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
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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
Movie review: Ali & Ava
In general, movies have an abiding loud of love wrought in big, loud, bold movements, all meet-cutes and happenstance and colour and joy in letters that stretch to the candy-coloured heavens in neon-lit tones befitting something that is, most people would agree, WONDERFUL. And yes, while, falling in love and Continue Reading
“They’re probably out looking for you right now” … Festive rom-com Falling For Christmas heartwarmingly asks if you really want to be found
SNAPSHOTA newly engaged, spoiled hotel heiress (Lindsay Lohan) gets into a bad skiing accident, suffers from total amnesia and finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner (Chord Overstreet) and his precocious daughter in the days leading up to Christmas. Falling for Christmas is directed by American Continue Reading
Movie review: I Used To Be Famous
There is a tendency for some people to react to stories that look, and it’s the word “look” that’s key here, like everything else that’s ever gone before, like they are the worst possible form of creativity, trading in tired clichés and tropes with nary an original thought to their Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: Enola Holmes 2, They Cloned Tyrone and A Chance Encounter + Behind the craft featurette for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Netflix has just staged its annual big reveal event tudum – the name comes, so says engadget, is “named after the sound that plays alongside the Netflix logo whenever you start watching something on the service” – and among the many shows and movies that got a big unveil or Continue Reading
The rebellion begins: Thoughts on Andor (S1, E1-3)
Star Wars has never been short of weight issues at the core of its storytelling. From the moment A New Hope, then just good old Star Wars before it begat a sprawlingly beguiling franchise, scrolled in memorable yellow and black across cinema screens in 1977, George Lucas’s take of good Continue Reading