Movies

  We’re off to explore the fantastical, the unusual, the intergalactic, the oddly non-linear in this edition of Marvellous Massing of Movie Trailers with movies that refuse to be bound by the bland, the everyday, the here and now. And the results are quite promising with all five movies featured Continue Reading

  Ever since Charles Darwin handed down his ground-breaking work on evolutionary biology, On the Origin of Species, in 1859, there has been an ongoing debate about exactly what humanity as a whole is capable of. Are we destined to keep evolving to ever higher forms until we reach some, at Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Discover the secrets of the most entertaining and mysterious birds in the global espionage game: Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private now must join forces with the chic spy organization, the North Wind, led by Agent Classified (we could tell you his name, but then… you know), voiced by Continue Reading

  If there is one common thread running through the seeming never-ending spate of apocalypse-themed movies and TV shows of late, it is that it is possible, even as the world is ending, to come across some modicum of humanity, a lingering trace of the better angels of our nature. Continue Reading

  It will come as no surprise to anyone that The Muppets are among the biggest movers and shakers in Hollywood. Safe and sound back on what Walter, new kid on The Muppets block and eager intern in the giddy world of showbiz, refers to as the “Disney Drive-on” (“Where Continue Reading

  There is no denying that Marvel is a modern cinematic force of nature. Through film after stupendously successful, box office-dominating film such as those of Thor, Captain America or Iron Man or the grandaddy of them all The Avengers, the studio begat by Stan Lee’s sprawling comic book empire Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Directed by Jake Paltrow, the dystopian Young Ones takes place in a future that’s almost totally devoid of water, which makes farming a difficult task for hardened frontiersman Michael Shannon and his two children, played Elle Fanning and Kodi Smit-McPhee. Once Fanning’s boyfriend Nicholas Hoult sets his sights 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 Zach (Dane DeHaan) is devastated by the unexpected death of his girlfriend, Beth (Aubrey Plaza). But when she miraculously comes back to life, Zach takes full advantage of the opportunity to share and experience all the things he regretted not doing with her before. However, the newly returned Continue Reading