Ryan (George MacKay) and Laura (Alexandra Roach) like each other. They really, REALLY like each other. Having only a met a week earlier in a noisy nightclub when they standing awkwardly side-by-side and, ignored by the bartender, had no real choice but to try and talk to each other. What Continue Reading
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Terrific trio of movie trailers: Holly Slept Over, Premature, Irresistible
Off to the cinema we go again! It’s a brilliantly mixed bad this time around with some fantastical relationship issues given a refresher, a young woman negotiating love and all its complexities and a political drama that makes a series of salient points while having fun doing it. Enjoy … Continue Reading
Movie review: 1917
War is by any measure one of the most evil and nightmarish of things that humanity has ever inflicted on itself. For most of us, those fortunate enough to have been spared the bloody pointlessness of armed conflict, it is a universally acknowledged truth and nothing more; it is only Continue Reading
Movie review: Underwater
Humanity is, in general, not a huge fan of things that go bump in the night or, for that matter, of anything that swims menacingly just out of sight in deep, dark water. And yet, when the siren song of immense profits call, as they do in the William Eubank-directed Continue Reading
What is real and what is not? Alison Brie struggles to tell the difference in Horse Girl
SNAPSHOTIn Horse Girl, Sarah (Alison Brie), a socially isolated arts and crafts store employee, finds herself more content in the company of horses and supernatural crime shows than people. But when a series of strangely surreal dreams upend the simplicity of her waking life, Sarah struggles to distinguish her visions Continue Reading
Ain’t love … murderous? The Lovebirds mixes dating and murder to hilarious effect
SNAPSHOTOn the very brink of breaking up, a couple gets unintentionally embroiled in a bizarre (and hilarious) murder mystery. As they get closer to clearing their names and solving the case, they need to figure out how they, and their relationship, can survive the night. (synopsis via Coming Soon) Every Continue Reading
What was life like for Bo Peep before Toy Story 4? Lamp Life fills us in
When we come across someone we haven’t seen in a while, we intellectually know they’ve likely done a LOT of living since we saw them; it stands to reason unless they spent the intervening period between meet-ups sitting in a dark room humming manically to themselves. (It’s not as much Continue Reading
Movie review: The Peanut Butter Falcon
If there are two things that define us, in the best way possible, as humans it is the need to belong and to feel as if and what we do matter. The two are often though not always inextricably linked with the simple but profound fact of finding our “why” Continue Reading
Everyone’s saying “My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die” … no, really
“My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” As iconic movie lines go, these immortal words of vengeance and loss from The Princess Bride are right up there among the best. How iconic exactly? So famous and suffused through the pop culture consciousness of humanity that Continue Reading
Awww stormtroopers are (alien) cat people too
SNAPSHOTI Miss You is a touching animated short created by artist Henrik Tomenius about a Stormtrooper missing his cute little alien cat who is far, far away. (synopsis (c) Laughing Squid) I’m a Rebel Alliance kind of guy. I want the goodies to win … and the baddies? Well, I want them to be bested, Continue Reading