It’s tempting to think of the chaotic world in which we live, and of the people who inhabit it, both current and historic, in starkly binary terms – good and evil, black and white, laudable and not. It helps us make sense of a messy world and it reassures us Continue Reading
Movies
Movie review: Joyride
One of the great weights that hang, albatross-like, around our necks as we go through life, is that things are supposed to happen a certain way. Somehow our collective consciousness as a society has decided that, whatever the circumstance and no matter how individual the experience, we must all go Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: Avatar – The Way of Water, Troll, There There, Sam & Kate + Four Samosas
Hello end of the year! It’s the traditional period in which movies come at us in numbers so considerable that your only option is to camp at your favourite cinema if you want to see them all. Leaving obvious hygiene issues aside, it means that all too often we’re having Continue Reading
Movie review: Bros
Romantic comedies are one of cinema’s most popular genres for a reason. In a world full of banality and ho-hum-dom, where reality can’t really compete with our once-vibrant expectations of late – if this all seems a little bleak, ennui can strike you even if you’ve had a perfectly lovely Continue Reading
#Halloween animated movie review: The Addams Family 2
If you have ever, EVER, felt like a weirdo, an outsider, the strange one, the outlier or the very square peg in a mainstream round hole, then the Addams Family has likely always felt like your freaky home away from home. It makes sense – here are a group who Continue Reading
Movie review: Black Adam
Getting something down to a fine art is one of those glitteringly positive phrases that suggests with effortless ease that you have mastered something to such a degree that you will only ever do it well now and well into the future. Inlaid with this supposition is that if you’re Continue Reading
Movie review: DC League of Super-Pets
Who knew superhero pet owning could be this much fun? Well, co-writer (with John Whittington) and director of DC League of Super Pets Jared Stern who takes a cute idea – what if Superman (John Krasinski) had a dog, Krypto (Dwayne Johnson) who came with him all the way with Continue Reading
It’s been a long year. Who wouldn’t want to have Christmas With You?
SNAPSHOTFeeling career burn out, pop star Angelina escapes to grant a young fan’s wish in small town New York, where she not only finds the inspiration to revitalise her career but also a shot at true love. (synopsis courtesy YouTube) I know, I know, Christmas romantic comedies are, by and Continue Reading
Movie review: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Have you ever felt like you needed a great big cinematic hug? You know why – the day has been terrible or you’ve had a fight with someone you really like or life just seems like a LOT, and all you want to do is to sink into a movie, Continue Reading
A trio of tantalisingly terrific trailers: Matilda, Causeway + Slumberland
Reality is a sneaky thing. Sometimes it’s out there and prominent, unmissable and sometimes undealable with; other times, it disguises itself as fantasy and myth and legend but behind all the bright songs and escapist gossamer gorgeousness it sits there still, waiting for you to discover it and deal with Continue Reading