One of the hits of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Celeste and Jesse Forever is a romantic comedy in reverse. The script by Parks and Recreation Star, Rashida Jones (who also plays Celeste) and Will McCormack, which has earned the pair a 2013 Spirit Awards nomination, plays merrily, and Continue Reading
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Happy birthday to … my favourite fictional celebrities
Right … now … in the interests of complete and utter birthday cake-covered full disclosure, it is my birthday today. And in the interests of making that full disclosure even more plump, I love birthdays. I mean seriously love them in a would-celebrate-them-24/7-365-days-a-year kind of way way. So at Continue Reading
First Look: Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy turn up “The Heat”
I am a huge fan of Sandra Bullock. From the moment I saw her in Speed in 1994, I was totally in love (in a sweet non-stalker-ish way that doesn’t bring on Do Not Approach Orders and doesn’t involve hundreds of photos plastered across a blood-splattered wall in a Continue Reading
Ryan Gosling’s not just a pretty face
Every actor worth his or her salt – are they even paid in salt anymore? Maybe Armani suits? Spa vouchers? Chickens? – craves credibility as a thespian. They may have matinee idol good looks or enough charisma to start a cult (a very pretty cult at that) but while Continue Reading
Movie review: “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”
“Welcome to the island of misfit toys.” With these words, the protagonist of The Perks of Being a Wallflower, written and directed by the same man who penned the critically-acclaimed novel of the same name, Steven Chbosky, Charlie (Logan Lerman) is inducted by Sam (Emma Watson), with the full Continue Reading
We’re off to see “Oz the Great and Powerful”!
Movie trailers can be tricky things to get right. Include too much and audiences will likely conclude, rightly or wrongly, that they have already effectively seen the movie and that there’s no need to mortgage their home and grab a tub of pop corn large enough to level a Continue Reading
Star Trek goes dark
The next instalment in J. J. Abrams’ reboot of the legendary Star Trek franchise – one of the few times where the word “reboot” didn’t mean a needless tinkering with an already impressively executed idea – Star Trek Into Darkness is due to hit theatres in May 2013. Continue Reading
A movie made of rubber bands and jello: Macgyver is headed to the big screen
I know it’s beginning to look like I am hopelessly mired in a day long bout of incurable TV nostalgia, but I couldn’t pass up noting that Macgyver, who could build a nuclear power station out of a cheese grater and a gopher’s discarded front teeth, is on his Continue Reading
Star Wars: a long slow walk in a galaxy far, far away
I have an uneasy feeling that it’s going to be a very long three years waiting for the new Star Wars movie to hit the theatres. Not, I should hasten to add, because I am such an ardent fan of the “galaxy far, far away” that the idea of Continue Reading
More zombies! “World War Z” debuts its trailer
More zombies indeed! Surfing an endless wave of popularity for the undead, who frankly would otherwise have a hard time getting invites to parties, World War Z, starring Brad Pitt, and based on the gripping book, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks (yes Continue Reading