SNAPSHOTA long time ago in living rooms across the US, a bizarre 98-minute Star Wars-themed variety show aired on CBS to an estimated 13 million viewers. It wasn’t necessarily the first of its kind: hosts like Donny & Marie Osmond and Richard Pryor had done TV variety shows with Star Continue Reading
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Movie review: Belfast
All of us, to one fundamental degree or another, have a powerful need to belong. It is often what defines and shapes, and gives us a soul-nourishing sense of time and place, and when it is broken or taken away, we lose an immeasurable part of ourselves. This sense of Continue Reading
No longer the apex predator? Humanity gets knocked down a peg or two in new trailer 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 is set against a global backdrop of diverse locations, with a sprawling story grounded in believable science and Continue Reading
Movie review: Everything Everywhere All At Once
In a cinematic age of sequels, prequels and leveraged, synergised and rehashed IP utilisation, it is beyond refreshing and frankly quite exhilarating, to come across a film that is boldly, unapologetically and mind-blowingly, heart-stoppingly and gut-bustingly funny in its originality. Everything Everywhere All At Once, from the inspired and joyously Continue Reading
A mini mass of movie trailers: Thor: Love and Thunder, Top Gun: Maverick + Benediction
It’s a tale of two blockbusters and an indie. If you want a snapshot of the diversity of today’s cinema, then this is it; sure blockbusters are like the eighty ton gorilla that seems to cinematically stomp over everything, but the well done ones, and let’s hope these are among Continue Reading
Movie review: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
As characters go, Sonic the Hedgehog is a big deal. A staple of Sega’s video game portfolio, Sonic is an an anthropomorphically alien blue hedgehog who, after first emerging in 1991, went on to star in countless games for the franchise, earning the company healthy sales and putting the plucky Continue Reading
You are cleared for hyper launch! Lightyear drops its third and likely final trailer
SNAPSHOTThe definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear, the hero who inspired the toy, Lightyear follows the legendary Space Ranger after he’s marooned on a hostile planet 4.2 million light-years from Earth alongside his commander and their crew. As Buzz tries to find a way back home through space and time, Continue Reading
Movie review: Moonfall
If you thought the days of batshit crazy big, bombastic, sanity-chewing blockbuster epics were well behind us, then please think again. Moonfall, steered by the expansively unedited hand of Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, 2012) is gloriously unhinged proof positive that there is a great deal of mortally-imperilled life left in Continue Reading
Weekend movie poster art: The trippy character intensity of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
SNAPSHOT“‘The Multiverse is a concept about which we know frighteningly little.’ Following the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home and the first season of Loki, Dr. Stephen Strange’s continuing research on the Time Stone is hindered by a friend-turned-enemy, resulting in Strange unleashing unspeakable evil. Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in Continue Reading
Movie review: Sing 2
Pixar has been the main game in the animation town ever since Toy Story came alive in a deserted metaphorical toy room in 1995 and won our hearts with vividly-realised characters, clever, smart, emotionally insightful scripts and visuals so sharply drawn that you swore Woody, Buzz and the others were Continue Reading