Movies

  SNAPSHOT Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis) was born under a night sky, with signs predicting that she was destined for great things. Now grown, Jupiter dreams of the stars but wakes up to the cold reality of a job cleaning toilets and an endless run of bad breaks. Only when Continue Reading

  Families of all stripes and sizes are riven by a multiplicity of fracture lines, a reality made starkly evident in August: Osage County, based on the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play of the same name by Tracy Letts. You would want to hope though that there are not Continue Reading

  There is something akin to high ritual to entering the cinema to see another in Peter Jackson’s sumptuously-realised visions of Tolkien’s Middle Earth. You must suitably prepare yourself for another epically-long journey into the wilds of the lands of the dwarves, the elves, the orcs and of course Gandalf Continue Reading

  It is a rare thing indeed to walk away from any movie feeling utterly besotted and charmed, but Frozen manages this act of animated seduction with aplomb, using a winning combination of an engaging storyline with consequences, heartfelt and funny characters, and songs that fairly demand the movie be Continue Reading

  I need to make it very clear from the outset that Sharknado is not one of the 10 movies that most struck a chord with me this year*. Yes I have used it as the title shot of this post but frankly it was all I could do to Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will Continue Reading