Contrary to what you might think, making an engaging movie about sexual addiction, an issue replete with all the misunderstanding and innuendo in the world, is not the slam dunk easy proposition you might imagine it to be. One goofy step to the right and you’re fair and square Continue Reading
Movies
Poster Me This! [2] – The Counsellor, Thor: The Dark World, Blue is the Warmest Colour, Sweetwater, American Horror Story: Coven
This may date me badly (OK it definitely will!) but I still remember when a movie would come out with one poster and one poster only. And you wouldn’t get to see it till there was space in the “Coming Soon” poster bays at the local cinema, which weren’t Continue Reading
A marvelous massing of TIFF movie trailers #4: Kill Your Darlings, The Double, Can a Song Save Your Life?, The F Word, August: Osage County
Thanks to the recently staged Toronto Film Festival, at which there were more than 300, count ’em people, 300 films screened, there is a lot on offer out there in Trailer Land (no, not a place but it should be right?). If I am ever graced with more money Continue Reading
The Day They Came: aliens invade Nigeria in science fiction short film
You know how it is. You step outside for a quick smoke on what looks like a beautifully sunny day, thinking of nothing in particular, simply happy to be outside. Then you, or in this case a character played by actor Tony Doe, hears a noise, turns around and Continue Reading
To heebie-jeebies and beyond! Pixar’s Toy Story of Terror debuts ahead of Halloween
SNAPSHOT What starts out as a fun road trip for the Toy Story gang takes an unexpected turn for the worse when the trip detours to a roadside motel. After one of the toys goes missing, the others find themselves caught up in a mysterious sequence of events that Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: Mr. Nobody
SNAPSHOT In the year 2092, one hundred eighteen year old Nemo is recounting his life story to a reporter. He is less than clear, often times thinking that he is only thirty-four years of age. But his story becomes more confusing after he does focus on the fact of his Continue Reading
The Seussing Dead: Theodorian whimsy meets apocalyptic gore
I know what you’ve been thinking every time you’ve sat down to enjoy an episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead. Why hasn’t someone rendered the apocalyptic zombie tale into the sort of form that children, and yes, the quirky young at heart, can enjoy? Well wonder no more because Cinepix, Continue Reading
Back where they belong: Mr Peabody and Sherman set to jump back into the zietgeist in 2014
One of the things I remember most fondly from my childhood was getting up just before 6 a.m. (yes voluntarily!) when we were staying at my grandparents’ place in Sydney where they had three commercial TV channels to choose from – it seems laughable now in this digital age Continue Reading
Movie review: Riddick
Riddick (Vin Diesel) who first sprang to violent life in Pitch Black (2000) and its sequel, the rather overblown The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), is a helluva badass kind of guy. How do we know this? Frankly we’re not really allowed to miss it. From the opening moments of Continue Reading
We’re all getting Dumb and Dumber AGAIN!
There’s no rhyme or reason sometimes about which movies I find appealing and which leave me stone, motherless, muffin-deprived cold. Take comedies for instance. I was told over and over that Bridesmaids and The Heat were the funniest movies of their respective seasons, and that not to have seen Continue Reading