MOVIE SYNOPSIS The bitter fight for supremacy between a school’s most popular girls takes an unexpected turn when Tanner (Michael J. Willett) becomes its first openly gay student. As they race to bag the big trend in fashion accessories, the Gay Best Friend, Tanner must choose between skyrocketing popularity Continue Reading
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LEGO toys around with “Iron Man 3”
We are a mere week away – a week my friends! – from Iron Man 3 blasting onto our cinema screens and LEGO have joined the promotional fray with their playful interpretations of already released movie posters. There will of course be a specially designed line of building blocks, Continue Reading
Movie review: “Oblivion”
Is it possible to be alive and yet not truly be fully conscious of who you are? Or to lose some crucial part of yourself on the journey through life and not even be aware of it? These rather grandiose but nonetheless basic questions are at the heart of Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “Stuck in Love”
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
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