The Eighties were many things – Hypercolor T-shirts, big hair and shoulder pads – but they were also the era of wildly, escapist blockbusters like Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile, two films which took us on grandly silly adventures, throwing in some romance, derring-do and a Continue Reading
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Legacy of a space ranger: New featurette drops for Lightyear
SNAPSHOTThe sci-fi action-adventure presents the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear—the hero who inspired the toy—introducing the legendary Space Ranger who would win generations of fans. Lightyear features a voice cast that includes Chris Evans, Keke Palmer, Dale Soules, Taika Waititi. Peter Sohn, Uzo Aduba, James Brolin, Mary McDonald-Lewis, Efren Continue Reading
Movie review: Top Gun – Maverick
Dipping back into the well of nostalgia is always a tricky exercise, fraught with the unwelcome peril of finding out those backward-looking rose-coloured glasses you wear obscured one too many unsettling facts, and that perhaps there is truth in the adage that you can never really go back. Faced with Continue Reading
Movie review: C’mon C’mon
Every single film you watch, for better or worse, should be able to take wholly and completely into the world it creates. Sometimes that is not a good thing but in the case of films as luminously moving and meditatively complex as C’mon, C’mon, written and directed by Mike Mills Continue Reading
Weekday movie poster art: Character posters for Jurassic World: Dominion
SNAPSHOTFrom Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, Jurassic World: Dominion immerses audiences of all ages in a new era of wonder and thrills where dinosaurs and humankind must learn to coexist. Jurassic World: Dominion is set against a global backdrop of diverse locations, with a sprawling story grounded in believable science Continue Reading
KAPOW! Blockbustery movie and streaming trailers aplenty – Thor: Love and Thunder, Ms. Marvel and Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1
I love small, intimate, indie, arthouse movies. I also love big, blockbustery films that comes surging off the screen and make you feel as if they have enveloped you; it’s the latter that are getting some serious cinema loving in this post, and after two years plus of exhausting pandemic, Continue Reading
A marvellous mini-mass of movie trailers: Avatar – the Way of Water, Luck + Cha Cha Real Smooth
I am back at the movies! My spirit really never left but with COVID still creating havoc and in-person viewing often off the table over the last two years, actually put my bum into a cinema seat has proved problematic at best and impossible at worst. But over the last Continue Reading
Movie review: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Let’s be clear from the outset – Marvel makes really great, utterly immersive films for the most part. It helps, of course, that they have compelling characters and fantastical premises; but then so does D.C. and they have yet to consistently turn their characters into movies that enthrall and help Continue Reading
“You can’t escape him!” Obi-Wan Kenobi debuts first full trailer
SNAPSHOTThe story in this new series begins 10 years after the dramatic events of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, where Obi-Wan Kenobi faced his greatest defeat—the downfall and corruption of his best friend and Jedi apprentice, Anakin Skywalker, who turned to the dark side as the evil Sith Lord Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Star Wars – Doctor Aphra (Vol. 1-2, issues 1-9) #StarWarsDay #MayThe4thBeWithYou
There is a lot going on in the Star Wars universe (unless, of course, you are on of those people still mourning the killing off of the Expanded Universe in which case it is no longer quite big enough). That is quite possibly because despite catching up with all the Continue Reading