SNAPSHOT“In the twilight of the 1950s, on one fateful night in New Mexico, a young, winsome switchboard operator Fay (Sierra McCormick) and charismatic radio DJ Everett (Jake Horowitz) discover a strange audio frequency that could change their small town and the future forever. Dropped phone calls, AM radio signals, secret Continue Reading
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What makes Chewbacca tick? Looper entertainingly explores his backstory this Star Wars Day #Maythe4thBeWithYou
SNAPSHOTWhy is his weapon so different from almost everyone else’s? Why does he talk like that when he clearly understands different languages? Is Chewbacca his actual given name? We took a deep dive into Star Wars lore to find what makes this Wookiee tick. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Poor Chewie. Continue Reading
COVID-19 self-isolation getting you down? Stress not – Kermit the Frog’s is here to sweetly cheer you up
Kermit the Frog has always the Muppet balm for a troubled soul. And it’s not exaggerating things to say that with COVID-19 troubling a great many souls in some fairly big ways, we need someone as kind, insightful, calm and sweet as Kermit (voiced since 2017 by Matt Vogel) now Continue Reading
Movie review: Onward
If there is one thing that animation powerhouse Pixar is justifiably famous for, it’s the ability to invest its animated features with a metric ton of meaning and emotion in every frame. Films like the Toy Story franchise, UP, Inside Out are so well-loved and highly-regarded not just because they Continue Reading
Magic behind the scenes: The Mandalorian comes to Disney Gallery
SNAPSHOTTitled Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian, the show is billed as “an unprecedented look at the making of the series … each chapter explores a different facet of the first live-action Star Wars television show through interviews, never-before-seen footage, and roundtable conversations hosted by [executive producer] Jon Favreau. Topics this season Continue Reading
SXSW 2020 may not have happened in the real world but you can catch it in the virtual
Many are the events that have fallen to the remorselessness of COVID-19. Keep track of them has become almost impossible unless, you assume as many people have that events are cancelled unless advertised otherwise. While I have yet to make to a South by Southwest event, held each year in Continue Reading
Movie review: Tigertail
There is an exquisitely poignant beauty throughout Tigertail, Alan Yang’s masterfully-realised tale of regret and loss and possible new beginnings, that gives expression, both visually and verbally to the pain we all feel at life’s profound might-have-beens. It is a slow-building pain, one that doesn’t begin to really make its Continue Reading
Comics review: Star Trek: Picard—Countdown
It is a strategy of which, I’m sure, even the legendary Picard himself would approve. A man who happily mixed calculated insight and intuition, compassion and tenacity, whit and whimsy and steely-eyed resolved, Picard, as played by Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: The Next Generation, subsequent movies and recently to Continue Reading
COVID-19 retro movie festival: The Croods #MovieReview
With COVID-19 cutting a swathe through just about everything worldwide, it’s no surprise that cinema is being as affected as anything else. In just one day, one of my favourite cinema chains temporarily closed, the Sydney Film Festival was cancelled, the French Film Festival was postponed and my other favourite Continue Reading
Romance on an hilarious repetitive loop: Love. Wedding. Repeat.
SNAPSHOTIn this innovative romantic comedy about the power of chance, alternate versions of the same wedding unfold as Jack (Sam Claflin) tries to make sure his little sister has the perfect wedding day. But he’ll have to juggle an angry ex-girlfriend, an uninvited guest with a secret, a misplaced sleep Continue Reading