These are not your grandmother’s movie trailers my friends. Un less of course they have a thing for the undead, weird tentacled beasties from outer space, legendary creatures from the dark woods or talking claymation sheep. OK maybe that last one is so scary or deeply unsettling but really Continue Reading
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Batman meets The Incredibles: Pixar’s creation is given a suitably dark, Nolan-esque vibe
I adore pretty much everything Pixar does. Even owned as it is by Disney (who truth be told have lifted their game under Pixar maestro John Lasseter), it remains the most magical, inventive, innovative animation studio there is, able to invest every single one of its films – yes Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The imaginatively dark and quirky claymation art of Evil Corp
Ever since I clapped eyes on the whimsical claymation twosome Wallace and Gromit, I have been enamoured of an artform that requires intense creativity, patience and an eye for detail. You can’t just whip up these figures on a whim – they need a whole lot of time to Continue Reading
Movie review: What We Do in the Shadows
If ever you look around and the glamourously undead denizens of Twilight, Nosferatu, Interview with the Vampire, and yes even the relatively “young” whippersnappers of The Vampire Diaries are nowhere to be seen, then book yourself a ticket to Wellington, New Zealand and you will likely find them, dancing Continue Reading
“Piglet I am your father!”: What if Darth Vader sounded like Winnie the Pooh?
If there are two enduring pop culture influences in my life, that have sustained and delighted over the years in almost equal measure, it is Star Wars and Winnie the Pooh. So with that in mind, you can likely imagine my great delight when I discovered, via Huffington Post, Continue Reading
Movie review: Predestination
A man walks into a bar … No, this is not the beginning of one of those tired old jokes you have heard a thousand times before, and to which there an equal number of groan-inducing punchlines, but the essential starting point for one of the most wildly ambitious, entertaining Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: The Humbling
SNAPSHOT Once an acclaimed thespian, Simon Axler (Al Pacino) has fallen from grace — literally. After swan-diving into the orchestra pit in the middle of a performance, he slides into an intense depression, and quite possibly dementia, leading to a spell in a psychiatric facility. Upon his release he Continue Reading
Movie review: Locke
Bored children kicking the seats of harried parents before them might disagree but a lot can happen in one car journey. It is certainly the case for Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy), the protagonist of Steven Knight’s tautly-delivered drama Locke, a building project manager of nine years experience, who finds Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Make-up artist pays best possible lip service to cartoon charcters
Laura Jenkinson, a supremely creative, über-talented make up artist from London, is a woman after my own heart. Inspired to use her lips as a canvas for all sorts of animated characters, the beauty blogger, after a suggestion from a friend, started with the Minions from the Despicable Me franchise, before going to (‘toon) Continue Reading
My 5 favourite Bill Murray films in honour of his special day at #TIFF
Bill Murray is many things. A veteran comic of 1980s comedy classics like Caddyshack, Stripes and Ghostbusters (1984), and a Saturday Night Live alum (he joined it in its second season in 1977, staying for three seasons in total, becoming romantically involved in his time there with fellow cast Continue Reading