Movies

  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

  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

  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

  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

  Star Wars is, let’s face it, the granddaddy of all iconic science fiction tales, a “genre defining classic” in the words of Mashable, that must be watched as often as is humanly possible. The only trouble is we’re all so busy these days what with the new Golden Age Continue Reading

  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, jaded by disillusionment, and Casey, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets Continue Reading

  * This post first appeared on An Online Universe * I am a rom-com tragic. (It’s an odd juxtaposition of terms since (a) romantic comedies are supposed to be all Meet Cute to happily ever after ending with only a minor third act detour into sadness of any kind Continue Reading

  There is something pleasingly, imaginatively dark in the drinking water at animation studio Laika, whose latest stop motion release The Boxtrolls (based on the book Here Be Monsters! by Alan Snow) follows in much the same storytelling vein as its previous films Coraline and Paranorman, both of which were firmly Continue Reading

  Ask anyone who’s been an adult for longer than about five minutes if life has ever disappointed them, and the odds are you will get, with varying degrees of emotional candour, a shaking of the head, followed by a prolonged sigh and a knowing glance that suggests the business of living never Continue Reading

  It’s been over a year since we last feasted our eyes on some emotionally-rich, well-told feature length animation from Pixar (2013’s Monsters University) and I feel SAD (I’ve missed their beautiful stories) … And ANGRY (at the wait) … and FEARFUL (there won’t be another film ever) … and Continue Reading