MOVIE SYNOPSIS Three years past his divorce, veteran novelist Bill Borgens (Greg Kinnear) can’t stop obsessing over, let alone spying on, his ex-wife Erica (Jennifer Connelly), who ignominiously left him for another man. Even as his neighbor-with-benefits, Tricia (Kristen Bell) tries to push him back into the dating pool, Continue Reading
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Can’t wait to see: “The Way Way Back”
FILM SYNOPSIS THE WAY, WAY BACK is the funny and poignant coming-of-age story of 14-year-old Duncan’s (Liam James) summer vacation with his mother, Pam (Toni Collette), her overbearing boyfriend, Trent (Steve Carell), and his daughter Steph (Zoe Levin). Having a rough time fitting in, the introverted Duncan finds an Continue Reading
“Warm Bodies” (movie review)
Life is a tricky thing. Wondrous yes but profoundly difficult to navigate at times and that’s if you’re alive and completely aware of who you are and what makes you, you. R (Nicholas Hoult), who we meet at the start of Warm Bodies, a film written and directed by Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “Only God Forgives”
MOVIE SYNOPSIS (via AFM): Julian, an Englishman living in Bangkok, is a respected figure in the criminal underworld. He and his brother Billy run a Thai boxing club which is in fact a front for smuggling drugs to London. When Billy is murdered, their mother Jenna arrives from London Continue Reading
Domo arigato “Pacific Rim” robotos (5 amazing robot posters)
MOVIE SYNOPSIS When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which Continue Reading
And for my next trick … books into movies! Ta dah!
* this post originally appeared on writingbar.com It’s a process almost as old as cinema itself – taking a much loved book and giving it a new lease of life on the big screen. L Frank Baum’s first Oz novel for instance, The Wizard of Oz, released in 1900 (and the first book Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art #1: You will want to eat up these pop culture characters
Hungry for more and more of your favourite pop culture characters? It is not usually a literal craving – chomping down on a DVD is neither practical, healthy or recommended from a dietary perspective – but now it can be thanks to these imaginatively realised food renderings of all Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “L’écume des jours” (“Froth of the Daydream”)
L’écume des jours, the latest film from acclaimed French film director Michael Gondry, and starring the woman who must surely be regarded as France’s sweetheart, Audrey Tautou (whom I have loved and adored since her star turn as the elfin Amélie), looks like being the most deliciously quirky movie Continue Reading
Movie review: “Une Estonienne à Paris” (“A Lady in Paris”)
When we first set out on this adventure called life, very few of us expect to near its middle or god forbid, its end, marooned in time, far from the idealistic expectations of youth. Certainly neither Anne (Laine Mägi) nor Frida (Jeanne Moreau), two very different women separated by a continent Continue Reading
Movie review: “Oz the Great and Powerful”
Oz the Great and Powerful, directed by Sam Raimi (Spiderman), and based on the books of L. Frank Baum, was always going to be, at least to a certain extent, a victim of nostalgia. While it is effectively a prequel of sorts to the iconic and much-loved 1939 MGM Continue Reading