Dysfunctional families are to indie dramas what spectacular explosions are to blockbuster action thrillers – the bread and butter of their narrative, an indispensable part of their storytelling DNA. There’s nothing wrong with this, of course, since these dramas, with their focus on slowly-unspooled stories and richly-wrought characters who are Continue Reading
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Movie review: Fury
War is hell. That much we know to be true from firsthand accounts, documentaries, books and a seeming never-ending succession of movies and TV series, and in a sad sign that little has changed, from current nightly news broadcasts, all of which speak of its nightmarish horrors, its soul-destroying inhumanity, its Continue Reading
The Guardians of the Galaxy have never looked more animated!
Looking back, it seems incredible that anyone could have doubted that The Guardians of the Galaxy would become the movie success of the year, sweeping all before it as it powers towards a likely worldwide $800 million box office haul. But as with anything that steps outside the box of Continue Reading
Thanks for the animation memories: Where are all those ’80s cartoon characters now?
It’s hard for any public figure in the midst of their glory days to imagine a time when they won’t be adored, feted or valued beyond measure, when the spotlight will move on to younger, more beautiful souls and they will be left alone in the dark, railing against the Continue Reading
Movie review: Force Majeure
The brutal shattering of long held perceptions is at the heart of oft Cannes-feted director Ruben Östlund’s latest provocative work, Force majeure, a film which takes a forensic look at the aftereffects of a runaway avalanche on the hitherto picture perfect marriage of workaholic Tomas (Johannes Bah Kuhnke) and his subconsciously Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Poster Posse pays beautiful tribute to Big Hero 6
SNAPSHOT Big Hero 6 is co-directed by Don Hall (Winnie the Pooh) and Chris Williams (Bolt) with a script that Jordan Roberts (3,2,1…Frankie Go Boom) co-wrote with the former. Based on the comic book series of the same name, the film marks the first collaboration between Walt Disney Animation Continue Reading
Movie review: Pride
It can be hard to imagine, as the idealists are want to have us do, a world in which people of vastly opposing views come together and get to know one another in a way that transcends trite social niceties, bonding in ways so powerful that real, life-affecting change happens. Continue Reading
Poster me this: Character art for The Hobbit Battle of the Five Armies
SNAPSHOT From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, the third in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies brings to an epic conclusion the adventures of Bilbo Continue Reading
Please look after this bear’s marmalade sandwiches: New Paddington poster
SNAPSHOT From David Heyman, the producer of Harry Potter and Gravity, Paddington is set to be the must-see family film this Christmas. Paddington has grown up deep in the Peruvian jungle with his Aunt Lucy who, inspired by a chance encounter with an English explorer, has raised her nephew Continue Reading
Movie review: Gone Girl
If the institution of marriage is ever looking for a PR agent to burnish its reputation to the world at large, it would do well to avoid the services of one Gillian Flynn. The author of the bestselling book Gone Girl, upon which this beautifully-wrought if emotionally-unnerving adaptation by acclaimed Continue Reading