Movies

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  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

  Redemption through repetition. While that vaguely Orwellian sentiment may sound like the sort of thing dreamt up by the propaganda mandarins of Kim Jong Un or the spin doctors of some backwoods cult, it is in fact the thematic heartbeat of Doug Liman’s impressively original time-twisting film Edge of Continue Reading

  For this instalment’s introduction, I adapted ever so slightly (or a lot) the words to a children’s song “Yes we have no bananas” … Yes we have no bananas We have no bananas today [But] we have trailers and trailers Trailers and trailers And all kinds of trailers, and Continue Reading

  “That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.” With these sombre if realistic words, Augustus Waters (Ansel Elgort), witty, confident, winningly-articulate Augustus Waters, encapsulates the bold sentiment that runs unapologetically through both the book by John Green, and now it’s masterfully faithful adaptation by Josh Boone. The Continue Reading