SNAPSHOT“…being an architect herself and a passionate film admirer Boryana senses a general gap between cinema and architecture, or in other words, a state where architects simply won’t watch enough film, at least not as phantasmal explorers. So her work is based on extracting floor plans of main character houses Continue Reading
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The short and the short of it: Bugged and a world where anyone can be who they are
Ah, the freedom to be who you want to be! Humans cherish it and so, it turns out, do bugs. Who knew? Doug Alberts I suspect, the creator of Bugged, a short but luminously-realised claymation joy in which bugs live in a natural idyll where they can do their insectorial Continue Reading
“Wrangling space babies was not part of my schedule today!” Video games come alive in Fe@rless
SNAPSHOT“‘Reid, an enthusiastic gamer, levels up to become a full-time babysitter when his favorite superhero video game drops three incredible superpowered babies, from space, into his backyard.’ The Netflix original animated superhero-family-comedy is directed and co-created by Cory Edwards. Vanguard Films and Animation, along with 3QU Media are responsible for the Continue Reading
Movie review: Babyteeth
Grief is often seen as a short-lived but powerful phenomenon, a vehemently chaotic upsetting of the established emotional order than sweeps in, does incalculable damage before receding leaving painfully temporary damage in its wake. People treat it as something that comes after a terrible event, a vicious interlude in the Continue Reading
The hilariously heartwarming glorious joy of A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa #ChristmasInJuly
The Muppets are about as joyful as things gets at the best of times. But how much is the joy factor increased when its Christmastime and Kermit, Fozzy and Gonzo and the gang have to go all the way to the North Pole to deliver some letters to Santa that Continue Reading
Movie review: Love. Wedding. Repeat.
True love is never a foregone conclusion. Most romantic comedies would have us believe there is a delicious inevitability to Cupid’s machinations, but the truth of the matter is that there’s a lot that can go wrong between initial attraction and the happily-ever-after sealing of the relational ideal. Just how Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: “Acorn” goes searching for his place in the world
SNAPSHOTCalArts student Madeline Sharafian, whose work we’ve previously posted, has created Acorn, a short animated film that tells the story of a tiny acorn who was ripped from the loving limbs of a giant oak by strong wind and forced to make his own way to find a place in Continue Reading
A marvellous mini-mass of movie trailers: Summerland, Radioactive, Project Power
Getting to see movies in the cinema this year has proved all but impossible thanks to COVID-19. It still remains the case that seeing movies on the big screen is more difficult than it used to be with cinemas selling a vastly reduced number of tickets due to social distancing Continue Reading
Movie review: The Half of It
Love, of the kind that resides with Cupid, in endless romantic comedies and more than a few Hallmark cards and Valentine’s Day rose bouquets, is a fairly polarising thing. While there are those who sing its praises with lofty, rose-coloured glasses abandon, believing firmly, like Plato, that we are separated Continue Reading
Movie review: Love Sarah
Initially, and this is thanks largely to a trailer which is eager to accent the heartwarming quirkiness of it all, Love Sarah comes across a fey, souffle-light whisp of a film, the kind the British churn out (in the nicest possible way) with the polished efficiency of, well, a well-run Continue Reading