Stymied dreams are never an easy thing with which deal, bringing with them not only frustration at plans thwarted but also a palpable kind of grief at envisaged possibilities lost. There is a searing, often quietly-expressed, emotional devastation to stories of people caught in an unfinished limbo of their own Continue Reading
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Good is no fun at all. Or is it? Let’s see if The Bad Guys can figure it out
SNAPSHOTIn this action comedy from DreamWorks Animation, based on the best-selling book series, a crackerjack criminal crew of animal outlaws are about to attempt their most challenging con yet—becoming model citizens. Never have there been 5 friends as infamous as The Bad Guys: dashing pickpocket Mr. Wolf (Sam Rockwell), seen-it-all Continue Reading
Time for a VFX breakdown: Paddington 2
SNAPSHOTPaddington is happily settled with the Brown family in Windsor Gardens, where he has become a popular member of the community, spreading joy and marmalade wherever he goes. While searching for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy’s 100th birthday, Paddington spots a unique pop-up book in Mr. Gruber’s Continue Reading
Movie review: The French Dispatch
If you are a fan of director Wes Anderson, it will surprise you precisely not at all that there is a great deal of theatrical whimsicality in his latest film, The French Dispatch, or to give it its full playfully long title, The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Continue Reading
Movie review: Ghostbusters – Afterlife
As memorable catchphrases go, it’s hard to go past “Who ya gonna call?” which is followed, without usually a second’s hesitation, by “GHOSTBUSTERS!” Such is the heady power of nostalgia for this venerable and much-loved franchise, that simply uttering that single catchphrase or sighting the vivid red and white ghostly Continue Reading
Movie review: CODA
Why remake a perfectly good, emotionally resonant film in another language just because you can? It is one of the questions for the ages, and usually is succinctly answered by “There really was no need”, something that could well be said about CODA, a remake of the 2014 film La Continue Reading
You can’t control everything: The official trailer + new poster for Marvel Studios’ 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
Can’t wait to see! Jurassic World: Dominion and The Adam Project
Good lord but I need to escape from reality right now. As the pandemic grinds on and on, and people are either blithely pretending it’s BAU (it’s not – pre-2020 has gone forever, sorry), or carefully stepping out into the “new normal” or choosing to soft lockdown and hide from Continue Reading
Every hero has a beginning … Lightyear debuts an all-new trailer
SNAPSHOTTo infinity and… The 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 is directed by American animation filmmaker Angus MacLane, co-director on Finding Dory, and director of the shorts Toy Story of Continue Reading
Movie review: The Tender Bar
Life has a way, especially in the midst of a neverending pandemic, of making you feel as if no good can ever come from it. Grinding mercilessly and ceaselessly on, it makes demand after demand without once feeling as if it giving anything of much value back ; it is, Continue Reading