It’s a cold, cruel world out there, where friendship and companionship can be the difference between making it and losing everything all alone. That was a true back on the American frontier in the eighteenth century as it is now, something that First Cow, the latest film by writer and Continue Reading
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Movie review: Love and Monsters
Who knew the apocalypse could be warm and funny? They are not, as a general rule, things you would normally associate with the end of the world which is characterised by lots of running, screaming, death, destruction or in the case of epidemics and such, lots of deadly, infectiously awful Continue Reading
All that glitters is undead? The cleverly soundtracked new trailer for Army of the Dead
SNAPSHOTArmy of the Dead takes place following a zombie outbreak that has left Las Vegas in ruins and walled off from the rest of the world. When Scott Ward (Dave Bautista), a displaced Vegas local, former zombie war hero who’s now flipping burgers on the outskirts of the town he Continue Reading
Say “Hi!” to the friendly neighbours there … Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (poster and trailer)
SNAPSHOT[Street Gang], which inspired by Michael Davis’ New York Times best-selling book of the name, chronicles the improbable origins and expansion of the groundbreaking show that not only changed children’s television programming, but had real-world effects on equality, education, and representation worldwide. The doc features more than 20 interviews with Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: We Broke Up, The Mitchells vs. The Machines, Drop Everything and Run
Ah, movies how we love thee! You give us all kinds of escape from the mundanity of everyday life and we are all the richer for your presence in our lives, especially when pandemics seem to go out of their way to make reality even bleaker than it is normally. Continue Reading
Movie review: Supernova
A lot of visual storytelling has conditioned us to the idea that big emotional moments happen in a music-soaring, climactic ways that dominate everything around them. But the truth is that in real life, life-shattering life events often happen quietly in the limbo period between dawn and the day or Continue Reading
Second life art: New York artist explains why he paints pop culture icons into discarded old paintings
SNAPSHOT“It came to me at a thrift store. I wanted to take something that had been forgotten and change it in a way that didn’t affect its aesthetic and to see if that, in and of itself, would make it wanted again.” (artist Dave Pollot via Laughing Squid) Op shops, Continue Reading
Movie review: Godzilla vs. Kong
Humanity is rather fond of its position as the metaphorical king of the castle on planet earth. It informs how we treat the planet (poorly), each other (just as poorly) and our view of just about everything that comes across our path, with the general view being that we can Continue Reading
Movie review: The Big Hit (Un triomphe) #AFFrenchFilmFestival
Can art liberate you? It’s a big question but one with a great deal of rich humanity at its heart in the Emmanuel Courcol-directed film Un Triomphe / The Big Hit, which asks if it possible for art to liberate the spirit when the body has no choice but to Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Monday, Oxygen, Just Say Yes
Love and fear are in the air! Sound like a weird mix? Not in this post which showcases trailers for two romantic comedies and one film which takes claustrophobia to a whole other place none of us really want to go to … EVER. My recommendation? Watch the scary one Continue Reading