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
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Easter festival 2020: Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies
SNAPSHOTThe Easter bunny is ill, Granny needs to find a replacement for him and suggests Bugs Bunny. When she reaches the Warner Bros. lot, she finds to her disappointment that Bugs is tied up in filming Knighty Knight Bugs but offers to work out a solution after filming wraps up. Meanwhile, Daffy Duck, partially overhearing the Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The wonder and renewal of Treasures in the Trash
SNAPSHOTFor 34 years, New York Sanitation worker, Nelson Molina collected items in the trash on his route in East Harlem. Over 45,000 items, all catalogued and organized on the second floor of the M11 garage. Nelson retired from the job in 2015, but comes to the garage routinely to check Continue Reading
COVID-19 retro movie festival: Away We Go #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
Try some COVID-19 social distancing Wes Anderson style
Want to practice safe social distancing? It’s easy: just pretend you’re in a Wes Anderson film. (synopsis (c) Little White Lies via Laughing Squid) There is a gorgeous artistic sensibility to every Wes Anderson film, one that manifests in snappy, quirky dialogue, idiosyncratic visual flourishes and characters who seem to Continue Reading
COVID-19 retro movie festival: Adult Life Skills #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
COVID no more! A mash-up of film and TV clips that playfully address life in a time of pandemic
SNAPSHOT“Here’s a fun little video I cut amongst these strange weird times we’re in.” (producer at Austin, TX post-production house Cut to Black) We live in wild and crazy times. A single powerful virus is currently taking the lives of thousands of people who deserved many more years with their Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The raw, aching longing of Raymonde or the Vertical Escape
SNAPSHOT“Raymonde is really fed up with peas, aphids, dirty panties and her kitchen garden to dig. After all, she would prefer sex, and love, and the immensity of the sky…” Raymonde or the Vertical Escape (also titled Raymonde ou l’évasion verticale originally in French) is a stop-motion animated short film Continue Reading
Weekday pop art: When pop culture and reality seamlessly merge
SNAPSHOTI visit film locations and re-create scenes through the use of a camera & some imagination! …Film has been a huge part of my life since I was small and the passion has only increased as I’ve grown. I’ve always had a thirst for adventure and creativity so it was Continue Reading
Wanna get away from your family? Come join The Willoughbys
SNAPSHOTConvinced they’d be better off raising themselves, the Willoughby children (Tim, Jane, Barnaby A & B) hatch a sneaky plan to send their selfish parents on vacation. The siblings then embark on their own high-flying adventure to find the true meaning of family. The Willoughbys is directed by animation filmmaker Continue Reading