Adapting any story, regardless of its literary source, into a big screen film, especially one with a budget as big as Darren Aronofsky’s Noah, is an exercise fraught with a thousand degrees of barbaric difficulty. No matter how you slice or dice its plots, themes or characters, someone, somewhere Continue Reading
Movies
Oh my! Sci-fi: Trailers + posters for Jupiter Ascending, Edge of Tomorrow, The Signal
This year is shaping up as another banner year for science fiction with a host of releases on the schedule including Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (6 November AU/7 November USA), UK production The Machine (25 April USA), Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Transcendence, The Prototype (date unspecified) and even Continue Reading
Movie review: The Grand Budapest Hotel
It would be tempting to call The Grand Budapest Hotel, writer/director Wes Anderson’s latest gleefully whimsical excursion into grand and imaginative storytelling, the icing on his creative cake, were it not not such an obvious reference to the pastries which are a recurring motif of the film. And yet it’s Continue Reading
Poster me this! Dumb and Dumber To, Orphan Black S2, Blended
They, whoever they are, may be intent on prosecuting poor Bill Posters but the rest of us can’t wait to see what else the master of promotion does next. I will grant you that threats of prosecution usually accompany physical posters on hoardings and buildings and so on but Continue Reading
Let It Go, Frozen Pirate Fairy: 2 impressive Disney musical moments
Frozen, one of the best films Disney has released in years and rightly regarded as an instant animation classic, is everywhere it seems, much like the ice that Elsa (Idena Menzel aka Adele Dazeem), the Snow Queen keeps throwing around throughout the beautiful film. “Let It Go”, the standout Continue Reading
Marvellous massing of movie trailers: Tammy, The Signal, The Giver, Joe, Unbroken + a short film
You look exhausted. Why don’t you sit back a spell, grab some popcorn and check out these trailers for five movies, and one beautiful short, that will make you laugh, think, feel and come alive again in the way that only good cinema come. It’s a mixed bag true Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art: The quirky Disney art of “Nothing’s Impossible!”
A lot of amazing pop culture goodness is available at the annual SXSW gathering in Austin, Texas with a plethora of movies, bands, parties and interactive sessions to take in. Out of the many reports flooding out of this year’s just-concluded event, a post on Mashable about an exhibition Continue Reading
Movie review: Le temps de l’aventure (Just a Sigh) #affff2014
Actress Alix Aubane (Emmannuelle Devos) is a woman adrift in Jérôme Bonnell’s slice-of-life drama Le temps de l’aventure (Just a Sigh). Dashing into Paris by train to attend an audition from Calais where she is performing in what could best be described as an extremely off-Broadway play, she looks to have Continue Reading
FUNx3: Peanuts makes a movie, The Muppets go to work and The Simpsons go LEGO
I have loved Peanuts for a very long time. I can say without any hesitation whatsoever that it is my favourite comic strip of all time -this is in a world where Calvin and Hobbes, Get Fuzzy and a host of other comics have also captured my heart and Continue Reading
Movie review: Lex Beaux Jours (Bright Days Ahead) #affff2014
Engrossing drama is not always made up of epic moments or tectonic shifts in sentiment. In the case of Marion’s Vernoux’s engaging slice of life film Les Beaux Jours (Bright Days Ahead), it’s composed of a series of quiet, if momentously important, events in the life of Caroline (Fanny Continue Reading