SNAPSHOT A daring new film from internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Carter, Maladies charts the struggles of an unstable former soap opera star in 1960s New York as he tries to restart his floundering creative career. Hoping to find clarity and new purpose as a writer, he holes up with Continue Reading
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Hello Sauron! Looking down at Middle Earth from space
If you watched in awe as a certain company of dwarves and one initially out of his depth Hobbit called Bilbo Baggins rode atop an impressive flock of Thorondor’s Giant Eagles in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, wishing you too could sit aloft these might birds and see Middle Continue Reading
Holy bloopers LEGO Batman! Hilarious LEGO movie outtakes
I love bloopers! LOVE THEM. There is something endlessly enjoyable about watching professionals who get it so right so often forgetting lines, running into walls or simply losing complete and utter track of what they’re doing. And while their inclusion doesn’t work for every movie, there are some films Continue Reading
Movie review: Inside Llewyn Davis
“Everything you touch turns to shit. [You’re] like King Midas’s idiot brother.” This rather pithy character summation, uttered by Llewyn Davis’s (Oscar Isaac) one time married lover (and wife of close friend Jim played by Justin Timberlake) Jean (Carey Mulligan) after another ill-advised life decision by the aspiring 60s Continue Reading
Going above and beyond: New Transcendence trailer and poster
SNAPSHOT Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have Continue Reading
Even more Under The Skin (full trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT Written by Glazer and Walter Campbell, and scored by Mica Levi of Micachu & The Shapes fame, Under The Skin follows Scarlett Johansson’s unnamed alien. She’s been sent to Earth by an alien corporation to prey on unwary hitchhikers. As the official synopsis puts it: “Part road movie, Continue Reading
Join the monsters at Pixar’s Party Central!
If the impending wonderment and hilarity of Muppets Most Wanted wasn’t enough, we have the inordinate pleasure, and yes even more hilarity, of a new Pixar short in the form of Party Central, featuring the gang from Monsters University. Originally scheduled to screen before The Good Dinosaur before its Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art: The imaginative subway drawings of October Jones
Have you ever watched a cartoon or TV show or movie and wished, really wished, that the figures would come crashing through the screen and inhabit the comparatively dull real world with you? Granted The Simpsons, Looney Tunes and a whole host of TV show and movie characters have Continue Reading
Valentine’s Day movie review: Are We Officially Dating Yet?/That Awkward Moment
Are We Officially Dating?, the first feature from writer/director Tom Gormican, and otherwise known as That Awkward Moment pretty much everywhere but Australia for some reason (had they already shipped the prints?), is a valiant attempt to remake the romantic comedy in the image of men. Which means that Continue Reading
Happy Valentine’s … er … Constantine’s Day #MuppetsMostWanted
But all is not lost! Miss Piggy is as determined to make it a day of love and Kermit-ness as ever in this adorable “Kissy! Kissy!” clip … Post by The Muppets. But wait there’s more! Miss Piggy has also been kind enough to come up with 17 Continue Reading