SNAPSHOT [Night at the Mueum: Secret of the Tomb] starts at the original home, New York City’s American Museum of Natural History, where the vibrant exhibits were discovered after closing time in 2006’s Night at the Museum (2009’s Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian took place in Washington, D.C.). Continue Reading
Movies
Pixar FUNX3: Inside Out (new posters + trailers), Toy Story Time Forgot (new trailer) + what the voice actors really look like
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 Continue Reading
Movie review: God Help the Girl
It was Maria von Trapp herself, the woman whose life story inspired the musical The Sound of Music and who is featured in passing as a sweet visual joke in God Help the Girl, who remarked that “Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart Continue Reading
“Do you want to build a meth lab?” Frozen meets Breaking Bad
* IF YOU HAVEN’T BINGE-WATCHED BREAKING BAD YET THEN … SPOILERS! * Awww Breaking Bad finally has a theme song people and it’s wonderful! It’s all thanks to Frozen, which truth be told, is not the first thing you would associate with Walter White and his ultimately corrupting plan Continue Reading
Good grief Charlie Brown you have new movie images! AND a full-length trailer!
My affection for Peanuts runs long and deep. I can’t, in all honesty, think of a time in my life when Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the whole Peanuts gang weren’t an integral part of my life. The comic strip, which next year turns 65 – I will Continue Reading
Movie review: Living is Easy With Eyes Closed (Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados)
In this age of blockbusters, television events, and reality TV, it is to forget that not all the transformative events in life are writ large for all the world to see. Many things, even the really important things, simply just happen, quietly and out of sight, and no one, besides the Continue Reading
Movies starring movies: They’re not just DVD cases anymore (short films)
Do you ever look at your shelves of DVD movies – at this point I am clearly talking to only people over 25 since I am guessing Millenials would view DVD ownership as somewhat akin to inviting a caveman to draw ochre paintings on a living room wall – Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Pixar is wonderful … and you can quote me, or rather Risa Rodil, on that!
The films of Pixar, from their debut feature film Toy Story (1995) through to their latest release Monsters University (2013), have always inspired a tremendous amount of devotion from their legion of fans (and anticipation with the excitement about next year’s releases Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur reaching Continue Reading
Movie review: A Long Way Down
Anyone who has ever attempted to make a satisfying go of this contrary thing called life will acknowledge that getting it right poses some considerable challenges indeed. It isn’t enough to simply build yourself a lovely house, surround it with a white picket fence, fill it with a partner Continue Reading
Trailers, teasers and posters galore: Minions, Chappie, Into the Woods
MINIONS SNAPSHOT The story of Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s 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. Continuously unsuccessful at keeping these masters–from T. rex to Napoleon–the Minions find themselves without someone Continue Reading