SNAPSHOT Trainwreck is directed by Judd Apatow from a script he co-wrote with comedian Amy Schumer. The film follows a complete basket case (Schumer) trying to rebuild her life with her new boyfriend (Bill Hader) best friend and parent in tow. The cast also includes Brie Larson, Mike Birbigla, Continue Reading
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Movie review: Kingsman – The Secret Service
Depending on how you look at it, we live either in a cynical age stripped bare of boundless unquestioning faith in pretty much anything, or one in which everything is gloriously fair game, a postmodern scrambling of all that has gone before in which nothing can be viewed except through Continue Reading
Hello Scarlett Overkill: Sandra Bullock gets her own posse of Minions (trailer + photos)
SNAPSHOT The story of Minions begins at the dawn of time. Starting as single-celled yellow organisms, Minions evolve through the ages, perpetually serving the most despicable of masters. After accidentally killing off so many of them—from T. Rex to Napoleon—the Minions find themselves without a master to serve and Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: Like Sunday, Like Rain (post #1500)
SNAPSHOT Surrounded by wealth and living with abundant resources in Manhattan, 12-year-old cello prodigy and all around genius Reggie (Julian Shatkin), lives a solitary, bookish life lacking only frequently absent parents and friends. Estranged from family, having slacker boyfriend troubles, and fired from her waitressing job, sometimes musician 23-year-old Continue Reading
I am Mr Tickle (d) pink! Mr Men and Little Miss to get a big screen adaptation
I have always love the Mr. Men and Little Miss characters of Roger Hargreaves (now drawn by his son Adam). Created in 1971 by the British author, whose first character Mr Tickle, my personal favourite, was inspired by his son asking him what a tickle would look like – Continue Reading
Chomp! Jurassic World gets a giant dinosaur-sized new trailer
Ah humanity! No matter how many “bombs” explode in our face, or how often the darker angels of our nature rise up to shake us with their fury, we somehow fail to see the great big elephant of hubris standing in the room, the one that warns us time Continue Reading
Movie review: Into the Woods
If you think postmodern tinkering with the classics is simply a 21st century internet-accelerated phenomenon, then Into the Woods, both musical and now big screen adaptation, is proof positive that the mixing of old style storytelling and modern telling-it-like-really-is moralistic sensibilities goes back a lot further than that. In Continue Reading
“Ted, do you believe you have a soul?” Yes, and a poster and trailer too.
ted is not for everyone, I will grant you that. Sprung forth from the creative loins of Seth McFarlane, the man who gave us Family Guy and American Dad, all packed to the gasp-inducing rafters with more weird journeys into the twisted parts of his imaginative psyche than we actually knew Continue Reading
“What if there was a place where nothing was impossible?”: New Tomorrowland trailer
SNAPSHOT From Disney comes two-time Oscar winner Brad Bird’s riveting, mystery adventure Tomorrowland, starring Academy Award winner George Clooney. Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank (Clooney), jaded by disillusionment, and Casey (Britt Robertson), a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to Continue Reading
There’s no need to be afraid of Myrna the Monster (short film)
Love isn’t easy … for anyone really. Imagine though how much harder it must be when you’re a young kidnapped alien from the moon, all alone on earth with no one for company, your only activities playing the recorder in the trash, holding up ad signs for fried chicken shops Continue Reading