If there’s one thing that defines us as a species, it’s a desperate, driving, impelling desire to live … and to do whatever it takes to remain in the land of living when life itself is threatened. It’s a core driver in all kinds of stories but especially in apocalyptic Continue Reading
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Retro movie review: Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey
It is well nigh impossible not to love a movie that features Death aka the Grim Reaper in a dress, Martians that resemble the love children of Ewoks and Cling and Clang from H. R. Pufnstuf and good and bad stoner dude robots of various levels of technological sophistication. Which Continue Reading
It’s going to be epic! Dune releases first trailer
SNAPSHOTA mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, the Dune movie tells the story of Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet), a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family Continue Reading
This is No Time to Die — but to watch a new Bond trailer? Absolutely, yes
SNAPSHOTConfirmed cast members returning for [No Time to Die] include Daniel Craig reprising his iconic role as James Bond for the last time, Ralph Fiennes as M, Lea Seydoux (Spectre), Naomie Harris as Moneypenny, Ben Whishaw as A, with Rory Kinnear as Tanner and Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter. New Continue Reading
Movie review: Missing Link
Among the great animation houses of our time, there are four nearest and dearest to this reviewer’s heart – Pixar, Aardman Animations, Studio Ghibli and Laika, who have gifted us with the inestimable delights of Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, and most recently, Missing Link. Laika, Continue Reading
10 years on, Inception remains Christopher Nolan’s most complex and intellectual film
Daryl Sparkes, University of Southern Queensland Ten years on from its release, and hitting cinemas again, Christopher Nolan’s Inception still puzzles and intrigues. It is one of those films in which you discover something new each time you watch it. Or, more likely, it makes you reinterpret what you thought Continue Reading
Bill & Ted Are Doomed: The most excellent prequel comic to Bill & Ted Face the Music
SNAPSHOTAfter defeating the evil dictator De Nomolos in Bogus Journey in 1995, things aren’t looking as excellent as they should for either Bill and Ted or Wyld Stallyns. There’s tension in the band and worry at home. Bill and Ted’s obsessiveness with writing the one song to bring peace to Continue Reading
The answer is always more? Wonder Woman 1984 asks the question in new trailer
SNAPSHOTRaised on a sheltered paradise known as Paradise Island, when an American pilot crashes on their shores and tells of a massive conflict raging in the outside world, Diana then leaves her home, convinced she can stop the threat. Now a new era of wonder begins… Fast forward to the Continue Reading
Magical vocals: Remembering Disney voice actress Verna Felton
SNAPSHOTTim Nydell of Saturday Morning Rewind pays wonderful tribute to legendary voice actress Verna Felton (1890-1966), whose distinctive timbre was featured in such classic Disney films as Dumbo, Cinderella, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, Alice in Wonderland, and The Jungle Book. Felton also portrayed the original Pearl Slaghoople (Wilma Continue Reading
Movie review: Project Power
Humanity may not be awash in actual mutants or those with special powers – well, not yet anyway; who knows which way the evolutionary cookie may crumble – but the movies we watch certainly are. You can’t enter a cinema (figuratively anyway; literally, it’s a literal trickier in COVID-rampant 2020) Continue Reading