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
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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
Movie review: The Last Bus
The English have a welcome ability to make whimsically meaningful films that get right into your heart, which while they may be a little sentimental and comically cute at times, restore faith in audiences that life can be more than a thousand kinds of negatively awful. The more cynical among Continue Reading
So animated! Ice Age Scrat Tales, The Seabeast and Minions: The Rise of Gru
Thank goodness for animation! In a world beset an apocalyptic level set of events from the COVID pandemic to war to climate change to, likely somewhere on the planet, zombie uprisings and aliens (over the top, true, but their existence would certainly fit the dark and dismal spirit of the Continue Reading
Movie review: Spider-Man: No Way Home
Unless you have been sleeping under a great big rock made of some sort of superhero-enervating material, you would have noticed that the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) likes to go big, very, VERY big. That’s hardly a surprise – it’s there in the name, after all. So, the fact that Continue Reading
Movie review: The Adam Project
One of the very worst things you can call any story is “derivative”, a casually poisonous accusation that inevitably coats the object of the derision in colours both inspired and cliched. But as with anything, it’s not the fact that the cliches and tropes are there in abundance that is Continue Reading
Movie review: Turning Red
You would think that, given the chaotic, messy make-up of human nature in general, that as a species, we’d been reasonably au fait by now with the idea that who we are, what we do, and the society we create, won’t always fit into neat and tidy boxes. But … Continue Reading
Traumatic puppyhood and possibly licensed Batman toys abound in the hilarious new clip for Dc League of Super-Pets
SNAPSHOTIt sure isn’t easy being Superman’s dog! Krypto hails from Krypton and has super-powers like his owner; but his social skills are decidedly alien at the dog park and he has no idea how to be ordinary. But when Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and the rest of the Justice Continue Reading
Movie review: Mayfly (Efímera) #Queerscreen
In all of the many and ongoing battles that LGBTQI people have had to wage down the decades to get basic human equality, one phrase in particular has risen to the top, a rallying cry that rightly asserts the equivalency of queer love with its more widely-accepted heteronormative counterpart – Continue Reading