J. D. Salinger and Roald Dahl, most certainly thought the movie adaptations Continue Reading

  Food, water and shelter aside, one of the most basic needs a person can have is the one to belong. Whether we are conscious of it or not, or even admit to its existence,  all of us are looking for a group of likeminded people we can call family, Continue Reading

  I have no doubt that the upcoming Jurassic World film, which features Chris Pratt as velociraptor-wrangling, Indian Jones-arua emitting, dinosaur DNA-fiddling averse hero-in-the-making Owen Grady will be a tour deforce of edge-of-your-seat prehistoric thrill-making. And I am also fully convinced that the dinosaurs that will fill the film, from said Continue Reading